What is OLPC?
The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop" - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
The first notebook model, the OLPC XO, has started to be rolled out to the first third-world countries in November last year. In the US and Canada, the first OLPC laptops could be ordered via XO Giving until December 31, 2007. You can have a look at Sugar, the machine's user interface...on You Tube (see the links below)
The mission of this non-profit association (One Laptop Per Child) is to develop a low-cost laptop - the "$100 Laptop" - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Their goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
The first notebook model, the OLPC XO, has started to be rolled out to the first third-world countries in November last year. In the US and Canada, the first OLPC laptops could be ordered via XO Giving until December 31, 2007. You can have a look at Sugar, the machine's user interface...on You Tube (see the links below)
OLPC Sugar video 1 - synthLab demo hosted on YouTube
OLPC Sugar video 2 - mini Tam Tam demo hosted on YouTube
OLPC Sugar video 3 - social features demo hosted on YouTube
OLPC Sugar video 4 - interface emulation demo hosted on YouTube
Webpage: http://www.olpc.com/
Orders: xogiving.org - Buy your own OLPC XO laptop (& give one - Buy One Give One! And it looks like you can still place orders on this webpage, but the price to pay using Pay Pal shows up costing $200 for one laptop to be donated - maybe back in 2007 they were $100? must read more...)
Orders: xogiving.org - Buy your own OLPC XO laptop (& give one - Buy One Give One! And it looks like you can still place orders on this webpage, but the price to pay using Pay Pal shows up costing $200 for one laptop to be donated - maybe back in 2007 they were $100? must read more...)
Note: Hits Australia soon first & then sometime 2008 is suppose to hit the USA too!
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