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Computers
Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2
7:18AM John Herrman | It has always been an unspoken fear — or assumption, even — that the dual touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today. The XO-2 is officially scrapped. More »
Computers
Pedal-Powered OLPC Being Tested In Afghanistan
12:50AM Danny Allen | OLPC’s Give One Get One initiative has delivered around 11,000 XO-1 laptops to Afghanistan schools alone. But power is a problem when you get off the grid, so the team there has had to think outside the box. More »
Design
Microwaved OLPC Gets Moulded Into A Scary Sushi Slug
4:00AM Sean Fallon | Kenny Irwin is an artist with a strange medium—microwaved plastic. His latest creation started out as an OLPC, but ended up looking like a slug made out of sushi. Did I mention that you could actually own this thing? More »
Software
Sugar On A Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
6:58PM John Herrman | While it’s probably not very practical for typical day-to-day laptop use, the Sugar Linux desktop environment, designed for the OLPC project, is a novel take on user interfaces. Now, Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick, a version of the OS that is designed to boot, run and save data from and on a USB drive. [Techradar] More »
Computers
11:24AM Nick Broughall | Sure, for gadget nuts like you and me, the XO OLPC may not quite have the grunt to be usable, but for the poor, indigenous communities out in the middle of the Northern Territory, it’s fantastic. And a couple of days ago, the first OLPCs were officially handed out to Aboriginal primary school children at Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, Northern Territory. More »
OLPC Hits Indigenous Australia
11:24AM Nick Broughall | Sure, for gadget nuts like you and me, the XO OLPC may not quite have the grunt to be usable, but for the poor, indigenous communities out in the middle of the Northern Territory, it’s fantastic. And a couple of days ago, the first OLPCs were officially handed out to Aboriginal primary school children at Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, Northern Territory. More »
Computers
India Buys 250,000 OLPC Laptops After Own $US10 Laptop Project Didn’t Quite Work Out
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | In a bit of an about-face, India has placed a huge order for 250,000 OLPC XO laptops for their schools. This is a huge victory for the OLPC project. More »
Screens
Pixel Qi 3Qi Magic E-Paper and High-Res LCD Dual Display Becomes Real Next Month
1:29AM Matt Buchanan | The display technology Pixel Qi has been promising is revolutionary: A high-res colour LCD and low-power, reflective reader mode better than E-ink. For dirt cheap. And it’s coming next month. More »
Computers
OLPC to Ditch Old Friend AMD for ARM-Based Processors
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Despite being an original sponsor of the OLPC project, AMD processors will not be used in the upcoming XO-2 touchscreen netbook. Instead, in an interesting move, ARM chips will take on the computing load. More »
Computers
Intel Classmate 2 Already For Sale, Priced at $550
7:50PM John Herrman | Intel’s Classmate 2 was never intended for manufacture by Intel; the PC was simply a reference design provided for OEMs. Well, the first one is here: meet the Computer Technology Link 2Go PC. More »
Computers
10:00AM Nick Broughall | The OLPC movement rode a rollercoaster of fun disaster danger when it decided to try and give away a unit to kids in need for every unit sold to US customers last year. Now that rollercoaster ride is coming to Australia.
If you purchase an OLPC laptop, you’ll also be donating another unit to a child in need in outback Australia or the Pacific Islands. According to the website, this deal kicks off on November 30 and will only run until December 31, so get your orders in sooner rather than later.
For some reason, the OLPC is still priced in US dollars, with GST chucked on top of that, which is a kind of dodgy way of doing it, if you ask me. Still considering they’re actually making an effort to try and chance the world one laptop at a time, I suppose we can forgive them.
You can order your OLPC at Laptop.org for $US399 plus GST from November 30.
[Laptop.org] More »
OLPC Brings Give 1, Get 1 Promotion To Australia
10:00AM Nick Broughall | The OLPC movement rode a rollercoaster of fun disaster danger when it decided to try and give away a unit to kids in need for every unit sold to US customers last year. Now that rollercoaster ride is coming to Australia.
If you purchase an OLPC laptop, you’ll also be donating another unit to a child in need in outback Australia or the Pacific Islands. According to the website, this deal kicks off on November 30 and will only run until December 31, so get your orders in sooner rather than later.
For some reason, the OLPC is still priced in US dollars, with GST chucked on top of that, which is a kind of dodgy way of doing it, if you ask me. Still considering they’re actually making an effort to try and chance the world one laptop at a time, I suppose we can forgive them.
You can order your OLPC at Laptop.org for $US399 plus GST from November 30.
[Laptop.org] More » 
