One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to provide every child in the world access to a modern education. Today, OLPC has announced its product road map to deliver innovative design and robust laptop performance for use in most poor, remote and rural communities and at the lowest cost and power in the industry.
Founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child, Nicholas Negroponte said that the XO, the first version of OLPC’s child-centric laptop, is a revolution in low-power, low-cost computing. It has been distributed in 35 countries and in 25 languages and to more than 1.4 million children. OLPC will continue to innovate in performance and design to fulfill their aim of reaching 500 million children in all remote corners of the planet.
Yves Behar, designer has revealed his latest concept design for the now-aiming-for-$75 vision, and it is all screens. The XO-3 is an 8.5 x 11 touchscreen, coupled with a camera in the back and a little folding ring in the corner for grip. Use Palm Pre-style induction charging to keep things minimal the plan and less than a watt of power to keep an 800MHz processor and a Pixel Qi screen powered.
Nicholas Negroponte said if he was a commercial entity coming to you for investment, and he’d made the projections he had in the past, you won’t invest again, but they are not a commercial operation. If they only achieve half of what they are setting out to do, it could have very big consequences.
He also said that the XO-1.75 (replacing that psychotically awesome 2.0 dual screen model) will make its appearance in early 2011.
