2009-12-24

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) -- XO-3: A Super-Thin Super-Cheap Tablet PC

clipped from www.wired.com

XO-3 Concept: A Crazy-Thin Tablet OLPC for Just $75

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One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC, or the XO, was a flop however you look at it. Instead of just making a cheap, basic machine that could tough it out in its target third-world market, Nicholas Negroponte’s supposedly $100 laptop instead chose to both patronize and confuse with an over-simplified interface. At the same time, as the price rose and dates slipped by, the Rise of the Atom put cheap netbooks within reach of anyone with a few hundred bucks.

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The $75 Future Computer

clipped from www.dailymotion.com
clipped from gizmodo.com

OLPC XO-3: An Impossible $75 Fantasy Tablet I Want to Believe In


The dual-touchscreen XO-2 was a fantastical concept. But it's nothing on OLPC's XO-3, a hot, messy wet dream of a tablet: All semi-flexible plastic, multitouch, backlit and reflective ereading modes, thinner than an iPhone and $75.

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Children with the XO
Children with the XO
Children with the XO
Children with the XO
Children with the XO

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Sources:
  1. XO-3 Concept: A Crazy-Thin Tablet OLPC for Just $75 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
  2. The $75 Future Computer - Forbes.com
  3. Dailymotion - OLPC - un vĂ­deo de
  4. OLPC XO-3: An Impossible $75 Fantasy Tablet I Want to Believe In - Olpc xo-3 - Gizmodo
  5. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a low-cost, connected laptop for the world's children's education
Related:
  1. BBC News - In Pictures: Designing the OLPC
  2. Yves-Behar-designed $75 One Laptop Per Child tablet: Too good to be true? - Core77
  3. OLPC Plans Super-Thin, Super-Cheap Tablet - PC World
  4. OLPC XO-3: An impossible $75 fantasy tablet | Crave - CNET
  5. OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in -- Engadget
  6. OLPC shows off absurdly thin XO-3 concept tablet for 2012 (update: XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 coming first) -- Engadget