The philanthropic organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC) never quite managed to hit its price point for its "$100 laptop," but now the organization is sketching a concept for a $75 tablet computer that it hopes will further decrease power consumption and pioneer the first flexible LCD display. "A tablet computer holds some practical advantages.
Because the keyboard is presented as touch-screen display, like those on the iPhone and iPad, there's no keyboard for a kid to break. Equally important for an organization hoping to reach kids in remote corners of the world, a tablet also allows unlimited customization of keyboards for minor languages and dialects. The existing XO ships with any of 17 different keyboards, but that's hardly enough; India alone has 33 languages."
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Monday, June 7, 2010
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