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2007

November 30, 2007 A First Look at One Laptop Per Child's PC; Is Leopard the New Vista?; Our Top 10 Unlocked Phones; and More

Enlarge This Image A children’s laptop, equipped with a camera and wireless communication ability.

Monday 24 September 2007 Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
By STEVE LOHR
One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
...Mr. Negroponte, the founding director of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, views the problem as a temporary one in the long-term pursuit of using technology as a new channel of learning and self-expression for children worldwide.
“Give 1 Get 1,” in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399

Sunday 29 July 2007 The $100 laptop is fast becoming a reality
BACK at the dawn of the personal-computer era, in the late 1970s, millions of future programmers around the world got their first taste of writing software by using an ingenious little computer that cost less than $100 (about $240 in today’s money).

EPAWonder toy

To save power, for instance, the XO’s liquid-crystal display (the biggest consumer of juice in a laptop) can be flipped from backlit colour to self-reflecting monochrome. That not only saves electricity, but helps the screen to be seen better in bright sunlight, where many XOs are likely to be used.

The number crunching is done by an AMD Geode processor running at a modest 433 megahertz, compared with the 2-3 gigahertz of conventional laptops. This processor allows the XO to use less energy and therefore generate much less heat. Result: no power-consuming cooling fan.

Computers for all (sr)

Design the Computer

• Mobile Latop to plug into a desktop Monitor or TV
• block downloading new software from the web. Only from head office want new pgm ...ask headoffice

  Build computer

• Google

  Pay for it

• Gold watch part of retiremrnt package
• Childern of

  Board / advisors

  Bert, Tyler, Ratzer, GlenGoucher, Wife

  Links

  google Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop per Child OLPC Foundation
  The vision video 18:00

  Using a giant table-like display, users are able to draw, interact with media, and use another new technology called domino tagging, in which a real-life object on the computer's surface is identified and becomes an on-screen object that can be interacted with.

  Computer of the Future multi touch or try

  more multi touch | atomfilms.com

  Second Life
  01/30 -  University is about to get a lot more interesting for those who pursue their studies online. While traditional correspodence courses offer students little interaction, a program being offered at Loyalist College in Ontario promises to make that virtually different.
  (Runs 02:29)