One Laptop Per Child Now Comes in Tablet Form (Core77)
One Laptop Per Child and manufacturing partner Marvell have announced their
new XO-3, a ruggedized tablet meant to withstand the rigors of both vigorous
children and the developing nations in which they’ll be used. I’m digging both
the integrated rubber border and the peelable elastomer screen cover, which
flips around to cling to the back of the machine when it’s in use.
Chief designer Yves Behar has released a design statement on the project:
> After 6 years of design development with Nicholas Negroponte and the non-
profit organization he founded, One Laptop Per Child, I am incredibly excited
to share the next generation XO-3 tablet. More than 2.4 million children in 25
countries received the original XO Laptop, and these kids have been our
inspiration to create the next generation of this educational tool.
>
> One Laptop Per Child is a technology story about how to provide low-cost
educational tools to millions of children. For those children, and for us, it
is also a creative story about how to design specifically for young students.
Every decision made by the OLPC engineering team and the design team at
fuseproject has been about adapting technology to …
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