We might have heard about OLPC, which stands for One Laptop Per Child.
Is an idea started by an MIT media lab engineer, which purpose is to educate every children in the world, especially developing nations to use a computer, to express themselves, and to connect to the internet.
as in november 2007, this gadget is already in mass production, and Uruguay is already the first nation to mass deploy the laptop.
This Laptop, which is also called XO-1 laptop, can be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. Pricing is currently set to start at US$188 and the goal is to reach the $100 mark in 2008.
But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology.
High durability thanks to thick plastic design, and membrane keyboard.
It has a newly developed LCD screen. which can be read in direct bright sunlight.
Specially designed wireless internetworking, the laptop can direct connection from other XO.
It uses only 2 Watt of power on average, compared to 15 watt of average laptop.