Photo reblogged from knick/knack
Do you remember the one laptop per child project that was all the rage a year or two ago?
It’s coming closer to a reality, and this is the laptop that will cost $75 and looks better than your Macbook.
It’s going to be released in 2012.
Yves Behar, FTW. A year or so behind schedule but the second iteration is sure to be an impressive debut. Technology aside, let’s not forget the social and cultural barriers affecting the introduction of such a device. But given the turbulence of the last release, I’m sure OLPC will pull through.
Frankly I’m shocked to see these guys having problems. I mean, a brand new hardware design, a new screen technology, a customized Linux operating system, a one-off user interface, and the customers are the poorest nations in the world, and they’ll be paying with government money which means they have to get politicians to vote on orders, and they’ll have to place huge orders with no pilot programs, and the kids will have these things tossed in their laps and be expected to write code and do all their own maintenance, and the whole project will be run by woolly academics who have never even worked in a real company let alone run one. What could possibly go wrong?
-FSJ
Source: pragerd
