All the stories tagged with olpc
OLPC XO-4 Arriving This March
01/08/2013, Let us take a breather from the slew of CES news as we bring you word of other interesting tech goings-on. Case in point, did you know that there will be the OLPC XO-4 that is tipped for a release [...]
XO-3 Tablet Shelved, XO-4 In The Pipeline
12/03/2012, It was nearly one year back when One Laptop Per Child started to parade a tablet that was specially designed to deliver low-cost touchscreen computing capability to folks worldwide, with students as their main target. The idea of the XO-3 [...]
OLPCs hacked by Ethiopian kids on their own in 5 months
10/31/2012, While I find it nigh impossible to believe that leaving a typewriter in the room with a bunch of monkeys would eventually see one of the Bard’s sonnets typed out (an experiment was run in the past to debunk such [...]
One Laptop Per Child XO 3.0 tablet to be showcased at CES 2012
01/07/2012, [CES 2012] Remember back in 2009 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced that it would be introducing a low-cost tablet, the XO 3.0? Well the tablet was supposed to go in production in 2010, and then was announced as delayed [...]
OLPC uses helicopters to drops tablets in isolated villages
11/03/2011, Anyone who has worked with tribal and aboriginal people groups would know that they more often than not live in highly inaccessible areas, where you will need to trek by hours or days on foot, swim through a river or [...]
OLPC XO-3 to include solar charging and satellite Internet?
07/20/2011, The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program is not quite done with their XO laptop project just yet, and while we know that the XO-3 tablet will be delayed because of the desire to include a superior display into the [...]
OLPC delays XO-3 tablet to make sure better screen is thrown into the mix
11/03/2010, The OLPC has decided to delay their upcoming XO-3 tablet computer by more than a month, arriving only in February 2011 because they wanted the display to be flexible enough for it to be more resistant to breaking – although [...]
Marvell delivers $5.6 million grant to One Laptop for new tablet computer
10/04/2010, The One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC) as well as Marvell have further strengthened their relationship with the latter offering OLPC with $5.6 million in order to fund development of its next generation tablet computer. The money will be used [...]
OLPC XO laptop offers multi-touch support
07/08/2010, OLPC recently announced that it aims to improve its next generation XO laptop (so there will be another model in the works after all) by throwing in a touchscreen display that supports multi-touch, something that every decent touchscreen-enabled devices these [...]
OLPC XO 1.5 offers optional Sugar OS interface
06/16/2010, The Sugar OS interface was originally meant to make the use of the OLPC XO laptop easy to use, it isn’t something that most folks are used to the moment they turn on said laptop. After all, there is a [...]
OLPC heading towards XO-3 tablet computer, working prototype in 2010
05/27/2010, The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project could soon have yet another offspring, this time round it will be known as the XO-3 tablet computer where founder Nicholas Negroponte is proud to announce that a working prototype ought to be [...]
OLPC XO-3 tablet concept
12/22/2009, Tablets could very well be the next big thing, but the industry is taking its time if they’re in a so-called transition phase. OLPC has toyed around with a tablet concept of their own, known as the XO-3 where it [...]
XO Tablet PC Coming?
11/03/2009, Most of you thought that the XO OLPC would be succeeded by the XO-2, dual display laptop, right? Well, it appears that the idea has been binned, in favor of an XO tablet computer, and taking into account the popularity [...]
