Update: Wired 14.08: The Laptop Crusade

Xinyu Liu liuxinyu95 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 03:07:24 UTC 2006


Greate!

Just my own opinion, I still want the outlook of 100$ laptop likes the one
dipicted by
Alan in 1972.
http://san-diego.siggraph.org/sigkids/dynabook-kids.gif

Since it is expected to help all the children around the world, especially
in developing
country. It must support multi-launage. Almost all kids will only use their
own native
language. I think a hand-writing recognition touch screen is more important
than a
keyboard. It's straightforward for a child to trasfer his experience with
pencil and paper
to a touchpane.

Most children like colorful things, I still remember how I was joyful when I
got a set
of watercolor pens in school. (there were only 12 kinds of color). So I
don't like the
monochrome screen of this design.

Cheers.
Liu.

On 8/10/06, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
>
> About the 100$ laptop (not much about software, still in the hw design
> stage).
>
> quote "In January 2005 MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte
> unveiled the One Laptop Per Child project, an initiative to design and
> distribute an ultracheap, lightweight, and intuitive portable PC to poor
> children throughout the world, at the World Economic Forum. The project
> called for a highly ruggedized machine equipped with radio antennas for
> networking in the absence of satellites or towers; a dual-mode display
> that shifts to monochrome in bright light; and a way for generating power
> that facilitates indefinite operation without an electrical outlet. Among
> those invited to design the laptop was fuseproject owner Yves Behar, who
> suggested a compact and sealable form factor that, in his words,
> "shouldn't look like something for business that's been colored for kids."
> An earlier version of the laptop featured a handcrank to generate power,
> but this was eliminated after it was determined that gripping the crank
> with one hand and the laptop with the other would cause the machine to
> shake, placing excessive strain on the hardware. The latest version of the
> laptop, priced at about $140, features a kid-friendly design and colors
> that deter theft; a hollow handle that holds a shoulder strap; built-in
> VoIP and Skype; 802.11b/g antennas with a range of half a mile; custom
> batteries with a five-year lifespan; LEDs in place of a fluorescent
> backlight; a rubberized plastic shell to absorb shocks; 512 MB of flash
> memory and 200 GB of storage through a mesh-networked server; a 366 MHz
> processor and 128 MB of RAM; a bare-bones version of Redhat Linux; a
> seamless touchpad that allows handwriting and drawing; and the ability to
> swivel to ebook mode. Behar designed every laptop component to be
> multifunctional: For instance, the computer's antennas are movable "ears"
> that can swivel down to shield the laptop's ports.
> " unquote.
>
> - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html
>
> /Klaus
>
>
>
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