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Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool
“Think about it. Turning pages. How ridiculous that is. It’s just unbelievably dumb,” said Nicholas Negroponte, describing the benefits of reading in bed on a tablet, and getting a big laugh from the audience at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2010. Negroponte described a scenario where your companion can fall asleep on your shoulder while you read a […]
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50% of One Laptop Kids in Peru Are Teaching Their Parents How to Read & Write.
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, said on stage today at the Techonomy conference that “50% of the kids in Peru who use One Laptop Per Child are teaching their parents how to read and write.” That’s seriously disruptive, isn’t it? Peru is one of the most supportive countries of the […]
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OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity"
viralMeme sends in a piece from OLPC News featuring a video interview with Pixel Qi’s Mary Lou Jepson. The interview goes over some of the improvements in the company’s extremely power-eficient screen technology that will show up in the next generations of the OLPC. The article links a video side-by-side comparison among Pixel Qi, Kindle, […]
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New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop
griffjon writes “The new hardware release (you can read about the upgrade here) also comes with a dual-boot option. Start rejoicing now; it’s not XP or Sugar (the native, education-centric OS) — it’s Sugar or Gnome. And of course there are other homebrew distributions like Xtra Ordinary, built off of Debian.” Read more of this […]
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Ivan Krstic: Sweet nonsense omelet
So there I was, basking in the warm California sun, enjoying the gentle jets of the hot tub, and generally doing pleasurable things that don’t involve thinking about my old job. (New job: fucking awesome. Old job: awesomely fucked.) But then I get an e-mail from a friend, who saw on Slashdot that Engadget reported […]
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OLPC Software To Power Aging PCs
Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child project can now be used on any old PC. Sugar on a stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a new interface and access to collaborative educational software. The software, designed for use by children, was launched […]
