One Laptop Per Child News

At the MITX What’s Next Forum and Technology Awards last night in Boston, Nicholas Negroponte was inducted into the MITX Innovation Hall of Fame. Did anyone care? Who knows. Everyone was too busy playing with the first working model of the $100 laptop.

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Silicon Valley Sleuth has an epic scoop. They have video of Red Hat engineer and Mozilla Corporation board member Christopher Blizzard demonstrating the first OLPC working prototype, and now, courtesy of Google Video, you can watch it below:

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Technology in development guru, Ethan Zuckerman has an amazing write up of the "Orange" prototype he was able to tinker with today. And I have to agree with him, it is cute:

The current prototype is little, orange, and very, very cute. It has a molded plastic handle and looks remarkably like a Speak and Spell.

Still, I have many technical questions that he's not able to answer, the screen being one he admits to being stumped at too:

The screen in the current prototype is a conventional LCD screen - the screen in the production devices will be roughly the same size, probably slightly larger than the 7.5″ screen in the prototype, but will be based around a technique that doesn’t require white fluorescent backlight. (Many of the questions I need to answer for the IEEE article concern the screen, as it’s one of the most expensive and power-hungry components of the machine.)

Yep, power-hungry, delicate, expensive, hard to repair, and of course somehow readable in daylight.

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