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  • #olpc

    OLPC XO-3: An Impossible $75 Fantasy Tablet I Want to Believe In

    The dual-touchscreen XO-2 was a fantastical concept. But it's nothing on OLPC's XO-3, a hot, messy wet dream of a tablet: All semi-flexible plastic, multitouch, backlit and reflective ereading modes, thinner than an iPhone and $75. More »
  • #stevejobs

    Steve Jobs Helped Negroponte With the OLPC Laptop

    Talking at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday, One Laptop per Child's founder Nicholas Negroponte said that Steve Jobs helped in the development of the OLPC computer. Wait. What? More »
  • #rumor

    Is The Crunchpad Dead?

    The Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Mike Arrington's vision of an affordable Crunchpad web tablet is dying due to higher-than-expected costs. More »
  • #obits

    Rest In Peace, Ridiculous Dual-Screen OLPC XO-2

    It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2, would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped. More »
  • #displays

    8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens

    Innovating is hard! But there's one trick that can pull any engineer right out of that rut: the extra display. Here are eight of the most surprising, audacious, and weird places ever to be graced with a display panel. More »
  • #olpc

    Pedal-Powered OLPC Tested in Afghanistan: Free Power (and Killer Calves) For All

    OLPC's Give One Get One initiative has delivered around 11,000 XO-1 laptops to Afghanistan schools alone. But power is a problem when you get off the grid, so the team there has had to think outside the box. More »
  • #olpc

    Microwaved OLPC Gets Molded Into a Scary Sushi Slug

    Kenny Irwin is an artist with a strange medium—microwaved plastic. His latest creation started out as an OLPC, but ended up looking like a slug made out of sushi. Did I mention that you could actually own this thing? More »
  • #review

    Kindle DX Review

    Kindle DX is the true heir to the Kindle throne, but whether Amazon's ebook kingdom is growing or shrinking depends on the next wave of books—textbooks. In the meantime, bigger screen, cool new tricks... More »