Thursday, May 27, 2010

XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming from OLPC in 2010

Per Nick Barber via PC World:
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project founder Nicholas Negroponte said that the organization is accelerating its development of the XO-3 tablet computer and will have a working prototype by December 2010, two years ahead of projections. Negroponte said the final product would cost US$75.

"At CES [2011] we will show a tablet that can be and will be used for children probably in the developed world," Negroponte said Tuesday during an interview at the MIT Media Lab, the lab he founded. "It will allow us to start testing many of the things that combine a laptop, an iPad and a Kindle."...
A bit more from Ubergizmo.