OLPC (one laptop per child) is an organisation which want to provide children in developing countries with access to knowledge and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves". Therefore OLPC is distributing the XO-1, an inexpensive, robust and optimized laptop computer. It has small but good tactile keys. Fortunately, some people already work on solutions to make this device and it's software accessible for blind and otherwise handicaped persons. For this reason they have set up a mailing list with a public archive. At the moment, Hemant Goyal from India is working on the integration of speech synthesis in the Sugar environment. He is accepted for Google's summer of code 2008.
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| - OLPC (one laptop per child) is an organisation which want to provide children in developing countries with access to knowledge and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves". Therefore OLPC is distributing the XO-1, an inexpensive, robust and optimized laptop computer. It has small but good tactile keys. Fortunately, some people already work on solutions to make this device and it's software accessible for blind and otherwise handicaped persons. For this reason they have set up a mailing list with a public archive. At the moment, Hemant Goyal from India is working on the integration of speech synthesis in the Sugar environment. He is accepted for Google's summer of code 2008.
- The OLPC is often cited for its innovation. These include:
* Having a keyboard with the letters arranged in such a way that words can be typed in many languages.
* The screen can be read in direct sunlight just like mobile phone screens.
* It has Wi-Fi which means for the first time a laptop can be connected to another computer without wires for the exchange of informations.
* It is green in colour to make it un stealable. (when was the last time you hear of a green car being stolen?)
* It uses a solid state hard-drive meaning that it will never ever corrupt, just like USB memory sticks.
* You can recycle it into two tea trays just by snapping it in half at the hinge.
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| - OLPC (one laptop per child) is an organisation which want to provide children in developing countries with access to knowledge and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves". Therefore OLPC is distributing the XO-1, an inexpensive, robust and optimized laptop computer. It has small but good tactile keys. Fortunately, some people already work on solutions to make this device and it's software accessible for blind and otherwise handicaped persons. For this reason they have set up a mailing list with a public archive. At the moment, Hemant Goyal from India is working on the integration of speech synthesis in the Sugar environment. He is accepted for Google's summer of code 2008.
- The OLPC is often cited for its innovation. These include:
* Having a keyboard with the letters arranged in such a way that words can be typed in many languages.
* The screen can be read in direct sunlight just like mobile phone screens.
* It has Wi-Fi which means for the first time a laptop can be connected to another computer without wires for the exchange of informations.
* It is green in colour to make it un stealable. (when was the last time you hear of a green car being stolen?)
* It uses a solid state hard-drive meaning that it will never ever corrupt, just like USB memory sticks.
* You can recycle it into two tea trays just by snapping it in half at the hinge. The laptop is called OLPC/XO, where XO stands for skull and bones, since the machine is intended to be used by starving children (just like Wikipedia). So it's not a coincidence that the machine can be easily converted to a toaster.
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