Nicholas Negroponte at TED.
June 27th, 2008 Jeremy Hogan
Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations:
- runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power
- powerful mesh networking capabilities
- dual mode display (works in direct sunlight)
- open source Flash player
- addictive/intuitive UI (easy as a game controller, instantly view the source for any app)
- give one, get one
The whole idea is completely powered by community and the democracy of technology. Plus, it’s created a commercial spin off for the manufacturer, and the next version looks like an iPhone sammich. Mmmmmm MM!
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