Pictures : New Ultra Cheap OLPC Concept Laptops From XO
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The new OLPC designs have been dreamt by a little known firm called Fuseproject whose founder, Yves Behar, believes that a $75, colour, semi-flexible, touchscreen computer can become a reality within the next three years. He told Forbes that "I wanted to bring the One Laptop Per Child(OLPC) identity to life in this new form," before adding that "That meant taking the visual complexity away, bringing tactility and friendliness, touch and color." The project is not...
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