Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Negroponte Unveils 2nd Generation OLPC Laptop: It’s an E-Book

Computing, Hardware, Education Wade Roush wrote: I’m “live blogging” from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation’s day-long media event at the MIT Media Lab. The big news is that OLPC founder Nicholas Negrponte has just unveiled the design for the foundation’s second-generation laptop, which isn’t really a laptop at all but a double-screened, fold-up electronic book. Below are some shots of Negroponte’s presentation taken with my iPhone. (Negroponte says high-resolution versions are available an