News - OLPC unveils ambitious XO-3 tablet PC

[HEXUS]

With the XO-2 scrapped, the One Laptop per Child organisation looks forward to a radical design on course to debut in 2012.

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[TheAnimus]

This is what I intend to have for a girlfriend in 2012, notice the physically attractive nature.

I think I have more chance of obtaining that than the OLPC have their goal.

[MadduckUK]

calling in an airstrike?

[HW_90]

calling in an airstrike?

he's not planning an airstrike, he's finding the place where it would have the most drastic effect if they nuke it.

[Dreaming]

Even if it's hopelessly ambitious to provide a sub $100 almost-indestructible-touchscreen-laptop to every child in the world, they are certainly pushing the boundaries. When I was growing up we had a crappy analogue TV with no remote, where it had discrete buttons for each channel.

The future is certainly here whether we have realised it or not. A computer in everyone's pocket, instead of schoolbooks, instead of radios/tv/friends...