I finally feel some energy returning after my eye injury about a month ago, although my right eye remains dilated which still means that side is a bit out-of-focus and I don’t like driving at night. I feel like I need to give a status update or some such. So here goes. Winter Camp With luck my...

In an early test of the OLPC XO in Nigeria, the student users dropped every laptop several times a day. Despite the laptops' rugged construction, they occasionally needed fixing, and a group of six-year-old girls opened up a "hospital" to reseat cables and do other simpler repairs. Mary Lou Jepson, ...

As the One Laptop Per Child project scrambles to revitalize itself after numerous setbacks, staff layoffs and dismal sales, it could find the footing it needs to survive by playing to its product's hidden strength as a low-priced, take-it-anywhere e-book reader. The OLPC's XO Children's Machine is s...

Indian Government has unveiled plans to produce a $10 laptop as part of a government sponsored education scheme.  As per R P Agrawal, the laptop should be available within 6 months. The laptop will have 2 Gig memory and Internet connectivity and run on a Linux flavor. $939 million have been earmark...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 GB of RAM, wired Ethernet, and Wi-Fi and probably will run Linux. The laptop initiative is part of India’s National Missio...

Well, our interest was certainly piqued by that OLPC XO-2 mockup that surfaced yesterday, and now the Guardian is saying that the hardware development will take place open source. This is certainly fitting with the company's idealistic ethos, and it'll be interesting to see what other companies brin...

OLPC, Education, Computing Robert Buderi wrote: For those inspired by Nicholas Negroponte’s vision of bringing affordable computing to every child on the planet, it was a sad day early this month when the One Laptop Per Child Foundation he founded announced it was laying off half its staff and...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/OLPC_2_0_dual_touchscreen_mockup_surfaces_in_the_wild'; What we're staring at here is apparently the first "in the wild" shot of the promised dual touchscreen OLPC 2.0. As far as we can tell (thanks, Mr. Blurrycam), we'd wager this is a purely non-working mockup,...

One Laptop Per Chewbacca writes "Nicholas Negroponte, the leader of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has announced that the fellowship will be laying off half of its staff, cutting salaries of the remaining employees, and ending its involvement in Sugar development. The auspices has had seri...

Those of you who live in the States have probably seen tons of OLPC ads lately. The charity organization is looking for new money streams to bring more laptops to developing countries. After trying to get people’s attention with a rather controversial - yet effective - ad in which childrenR...