OLPC's UI To Be Kid-Tested In February

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 1, 2007 @06:38AM from the nice-day-in-the-neighborhood dept.

dfoulger writes "The AP is reporting that kid testing of Negroponte's '$100 Laptop' starts in February. This article is some of the first mainstream coverage of just how different the user interface of the XO Computer is — it ditches the traditional office metaphors in favor of a 'neighborhood' and an activity-based journaling approach. Video of Sugar, as the UI is called, has been out on the net for a while, and Popular Science recently gave the color / monochrome display a 'Grand Award' in its 2006 technology roundup. What do you think of this new UI?"

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Re:URL Bar by Nazgul_Cro · 2007-01-01 07:33 · Score: 5, Informative

There IS an url bar. It is just hidden behind the title bar. When you click on title bar, you can type regular URL.
Too bad the video does not show it, it actually misleads a lot of people in thinking the same way you did :)