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OLPC's XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming In 2010

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the price-is-right dept.

itwbennett writes "During an interview Tuesday at the MIT Media Lab, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte said that the group will have a working prototype of the XO-3 tablet by December of this year. 'At CES [2011] we will show a tablet that can be and will be used for children probably in the developed world,' Negroponte said. 'You'll see from us, God willing, an ARM tablet,' he said. 'The screen area will probably be a 9-inch diagonal, maybe more.' The most important feature will be a dual-mode display that will allow it to be used indoors and outdoors. Price: $75."

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  1. Great , Now The Starving Children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    can Twitter for food!!!!

    Queue the OLPC Prototype of X-Device coming in 2011, 2012, and so forth to 2204.

    P.S. Nationalize British Petroleum and donate The Queen's and the Bush Crime Family shares to OLPC !!

    Yours In Astrakhan,
    Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

     

  2. Bound to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    'You'll see from us, God willing, an Arm tablet,'

    Jesus already created the iPad

  3. Re:What's the problem with keyboards? by SydShamino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously they should keep the keyboard and eliminate the screen then, right?

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  4. Re:Only two problems ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1 - If it'll only be done 'god willing', then we have a problem because there is no god.

    are you implying that, if it happens then there is a God? :)

  5. Re:What's the problem with keyboards? by jedidiah · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Obviously they should keep the keyboard and eliminate the screen then, right?

    Actually use an iPad for awhile and get back to us.

    Those screens quickly get mucked up.

    Even the drones at the Apple store will freely admit this while they tell you that they don't have any screen covers. ...makes you wonder if Starfleet is like Monk when it comes to hand washing.

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  6. Growing things by zooblethorpe · · Score: 3, Funny

    keyboards can't grow with children's hands!

    I dunno, if they can grow human ears on the backs of mice, I don't know why it wouldn't be possible to grow a keyboard together with a spare set of hands, or find a way to grow hands out of a keyboard.

    Potentially kinda kinky, though. I'm not sure I want to think too much about where you'd go with that.

    Cheers,

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    "A four-foot prune."