OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops

sl4shd0rk writes "Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC project are still going and have a new plan in the works: a laptop air-drop to help facilitate 'self-education' in areas with large poor populations. 'In the first year we'll go in and meet with tribal elders and aid organizations, people not involved with education, but then we let the kids learn,' Negroponte said. All of this work by Negroponte and others was essential, he explained, because market forces were leaving the poor of the world behind. Meanwhile, the largest countries had adopted strategies that offer little for the developing world."

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Unlike the Ipad2

[Lumpy]

"They are water resistant, very durable and can be dropped from 30 feet without breaking."

Whereas an iPad2 must be used in a very dry environment, even high humidity will make it die, insanely delicate, and can develop a screen crack or shatter if it was placed on a table hard or dropped 6 inches onto deep shag carpet.

The iPad1 is a far superior product to the iPad2 in durability. Whoever though making the screen glass thinner was a idiot.