One Laptop Per Child
January 11, 2008
Today while I was doing research for my Final Project, I stumbled upon this unusual yet amazing website. The address http://laptop.org belongs to a non-profit organization called One Laptop Per Child, program initiated by the MIT and designed by renowned industrial designer Yves Béhar. It’s mission, to develop low-cost ($100) laptops for children in developing countries.
A slideshow of how the program got started can be viewed here www.dcontinuum.com
The thing that amazed me the most is the great design of the laptop itself, it looks nicer than a lot of high-end computers in the market, showing us that you don’t need a lot of money to generate great design, sometimes all you need is a cause.
By the way, you can emulate their OS by going to this link: Emulating the XO I haven’t tried it yet, but I will when I have some free time.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Yeah I found this last year sometime while I was checking out Richie’s Blog. Pretty sweet idea and I think you even get a laptop yourself if you donate or something.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Yeah, they have a program called “give one get one”