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OLPC’s XO-2 to be open source hardware
crunchgear.com - 1/30/2009
OLPC’s XO-2 to be open source hardware
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Good news from the One Laptop Per Child program: the successor to the ambitious, but ultimately outmatched XO laptop will be open source hardware. Hopefully that will encourage adoption, imitation, and customization, leading the XO-2 to be hopefully more of a success than the XO. Nicholas ...
The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project?
blog.makezine.com - 1/29/2009
The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project?
— blog.makezine.com — This is pretty much the biggest news of 2009 - I am going to email the OLPC folks confirm, but according to this article - The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project ... Just to recap what that means... the source, the schematics, ... (more) The new OLPC XO-2 will be an open source hardware project?
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Daily Tech: The Second Gen XO Laptop to Be Open Source
GeekSugar — ... Pics of OLPC's new XO laptop have been spotted in the wild, and it has just been announced that it will be completely open source. - CrunchGear ...

OLPC BFFs VIA; AMD SOL
CrunchGear — ... , open-hardware OLPC 2.0 is still riding unicorns in Narnia, the OLPC 1.5 is quite real. And according to the project’s hardware guy, it’s going to be more of the same — but better. They’re upping the storage space, brightening the screens, and replacing the old AMD processor with a shiny new VIA C7-M. ...

PixelQi’s 3Qi display is LCD, e-paper, and high-contrast monochrome all in one
CrunchGear — The OLPC project, Hydra-like in its many initiatives, has given birth to a new project, focused on making an extremely versatile display with multiple modes, allowing consolidation of technology and (one hopes) reduction of total cost. After all, if a device is being used as an e-book, it shouldn’t be using TV technology to display the text; it’s both wasteful and less effective. So PixelQi is working on creating a display that’s good enough to work as both a high-definition LCD and a high-contrast e-paper surface as well. ...

India buys 250,000 OLPC systems for schools
CrunchGear — ... AMD, who had their CPU dropped in favor of the VIA C7-M chipset. The system memory has also been increased to 1 GB, and the internal storage has been bumped up to 4 GB. There are also rumor of a 2.0 model that should be revealed in 2010. ...

Asus Eee-book reader to sport dual color touchscreens, webcam?
CrunchGear — ... It was just a week or two ago that Asus said they were getting into the e-book reader market, and now they’ve gone and given away some details that sound too good to be true. Dual color touchscreens? Sounds like the OLPC 2, except the Eee Reader may actually make it to market. ...

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