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Gadgetell: Believe tech can change the world? Buy one of these this holiday season.
Gadgetreview: OLPC Partnering With Amazon.com In XO Laptop Relaunch
Lifehacker: Amazon Offering "Give One, Get One" XO Laptop Deal [In Brief]
Gear Live: OLPC Give One Get One at Amazon
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: Give One Laptop per Child, get an XO for your child--or yourself
Believe tech can change the world? Buy one of these this holiday season.
Gadgetell —
Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Laptops We talk a lot about how technology makes things better. We look to computers and tell ourselves how much better off we are, how much more efficient we are, how advanced we are. The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Give 1 Get 1 program is back again after selling out more than 500,000 units last year. Now, you can join this movement by purchasing a laptop for yourself and sending one to a child to change the world in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia, Ethiopia and others that need help.
The laptop is an impressive piece of kit. The hand crank allows users ...
OLPC Partnering With Amazon.com In XO Laptop Relaunch
Gadgetreview —
The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO laptop program relaunched for the second time with Amazon.com taking care of the ordering and distribution. As of now you can order the amazing XO laptop through the Give 1, Get 1 program for $399 or choose to give one for $199.
I must say that the XO laptop is an amazing piece of machinery with its built in Wi-Fi, rugged exterior case, color/black screen readable in direct sunlight, ultra-low 4 watt power consumption, and the ability to charge using solar power.
It’s crammed with fun, educational programs designed to change a kid’s perspective of the world. But why give them a laptop when ...
Amazon Offering "Give One, Get One" XO Laptop Deal [In Brief]
Lifehacker —
[image] For the second time, you can order the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project to be sent to a child in the developing world, or you can order two, including one for yourself. The latter offer is $399 in the US , and is available to customers worldwide from Amazon's UK store as well. I've long admired the machines from afar for the innovative user interface, low power demands and small size. Any readers participate in the first program who'd like to share their experience with the machines and the donation? [ ...
OLPC Give One Get One at Amazon
Gear Live —
Once again, the OLPC project is offering its Give One Get One deal. This time it will be on Amazon. For $399.00, your child and one in another country will receive one of the colorful XO laptops. The company is still hoping to lower the price to $100.00, but so far increasing product costs have prevented it. About 473,000 units have been placed in 31 countries thus far. Order now in the U.S. and UK and get your XO this year. We are thinking that if you want to give your kids a great present for the upcoming holidays, he/she would love to know that they helped another child somewhere else. ...
Give One Laptop per Child, get an XO for your child--or yourself
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women —
... Yes, once again this year the One Laptop per Child folks have come up with a give-one get-one pitch. This means you can buy not one but two cutting-edge small computers for less than the price of conventional laptops retailers are hawking at this time of year: just $399. (Or you can forgo a personal XO and send one to a child in the developing world for just $199.) ...
12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times
Wired: Gadget Lab —
An economic crisis changes the way you think about gadgets. Is a $400 game console bundle really what you want to be spending your hard-earned money on, considering that you could be out of a job in six months?
Maybe not (though we're sympathetic to the idea that the recently unemployed might need to blow off steam with a few rounds of Wii Boxing). If you're spending your gadget dollars cautiously, you'll pick gadgets that
don't cost a huge amount,
have lasting utility,
aren't likely to break or wear out quickly, and
will continue to be useful even when the infrastructure around them ...
