{"id":44,"date":"2007-08-23T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T15:49:43","slug":"one-laptop-per-child-project-continues-to-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/one-laptop-per-child-project-continues-to-inspire\/","title":{"rendered":"One Laptop Per Child Project Continues to Inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/olpc.jpg\" style=\"float: right\" title=\"OLPC laptop\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/olpc.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"OLPC laptop\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/index.shtml\" title=\"OLPC project site\"> This project<\/a> that offers laptops, the XO, to the underdeveloped countries of the world is truly astounding on both a humanitarian and a technological level.  A surprisingly well-written and insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/?p=1187\">review by a 12-year old<\/a> appeared in August of this year.<\/p>\n<p>How It CONNECTS<br \/>\nThis box connects wirelessly to the &#8216;net and other XO users who create a local network, and it includes some groundbreaking collaboration\/sharing tools as well. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/linux\/library\/l-sugar-olpc\/index.html\" title=\"sugar and olpc\">Sugar<\/a> open-source application users can leverage the built-in camera and mike to jump into video or audio chats.<\/p>\n<p>How It DISPLAYS<br \/>\nThis is a low-cost, low power consumption device for obvious reasons. It XO  has display that is readable in outdoor conditions ( it uses diagonal vs. horizontal color stripes and uses black-and-white and color pixels ). It offers black-and-white high resolution in sunlight and color indoors.<\/p>\n<p>How it POWERS<br \/>\nWhile in idle mode, the XO uses 1 watt of power (compare to your typical 14 watts from average laptop). It is built on a system of alternative power sources including small solar panels, string-pull generators, small windmills, etc. (brilliant!). Battery innovations include the ability to use different battery technologies: nickel or lithium and extensive heat testing done in lieu of recent battery incidents.<\/p>\n<p>How it SURVIVES<br \/>\nThe XO was not just designed for kids, but for kid envirinments which can be brutal on fragile computing elements. The XO comes with a rubber membrane keyboard (good for wet or dirty hands), and it has an easily-swappable system to accomodate different languages. It has amazing safeguards against theft and are shipped in non-functioning state ready to activate at destination point via USB key.<\/p>\n<p>This project keeps evolving and no doubt the big corporations will take note and begin incorporating some of this innovation into their product lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project that offers laptops, the XO, to the underdeveloped countries of the world is truly astounding on both a humanitarian and a technological level. A surprisingly well-written and insightful review by a 12-year old appeared in August of this year. How It CONNECTS This box connects wirelessly to the &#8216;net and other XO users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,20,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}