Posted on Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 3:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte
showed off the second-generation OLPC XO laptops. Negroponte said the XO-2 notebooks will feature two touch-sensitive displays, the systems will be much smaller and will look more like a book. The XO-2 is scheduled to be released in 2010 and should have a power consumption of only 1W!
Negroponte didn’t share many details about the XO-2’s hardware, but the new system has two touch-sensitive displays. As you can see from the video and the pictures, the XO-2 will be much smaller than the original machine (half the size, according to the press release) and will have a foldable e-book form factor. “The next generation laptop should be a book,” Negroponte said.
The XO-2 will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays, which was pioneered by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. The design will provide a right and left page in vertical format, a hinged laptop in horizontal format, and a flat, two-screen continuous surface for use in tablet mode. “Younger children will be able to use simple keyboards to get going, and older children will be able to switch between keyboards customized for applications as well as for multiple languages,” the press release reads. The XO-2 will also reduce power consumption to 1 watt.
