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There is good that will come from OLPC even if OLPC as an organization were to vanish tomorrow. PixelQi.com (spinoff from former CTO of OLPC) has developed a h
by patrickgzill 17y ago
There is good that will come from OLPC even if OLPC as an organization were to vanish tomorrow.
PixelQi.com (spinoff from former CTO of OLPC) has developed a high-resolution LCD technology that will compete with e-Ink; since it uses mainstream LCD manufacturing the economies of scale will mean it will be much cheaper to produce an 11" e-reader.
Assuming PixelQI succeeds, this means even more e-readers for less money, and and an increase in whatever you perceive the benefits of e-readers to be (such as less paper waste, or better use of time).
The Sugar project http://www.sugarlabs.org/ http://www.sugarlabs.org/ is the software side of OLPC, able to be run from USB sticks on any old PC you have lying around; a P3-700 or higher is still pretty snappy. I know of several test implementations using it, for real, in schools (there are still bugs to work out until it can be deployed widely).