{"id":37,"date":"2008-05-27T20:13:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-05-27T20:13:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T01:13:03","slug":"one-laptop-per-child-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"One laptop per child redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\/en\/index.shtml\">One Laptop Per Child<\/a> is an effort to produce a $100 laptop that can be distributed en masse to the school children of the world.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\/en\/laptop\/hardware\/specs.shtml\">first pass attempt<\/a> at the hardware was going for $200, featured a 400 MHz CPU, flash for storage and wifi.  And it&#8217;s powered by winding.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s great, but the second generation machine looks very interesting, both the screen and keyboard portions, as we&#8217;d conventionally describe them, appear to be multi-touch displays, offering a number of ways to use the device.  You have to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2008\/05\/xo_laptop_redes.php\">these pictures<\/a> to see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s TED talk describes the concept:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W5ySOqtxhbw&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W5ySOqtxhbw&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not convinced this is the educational silver bullet it&#8217;s sold as, but I&#8217;m interested to see how it develops over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Laptop Per Child is an effort to produce a $100 laptop that can be distributed en masse to the school children of the world.\u00a0 The first pass attempt at the hardware was going for $200, featured a 400 MHz CPU, flash for storage and wifi. And it&#8217;s powered by winding. That&#8217;s great, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-education","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}