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OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity"viralMeme sends in a piece from OLPC News featuring a video interview with Pixel Qi's Mary Lou Jepson. The interview goes over some of the improvements in the company's extremely power-eficient screen technology that will show up in the next generations of the OLPC. The article links a video side... |
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New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktopgriffjon writes "The new hardware release (you can read about the upgrade here) also comes with a dual-boot option. Start rejoicing now; it's not XP or Sugar (the native, education-centric OS) — it's Sugar or Gnome. And of course there are other homebrew distributions like Xtra Ordinar... |
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Our Lady of Detritus: Performance Art PieceJill Sigman and Kristin Norderval, a choreographer and composer, will present their mobile, interactive installation-performance piece at Van Cortlandt Park. The piece aims to raise awareness about recycling and waste management. For more informat... ... |
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Microwaved OLPC Gets Molded Into a Scary Sushi Slug [Olpc]Kenny Irwin is an artist with a strange medium—microwaved plastic. His latest creation started out as an OLPC, but ended up looking like a slug made out of sushi. Did I mention that you could actually own this thing? ... |
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At long last someone has found a use for the OLPCEngadget has a full explanation, but basically, some dope melted down an OLPC craptop and molded it into a colorful toy. See, Nicholas Negroponte? It wasn't all a pointless gesture after all. ... |
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OLPC's XO Generation 1.5 Laptop dances from GNOME to Sugar, on video!We know how thrilled you were when you first witnessed the XO 1.5 outpace an overclocked XO 1.0 earlier this month. Still, there's no doubt in our mind that even that level of excitement will soon be overshadowed by the insane craziness you are about to experience in the form of a video showing ... |
