OLPC Wins Popular Science Award
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| 'The goal of the XO is simple and noble: to give every child a
| laptop, especially in developing countries, where the machines will
| be sold in bulk for about $130 apiece. But the One Laptop Per Child
| nonprofit, formed at MIT, didn't just create a cheap computer. In
| addition to cutting costs -- by designing lower-priced circuitry andu
| sing an open-source operating system, among other things -- it also
| improved on the standard laptop by slashing the machine's energy
| use by 90 percent, ideal for a device that could be charged by
| hand-cranked power in rural villages.'
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