One Laptop Per Child, the organization that is aiming to make low-cost laptops available to children around the globe, is laying out its product road map for the next three years, including a single-panel design targeted to be released in 2012.
The non-profit organization's goal in the next three iterations of its XO laptop are designed to increase the system's performance while developing a design that will make it easy to use by children in poor, rural and remote areas.
It hasn't been easy. In early 2008, the OLPC split with Intel, which started developing its own low-cost Classmate PCs. In January, OLPC, struggling financially, laid off half of its staff, partially due to the failure of its G1G1 program, where when a person bought an XO, another would be given to a child somewhere in the world for free.
However, the OLPC's debut XO-powered by an Advanced Micro Device processor and running a slimmed-down version of Fedora Linux-has been distributed to more than 1.4 million children in 35 countries, according to Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC founder and chairman.
"To fulfill our mission of reaching 500 million children in all remote corners of the planet, OLPC will continue to innovate in design and performance," Negroponte said in a statement.
It's with XO 3.0 that OLPC radically changes the design. It will be built on a single sheet of flexible plastic, and will be designed to be unbreakable. It also will have no holes in it, and a ring attached to the upper right corner to make it easier to hold and carry.
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