This past month saw the first production run in China of the new educational tool, the " XO-Laptop" developed by One Lap Top per Child Foundation of Cambridge, Massachussetts. Read about it at: http://www.laptopgiving.org/
If you think that education of children is important to bring third-world communities out of poverty, this charitable project may be of interest. Between now and December 31, 2007, you can donate a laptop computer to a child in one of the poorest nations of the world, and at the same time, receive an XO Laptop, to give to a child in your life. The XO Laptop was initially called the "$100 Laptop" but cost over-runs during development drove the price closer to $200. For the Give One, Get One program, the donation of $400 (US) covers the gift to the needy child and the gift to your own child.
Even though it may look like a toy, the X0 laptop is an amazingly capable machine with features not available on any retail laptop. For example, it is "Wifi mesh" capable, meaning it can connect to any other WiFi-enabled laptop within a few hundred feet, and to the Internet through a WiFi hot spot. It is so energy efficient, it can run on solar panels. It is rugged enough to drop from a 4 foot table, having no hard drive to damage, using instead a 1GB flash memory.
Could this educational tool also work for seniors who don't have computers but would like to e-mail and browse? I'm going to find out. Marge and I have donated to the One Lap Top Per Child program. We still have one child in our house looking for a Christmas toy: me.
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