Negroponte On OLPC's New Path, Plans For XO 3 122
waderoush writes "After laying off staff and splitting the organization in two, Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Child effort may be hitting their stride again. In an interview with Xconomy, Negroponte says he has a new model for getting XO laptops to kids in Gaza and Afghanistan — and reveals more ideas about the planned XO 3 tablet and the future of books. 'Paper books are really dead — they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,' he says."
Re:Gaza? (Score:2, Informative)
According to TFA they've already placed around 3,000 there, so... yes?
Re:I used a book today (Score:3, Informative)
Or a kewl final problem: you can plug it into a computer USB port and it will recharge, but if you plug it into a USB POWER source (no computer) it will happily keep running the CPU trying to enumerate itself on the bus, never allocate power for itself to charge, and drain the battery in an hour or less. BUT, you can plug in a coaxial power adapter right next to the mini-USB connector and it will happily charge up quickly. ($24.95 for the AC adapter from Sony. $2 for a USB-coax cable from electronics shop.) And if you use the "safely disconnect" option under Windows to safely disconnect the beasty from your computer but don't immediately disconnect it, it goes back to "trying to connect" mode and discharges the battery.