Podcast: XO Laptop Innovations

Few technologies in recent years have inspired as much interest or discussion as the One Laptop Per Child's effort to provide what has been called the $100 laptop to the developing world.

When it was first discussed, many said it would be impossible to build a laptop for anywhere near that price. And then, as the laptop came closer to reality, many took to critizing its
capabilities and its mission to provide computing resources as an educational tool for children around the world.

But now the $100 (actually $175) laptop, dubbed the XO, is going into mass production and will soon be in the hands of millions of children in the developing world. However, while much of the focus has been on the price of the laptop, many of the most impressive aspects of the XO are in
its technology. The XO has made some impressive breakthroughs in power management, display technology and collaboration.

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