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OLPC rides again

The OLPC horse is still being flogged, this time in a smaller format and with dual touch sensitive displays (see the pics below). What consistently confuses me about this project is the lofty goals OLPC espouses without truly connecting with the situation into which it is supposed to be introduced.
Bruce Nussbaum summed it up quite [...]

Posted 22 May 2008 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

OLPC “Sugar” UI on your PC

It’s possible to get the OLPC “Sugar” UI running on your Windows / Mac through an emulator. Have a play with a very different UI paradigm.

Link: OS images for emulation (laptop.org)

Posted 29 March 2007 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

OLPC Human Interface Guidelines

The One Laptop Per Child project has taken a fairly radical departure from the standard desktop metaphor, instead going for an activity-centric, social and temporally biased user experience.
“There are no software applications in the traditional sense on the laptop. The laptop focuses children around “activities.” This is more than a new naming convention; it represents [...]

Posted 12 December 2006 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,