Blogger and trendwatcher Vincent Everts showed up at the Bloghaus on opening night without his Segway, but sporting a “One Laptop Per Child” OLPC “XO”. The machine, developed by Nicholas Negroponte’s nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, and touted as “rugged, durable, and child-friendly, inside and out,” was not so friendly to Everts in this informal demo.
This is a taste of my Saturday on the Podtech BlogHaus bus drive to Las Vegas. On board are A-List bloggers: Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Luic Le Meur, Marc Canter, Jeremy Toeman, Robert McLaws, plus Valerie Cunningham, Rocky, and many more.
It includes a demo of a Samsung ultramobile device ...
SJ Klein is director of content at the One Laptop Per Child project. The vision of the project is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. And one such way is through a very inexpensive yet rugged laptop. OLPC is the ...
Commute Easy is a pooling initiative whose aim is to connect commuters in Bangalore and Pune who share travelling routes.
This initiative is the brainchild of Vipul Kasera, a software professional working at ThoughtWorks. He is a regular carpooler and having lived in a traffic congested city like Bangalore, ...
Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4’s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate audio and video with your lighting and more to create moods and sound in different rooms in your home. And with all your music available with a quick tap on your visual remote that shows album art, allows for playlists, and offers searching, finding the right song is more fun than ever.
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John van Bronkhorst, Seagate’s executive director for branded solutions reveals the new features in the Free Agent new generation hard drives. This is a Seagate podcast.
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Host: Michael Johnson – PodTech
Guest: John van Bronkhorst – Seagate
Michael Johnson - PodTech
This is Michael Johnson and ...
Nicholas Negroponte is taking a leave of absence from his position as director of the MIT Media Laboratory to chair the non-profit One Laptop Per Child. The organization seeks to re-think the portable computer, and to put thousands of machines in the hands of children in impoverished countries around ...
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