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Article: One Laptop plans to ditch the keyboard ; Foundation expects its next-generation computer to cost $75
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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The Cambridge foundation that helped inspire the current boom in
cheap laptop computers is now working on something even more radical
- an ultracheap computer with no keyboard.
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child
Foundation, revealed plans for the new computer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Media Lab yesterday. Due for release in
2010, the new machine will be smaller and lighter than the
foundation's current XO laptop, which went on sale last year.
But the new device will feature two video display screens, one of
them replacing the keyboard found in other laptops. The screens will
be touch-sensitive, and can be configured to act as a traditional
keyboard. ...
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