Side by side comparison video showing the Pixel Qi 3Qi LCD screen next to the E-ink based Amazon Kindle, next to the transflective Toshiba R600 and next to a regular resistive touchscreen tablet laptop. Comparing performance in direct sunlight, in the shade and in a dark room with and without the backlight.
Following the initial video that was released showing the Pixel Qi screen during the Computex trade show in Taipei, Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and Inventor of the Pixel Qi screen technology, answers user comments that were posted on the Engadget and Mobileread threads (among many other blogs who linked to the first video) with users from all over the world commenting and asking questions about the screen in the first video.
Michail Blestas, VP of Advanced Technology and Connectivity on the One Laptop Per Child project, talks to Robert Scoble about some of the unique wireless and power saving features inside the OLPC.
Posted at http://fastcompany.tv/video/inside-one-laptop-per-childs-wireless-features
Greenpeace is pointing their fingers at big IT industry manufacturers and distributors for not caring about the environment. They are also warning people that most so called old recycled computers are actually instead sent to some underdevelopped parts of asia and africa where slaves are melting motherboards and PC circuits with their bare hands to extract the little materials and metals they can that have any resale value on the black markets. So do not believe all those that want to export containers filled with your old computers to give to people in the third world. In some cases 75% of the old computers are unusable, they consume more power then there is available and thus the scheme is only using the charity as a means to escape and illegally monetize electronic waste. The USA doesn’t even have a policy to prevent electronic waste traffic. Hundreds of tons of electronic waste is shipped from the USA every year to be dumped and processed by slaves in the third world. Current PC components in most computers other then the OLPC have toxic chemicals in them that harm those poor people that melt them and that pollute the water and the ground where it is dumped.
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Former One Laptop Per Child CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen discusses the greener aspects of the XO Laptop.
One Laptop Per Child developer Chris Blizzard shows how the XO machine can be powered by pump action.
Posted at BBC.co.uk
Óscar Becerra, director general de tecnologías educativas del Ministerio de Educación, explica algunos de los productos que ayudarán que la XO se mantenga activa en zonas rurales donde no hay energía eléctrica.
Posted by jlujan
CEO Colin Bulthaup of Potenco shows the pull-cord generator for small electronic devices including the XO computer.
Nicholas Negroponte shows in Lima, Perú, two new prototypes, a yo-yo and a little solar panel that can charge the battery.
Posted by: jlujan
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