OLPC Next Laptop on Open Source Hardware

http://harkopen.com/news/olpcs-next-laptop-will-be-open-source-hardware-driven

Olpc's next laptop will be open source hardware driven
Submitted by madaerodog on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 17:32
Nicholas Negroponte announced the next generation of One laptop per child and the awesome part is that it will be open source. So kids go to our tutorials area to know how to solder :P

The XO-2 how it's named will be a dual screen device from what he heard and will cost about 75$, and will be using one of the screens as keyboard when needed.

"The first generation is a laptop that can be a book; the next generation will a book that can be a laptop," he says. "That's the switch.

"One important thing about the XO-2 is that we're going to do it as an open source hardware programme. The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple. The XO-2 will be designed as if we were Google - we'll want people to copy it. We'll make the constituent parts available. We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1.

"We had to do the XO this way because everybody said it couldn't be done. We purposely designed a special-purpose, award-winning museum of modern art piece. The next one will be different: everything from the dual display to the touch-sensitive, force-feedback, haptic keyboard will be available." The XO-2 came as a result of feedback from the XO-1.

Negroponte says he'd thought ebooks were the weakest argument for the OLPC, "but I found that for many people, the strongest case was books. Suddenly a village can have 10,000 books, which is more than we had in school."

So I hope they will do the same as with XO-1 , buy 2 receive one because this will definitely be on manny geeks table, including mine :)