OLPC XO-2

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization announced its new XO-2 laptop design, which will likely replace the XO-1 design. The new design uses two touch-screen LCDs flanking a central hinge. This approach allows the unit to be used as a book with facing pages, as a conventional laptop using a virtual keyboard on the lower display, or as a single system shared by two users. This is just a conceptual design so far, and the images are computer-generated, but OLPC announced some goals for the redesign; smaller overall size, lower weight, 1W power consumption, and a volume price of just $75 in 2010.