Panacea University - Home. Scientists could be months away from discovering antigravity. ThinkingAllowedTV's Channel. Inventions. OLPC XO-1. The subnotebooks are designed for sale to government-education systems which then give each primary school child their own laptop. Pricing was set to start at $188 in 2006, with a stated goal to reach the $100 mark in 2008 and the 50-dollar mark by 2010.[7] When offered for sale in the Give One, Get One campaigns of Q4 2006 and Q4 2007, the laptop was sold at $199.[8] The XO-1 is also nicknamed ceibalita in Uruguay after the Ceibal project.[10] History[edit] OLPC XO-1 original design proposal The first early prototype was unveiled by the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte and then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on November 16, 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia.[11] The device shown was a rough prototype using a standard development board.
In 2006 there was a major controversy because Microsoft had suddenly developed an interest in the XO project and wanted the formerly open source effort to run Windows. Design[edit] Hardware[edit] ORMUS -- The Matrix of Consciousness (2_5).mp4.