14 DAY TRIAL // When talking of dropping supplies from a helicopter or jet somewhere, one would normally think of food or medicine, or such things, but OLPC wants to adopt the approach for its tablet.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization did say they want to give every child in the world a laptop, or something close to that.
One would think this goal is just the sort of impossible dream OLPC set in order to always have something driving it onwards, but this might just not be the case.
Its most recent project, in fact, shows just how determined the organization is.
“We will literally take tablets and drop them out of helicopters,” stated chairman Nicholas Negroponte according to TechCrunch.
People likely needed a while to digest that statement if they heard this directly from the man, during the Open Mobile conference.
Basically, OLPC will pack the XO-3 into crates and drop them off in remote villages, leaving it to the populace to figure them out.
Commonly, this is known as the hands-off approach and, at the very least, has already been tested and found to have reliable results.
The XO-3 is a tablet device that will be completed during the later parts of 2012 and has a Pixel Qi transflective display, or at least might have it.
For those who don't remember, Pixel Qi panels are easy to read under sunlight and very efficient as well.
No final word exists on the specs of the slate, of course, but it is clear that the item won't go without USB 2.0, headphone jack, a camera and, quite possibly, solar chargers, satellite Internet and keyboard/mouse ports.
OLPC is thinking of dropping off the tablets around the world and having researchers visit the areas one year later to see what became of them and the people who got them.