OLPC 2.0 dual touchscreen mockup surfaces in the wild
By Paul Miller 
posted Jan 28th 2009 2:02PM
posted Jan 28th 2009 2:02PM
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i guess by "touch screen" they were literally going for "well....you CAN touch it."
My-my-my-my music hits me so hard makes me say oh my Lord
Thank you for blessing me with a mind to rhyme and two hyped feet
That's good when you know you're down
A superbowl homeboy from Oaktown
And I'm known as such
And this is a screen uh u can touch.
Can touch this.
No fair replying to the first post with unrelated stuff just to get to the top of the comments.
Wait, I sorta did it myself. Shit. Hmm, kinda awkward moment here. Well, THIRD!!!
Preparing for fade into background in 3...2...1...
Allow me to explain:
His comment put that bloody song in my head, and I'm damned if I'm going to suffer it alone.
Well, you magnificent bastard, you. Mission accomplished. Thankfully I had a trans-cerebral shocker installed for just such purposes. Let's turn up the gain here, press the red button, aaand... (unintelligible babbling)
I like grapes.
@ham: I'm sure it's just a mockup. Companies usually create mockups to make sure a design will work before prototyping. It could be a concept, but the folks are so fanatically devoted that I have little doubt that it will come to fruition.
On a side note, I've been trying to get my hands on a XO for a while... Seems like I always miss the buy-two-get-one offers. Maybe that's why they're doing poorly. Many potential casual investors are hitting walls.
Looks extremely fake.
Make it run iPhone OS and slap an Apple on it.
"Apple singlehandedly improved pre-K -8 computer education "
But desirable too.
I would like to see this concept applied to "grown ups" netbooks
Well I guess atleast if it's touch screen you don't have to worry about the end user learning English...
This will not remain a low cost PC I am assuming if it comes to existence?
stop spamming on engadget, you annoying d-bag.
Its a fine idea.......
Don't be too exited, it's probably a estetic mockup, printed screen as it doesn't look backlighted at all.
Specially with the screens being above the borders.... *points at the shadows*
would be awesome if the 2nd generation of DSi would be like that...
If that comes out in the next 10 years, I'll bite through my own face.
Is that a pull string ring on the top?
That's the best E-ink I've ever seen.
I'm no expert, but they are probably just testing out the plastic case. The touch screen probably hasn't been developed yet.
Exceptionally cool idea, however the model in the picture is unquestionably fake for one indisputable factor:
Your finger won't draw a shadow over a backlit LCD that's on (what the model is depicting).
Unless, of course, the screen isn't backlit. It's no secret that Pixel Qi is working on color, sunlight readable screens similar to the greyscale mode on the XO-1.
Of course, that screen is almost certainly just a paper mockup if the whole device isn't just photoshopped.
It's about time everyone WOKE UP to dual touchscreens for a tablet, Look at Nintendo, They have been at it for years with the ds and like they say: That thing prints money.
No more improbable than a paperback book :-)
I wish the Kindle were done this way..
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someone's getting fired for this photo....
Why would someone get fired for a piss poor photoshop job?
Can somebody just glued 2 iphones together side by side??
I bet there's someone outhere who can make it happens.
It seems like one of the main points of teaching children to use a computer is that they will learn how to type. Unfortunately, you can't really learn how to type on a touchscreen.
Uhh, you can't cast a shadow on a screen. They call that 'fail'.
This looks SUPER fake.
Hope this comes with Ubuntu.
Probably Fedora with a Sugar interface.
More than anything else, this resembles the Apple Knowledge Navigator film that Sculley put together in the early 90's.
...except, of course, the KN had no visible hinge line. So that proves it, this must be "real"