Exhibit on the OLPC XO
Oct 17th, 2007 by dfhuynh
Yesterday I got my hand on an OLPC XO
and I tried to load Exhibit onto its browser. And it worked!
That’s the Presidents exhibit running with both map and timeline views! This would be pretty delightful if kids can generate these visualizations themselves about whatever topics that interest them, or whatever issues that are pressing in their worlds, much like this exhibit about contaminated cities in Spain. Here is that same exhibit on the XO:
And of course, to Semantic Web researchers like myself, it is delightful to see RDF showing up on the XO (through Exhibit’s Export feature):
that looks like a shrekified type of computer ;o
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on that laptop for quite some time. I’m quite impressed thus far with the laptop’s capabilites given its small form factor and cost.
I like it except for the fact that the keyboard is a bit cumbersome.
I just read about the OLPC XO on techcrunch.
Can’t wait to get my hands on one and test it out!
alejandro
It looks like the EEEPC does the run but the idea with this laptop is realy intersting and i hope once every child will have access to technology
The OLPC has been partly outdated by the many netbooks, e.g. Asus Eee PC (I run af danish blog on this on http://www.eeepc.dk ) - but OLPC deserves big credits for the great idea and starting the wave of netbooks. And ofcourse the thing about charity as well
“…if kids can generate these visualizations themselves about whatever topics that interest them, or whatever issues that are pressing in their worlds, much like this exhibit about contaminated cities in Spain.”
“whatever issues that are pressing in their worlds…much like…contaminated cities in Spain”???????
Well…ummm…I think you have selected the wrong country in your example, haven’t you?