The new version of 'Touchscreen laptop' is due already, to come out in 2010. This will replace a traditional keyboard with a second touch-sensitive video screen. The screen can be configured as a keyboard or the device can be opened flat and used as an electronic book. It is desined for the emerging world out there, while keeping in mind to make it userfriendly for the childeren. This is a collaboratice effort from acedima and the industry involved in the social projects. “You can fold it flat and use it as one continuous display,” said Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of 'One Laptop per Child Foundation' the foundation’s founder.Negroponte said the organization hoped to price the new computer at $75 each, compared with the $188 price for the current generation of laptops. Mary Lou Jepsen, who left One Laptop per Child to launch a for-profit business, will work with Negroponte's organization to design the new laptop.
The One Laptop per Child Foundation, is a New England based nonprofit organization which is planning a new version of its inexpensive laptop for developing countries. They have defined their mission statement in ternms of FOUR Ps
In addition, this non-profit organization is planning the resumption of the get-one-give- one program to allow people in affluent countries to buy two of the laptops and donate one to a child in a developing country. This is a brilliant idea to spread the fire of knowledge across the untamed among the folks needs to be lit up with it, out there.
Negroponte said the program will resume in August or September and will be open to buyers in North America and Europe. He said the previous program, which opened last year to people in North America, enabled the One Laptop to distribute 30,000 additional laptops to children in Rwanda, Mongolia, and Haiti.
