The OLPC XO looks like a children’s toy, but it was built like a tank, and despite not changing the world, it’s still a lovely piece of hardware. Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) ...

The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits ...

To OLPC’s CFO Robert Hacker, however, one feature of the XO stands head and shoulders above the rest. “The main advantage is connectivity to the Internet,” he said.

Remember One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the organization that builds educational devices for kids in the developing nations? They're set to announce a new XO-branded system soon that looks to borrow ...

Now OLPC's Australian partner One Education is said to have a new XO device ready to be unveiled in a few weeks and it is probably more ambitious than ever. Not only will it be a tablet/laptop ...

Last Tuesday, OLPC News posted an article called "Goodbye One Laptop Per Child." In it, author Wayan Vota wrote, "With the hardware now long past its life expectancy, spare parts hard to find, and ...

Fans of the One Laptop Per Child program were shocked and saddened to hear of the organization’s imminent demise this week. There’s only one problem: OLPC isn’t actually dead.

Meanwhile, OLPC says the battery should give kids around 7.5 hours of runtime, but in a way that's a moot point unless your child's actually allowed that much uninterrupted screen time.

OLPC has priced the new Jelly Bean learning slate at US$149.99 and it's available exclusively at Walmart.com (though OLPC is hoping to get other retailers to join up in the near future).

OLPC has been showing off prototypes of the new tablet since January, and the last I’d heard, it was actually supposed to hit Walmart in June. So I’d take that July 16th date with a grain of salt.

OLPC OS 12.1.0 also incorporates text-to-speech support, enabling users to hear any selected text spoken out loud—a potential boon for educators working on basic literacy and language skills.