{"id":17,"date":"2006-11-28T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/olpc-one-laptop-per-child-video-tour\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:32:09","slug":"olpc-one-laptop-per-child-video-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/olpc-one-laptop-per-child-video-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC &#8211; One Laptop Per Child Video Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was very impressed when I saw how far the OLPC project had come, this <a title=\"OLPC Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DwzCsOFxT-U\">demonstration<\/a> of the user interface on this Linux based laptops is simple and intuitive and a world apart from the bare Linux interfaces most of us are used to.  You can also learn about the history and some of the issues faced by the project  on <a title=\"OLPC Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Children%27s_Machine\">Wikipedia<\/a>, as well as view official information at the <a title=\"OLPC Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laptop.org\/\">OLPC Homepage<\/a>. The laptops are will cost $100, and a represent an opportunity to revolutionise how we teach the worlds children &#8211; with an emphasis on developing nations where access to technology is limited for under privileged children.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and did I mention that they are wind-up powered??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was very impressed when I saw how far the OLPC project had come, this demonstration of the user interface on this Linux based laptops is simple and intuitive and a world apart from the bare Linux interfaces most of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/olpc-one-laptop-per-child-video-tour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,2,5],"tags":[397,390,382,385],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-linux","category-personal","category-technology","tag-charity","tag-linux","tag-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}