The One Laptop Per Child project may be about to issue a tender for graphic designers after deciding its next piece of hardware will be a hybrid laptop/tablet “next-level innovation machine.” The organisation behind the green machines unveiled a prototype tablet at CES, after issuing a roadmap way back in 2009 that promised …

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Monday 30th July 2012 07:45 GMT Pen-y-gors

Naughty!

Are you allowed to use the words 'London' and '2012' in the same article without permission from the Stasi?

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Monday 30th July 2012 08:11 GMT Martin Brennan

Hasn't this train already left the station. I may be mistaken but didn't Thailand order 800k Android tablets for their students. I can buy a $59 Android tablet today and have it delivered in days. Martin

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1. Monday 30th July 2012 09:10 GMT Anonymous Coward 101
  
  Yes. The OLPC project was a farce from the start, and these days cheap and effective Android tablets get shat out of Chinese factories like water.
  
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Monday 30th July 2012 08:16 GMT Graham Dawson

Combines the best of a tablet and laptop? Sounds familiar... oh wait, it could be because that's exactly the device I'm posting from!

Now if only ASUS would get off their butts and release the padfone here.

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Monday 30th July 2012 08:20 GMT RonWheeler

Relevant?

They're just trying to stay -relevant- (assume annoying wiggly finger speech marks). Laptops aren't faddy enough any more. Nowadays you have to have a swishy swishy finger painting device to be down with the cool kids, oh and err, well educated.

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Monday 30th July 2012 12:40 GMT Anonymous Coward 15

Convertible tablets in the hands of kids

Broken before you can say "Miss, I lost the pen".

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