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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), an innovative initiative to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves takes "buy one, get one free" to a whole new level. This pioneering venture created the XO laptop, a unique machine with features created specifically for children of the emerging world and it's latest innovation is the holiday promotion that is currently underway in which each computer purchased ensures that one is also given to a disadvantaged child in a developing nation.

The XO laptop

Award winning

Honored by Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New" Grand Award, the XO laptop marries fuseproject's high-concept design with cutting-edge technological solutions for a very low price. The goal of the project is both simple and worthy: to give every child a laptop computer, especially in developing countries, where the machines will be sold in bulk for about $130 each.

Innovative design

Each computer comes complete with a high resolution (for reading), high contrast (for operation in full daylight) LED backlit screen, Wi-Fi, "mesh networking" — a type of peer-to-peer ad hoc networking that requires zero configuration and will enable XO owners to collaborate and interact, a screen that can pivot 180 degrees to lie flat on top of the keyboard like a tablet, and it uses so little power that an external hand generator or a solar panel can recharge the system's battery.

OLPC classroom in Skopje

Give one, Get one

The XO isn't intended to be sold in modern markets like the United States. However, the XO laptop will be temporarily available through the Give One, Get One program. Basically, you can purchase two XO laptops for $400 and you'll get one, and one will be sent to a child in the emerging world.

Learn more about the OLPC

• One Laptop per Child
• Fox News Review
• OLPC on flickr
• Laptop Magazine Review
• David Pogue reviews the OLPC
• The OLPC Wiki
• OLPC News
• Documentary from MIT
• OLPC on YouTube