[One Laptop Per Child]’s Nicholas Negroponte, speaking at the Open Mobile summit today, detailed a new plan for distributing the OLPC project’s next device, the XO-3 tablet computer: they’re going to airdrop it on remote villages and then come back a year later to see how it worked.
If you ignore how goofy this is in actual practice, you may realize this is the perfect engineering and design constraint for approaching a new product.
(via dbreunig)
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i am having a very, very difficult time accepting that this may actually be happening.
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Requirements: Able to withstand being dropped from a plane.
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