I confess, I’m getting super excited about this product. Five years since the concept was first floated, its makers, One Laptop Per Child, are into a fourth generation of prototypes, renamed the ‘XO’, and gearing up for mass production.
Here are my favourite features:
(a) Access to knowledge. I believe that every single problem you can think [...]

Nothing helps us focus on the map better than knowing that there’s a pot of gold at the X. The X Prize Foundation is all about focusing our attention on innovation, and through high-profile competitions they’ve stimulated a huge wave of private enterprise in relation to space travel, genomics and automobility. It is [...]