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The 'hackable car,' tablet OLPC XO3 and other designs that challenge the status quo

By | February 26, 2010, 6:32am PST

Summary: Would you like to drive a “hackable car”? How about use an ultrathin, touchscreen, interactive plastic computer?

Would you like to drive a “hackable car”? How about use an ultrathin, touchscreen, interactive plastic computer?

Industrial designer Yves Behar revealed these and other design concepts at yesterday’s Greener Gadgets conference in New York City.

His goal: to use design to make more efficient, more sustainable, more ethical, and ultimately better products.

Better still, he wants to focus on designing purpose-built products for people, such as the OLPC XO3, (pictured above) a $100 ultrathin touchscreen tablet made for the developing world.

Will Behar succeed? Check out SmartPlanet’s Smart Takes blog to find out.

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He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.

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Ha! Dell has even better concepts. No hardware, just concepts.
Robert Carnegie 2009 Updated - 1st Mar 2010
Oops, not Dell, Asus. But Dell also has.

See http://www.oled-display.net/asus-design-show-waveface-design-concept-with-flexible-oled-devices

Imaginary bendy PCs.

They're not just goofy drawings, they're accurate drawings of goofy machines. That don't exist and probably never will. Not these particular ones.
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OLPC 3.0?
Joe_Raby 26th Feb 2010
How about the OLPC 2.0 first?

Or better yet, how about a reliable business model before that?
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OLPC XO-2
andrew.nusca 26th Feb 2010
The second generation of the OLPC XO has been
announced already:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=174

It's due this year.
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Ha! Dell has even better concepts. No hardware, just concepts.
Robert Carnegie 2009 Updated - 1st Mar 2010
Oops, not Dell, Asus. But Dell also has.

See http://www.oled-display.net/asus-design-show-waveface-design-concept-with-flexible-oled-devices

Imaginary bendy PCs.

They're not just goofy drawings, they're accurate drawings of goofy machines. That don't exist and probably never will. Not these particular ones.

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