Mary Lou Jepsen was the founding CTO of the OLPC project. She has set up a company called Pixel Qi, which is pursuing the $75 laptop, while also aiming to bring sunlight readable, low-cost and low-power screens into mainstream laptops, cellphones and digital cameras.
Pixel Qi is currently pursuing the $75 laptop, while also aiming to bring sunlight readable, low-cost and low-power screens into mainstream laptops, cellphones and digital cameras.
Spinning out from OLPC enables the development of a new machine beyond the XO (the OLPC framework), while leveraging a larger commercial market for new technologies, beyond just OLPC. Pixel Qi believes prices for next-generation hardware can be brought down by allowing multiple uses of the key technology advances.
Pixel Qi said it plans to sell OLPC its products at cost, while also selling the sub-systems and devices at a profit for commercial use.
“I believe that looking at computers in a new, holistic, systemic way, with a clean-sheet approach to computer design - rather than incrementally increasing the horsepower of the CPU - is critical to bringing computing and Internet access to more than the 1 billion affluent who now are its beneficiaries,” Ms Jepsen said on her web site.
“The key is a new generation of low-cost, low power, durable, networked computers, leveraging open-design principles,” she said.
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