Pixel Qi - OLPC/XO spinoff

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

Now it is getting fun. Pixel Qi is the project of Mary Lou Jepsen (former CTO of OLPC). Their web site starts off:

What computing can be, the XO laptop was just the first step.          

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, while leveraging a larger market for new technologies, beyond just OLPC: prices for next-generation hardware can be brought down by allowing multiple uses of the key technology advances.  Pixel Qi will give OLPC products at cost, while also selling the sub-systems and devices at a profit for commercial use.

[via PC World - Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop]

On another note: OLPC America to launch in 2008. What I’m afraid of is the cultural ignorance of the US. America is not the name of their country. They are the United States of America. If they say “OLPC America” means their 50 states, it is just reminding me that they either have to include all the Americas, or better, how about OLPC.US.