世界の教育現場にパソコンと通信環境を提供する運動を商業ペースで確立することを目指すOne Laptop per Childは、現在のラップトップ形パソコンでの展開に新たに、Marvell社と共同でタブレット形のパソコンのプロトタイプの開発を今年中に行い、2011年のCESにもその成果を発表したいとのことです。
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How about this telling quote from Negroponte, with emphasis added:
"At CES [2011] we will show a tablet that can be and will be used for children in the developed world that will allow us to start testing many of the things that combine, if you will, a laptop, an iPad, and a Kindle, and sort of take those and put them into one device."
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OLPC's Negroponte says XO-3 prototype tablet coming in 2010
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" Marvell and OLPC Empower Education Industry to Revolutionize the Classroom Experience through Advanced, Affordably-Priced
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The new family of XO tablets will incorporate elements and new capabilities based on feedback from the nearly 2 million children and families around the world who use the current XO laptop. The XO tablet, for example, will require approximately one watt of power to operate (compared to about 5 watts necessary for the current XO laptop). The XO tablet will also feature a multi-lingual soft keyboard with touch feedback, enabling it to serve millions more children who speak virtually any language anywhere in the world.
The device is also decidedly "constructionist" in nature. By design, it combines hardware and software to deliver a platform that will enable educators, students and families around the world to create their own content, and learn to read, write, and create their own education programs and share all of these experiences via a mesh network model. The device will also feature an application to directly access more than 2 million free books available across the Internet.
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コペンハーゲンで開催されたCOP15にあわせてさまざまな再生可能エネルギーや省エネの技術が世界中で披露されました。その中にMITのMITのSENSEABLE City Labが開発中のコペンハーゲンホイールという発電するハブで駆動する電動自転車を発表しました。ユニークな点は、既存のハブをCopenhagen Wheelに交換することで、電動自転車となり、駆動し進化し続けるスマートフォンなどの携帯端末に電力を供給することができる点です。ナビだけでなく、二酸化炭素、窒素酸化物の濃度など都市の環境の変化を刻々と把握するためのツールとなるような観測網からアプリまでを総合的に提案されています。都市を自転車で移動することで温暖化効果ガスの削減につながるということで、積極的に都市交通の中心に自転車を置くことで、都市とその住人はグリーンマイルを貯めることもできます。それは数値化され、地域や国の温暖化効果ガス削減のプログラムとして数値化され、施策に盛り込まれもします。
商品化の道筋は早く、2011年中には、イタリア政府とDucatiEnergia社により商品化される予定ということです。
プレスリリース / SENSEABLE City Lab, MIT DECEMBER, 2009
・copenhagen wheel project / MIT'S BIG WHEEL IN COPENHAGEN
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" New bicycle wheel not only boosts power using Formula One inspired technology, but also
can keep track of fitness, friends, smog and traffic - helping Copenhagen become the first
carbon neutral capital by 2025
It looks like an ordinary bicycle wheel with an oversized center. But packed inside the sleek,
bright red hub is a veritable Swiss army knife's worth of electronic gadgets and novel functions.
The Copenhagen Wheel, designed by researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab, will be
presented at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change on December 15, 2009 before
heads of state and mayors form all over the world. It can store energy every time the rider
brakes and then give that power back to provide a boost when going uphill or to add a burst
of speed in traffic. "The wheel uses a technology similar to the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery
System), which has radically changed Formula One racing over the past couple of years.
When you brake, your kinetic energy is recuperated by an electric motor and then stored by
batteries within the wheel, so that you can have it back to you when you need it." - explains
professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the MIT Senseable City Lab.
”The bike wheel contains all you need so that no sensors or additional electronics need to be
added to the frame and an existing bike can be retrofitted with the blink of en eye. In a sense,
you drive by foot: when you pedal forward the motor supplements your torque; when you
pedal backwards to brake, the motor starts regenerating electric energy while reducing your
speed.”
