Video with OLPC CTO

Next.net has an interview video with the OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, where Mary goes through some of the tidbits about OLPC.

It is a bit funny that one of their innovations is to actually turn of things when they are not needed. Anyone knowing anything about how mobile phones handle power management, there is not much new in this thinking, and actually laptops of our days are just done without thinking about power saving at all (software does so many stupid things to use a lot of power). Fairly simple optimization would help laptop battery usage a lot.

On the bright side, you have to love what they have done with the screen. It really works outside in direct sunlight, unlike most laptop or mobile device screens. This I really consider an great innovation.

And the best thing, OLPC is green. If we used OLPC's as our laptops, we would save 8.5 billion in electricity....