 Hey guys, this is Joanna for The Verge and I'm here at CES 2012 with one of the most exciting products of the show. This is the OLPC XO tablet. It is the successor to the original OLPC laptop. And just like the original laptop, this is a rugged tablet. It's an 8-inch tablet. Going to take a look at the hardware now with some help from OLPC's CTO Ed McNerney. Sure. We've got, you know, a fairly standard port configuration but with some options that are designed really for the audiences that we're trying to serve. So we have a standard USB, full-size USB port for thumb drives, sneaker nets, really important where we go. We've got headphone and microphone jacks, has the same stereo input and output that we have on our laptops. The microphone jack is also designed to be a DC sensor jack so you can hook up thermometers or other kinds of data collection tools. A USB on-the-go port which you can use for connecting peripherals. It's a micro USB. So it's also available as a charging port. Okay, so you can charge this through that too. You can charge it through a regular 5-volt port. The problem is, you know, even though there's a lot of tablets that use that as their only charging option, it's really limited. It's great if you've got a wall-ward adapter and a wall to plug it into. We go places where there are no walls. So we have a dedicated charging port as well that, like our laptops, is designed to take anything from 10 to 25 volts. You can throw any kind of junky power at it. So can you show me some power options? We've got a lot of power options here. You have a hand crank. We've always got a crank. That's the one I've been waiting for. We've always got a crank. We've had this crank forever. Everybody remembers our hand cranks. The problem with the hand crank actually has not been the hand crank, but it's been the laptop because the laptop takes too much power. So by now going to an ARM processor and a tablet form factor, sure you can. You're going to hold it? It's good for you. I'll hold it like that. All right, so how am I going to know it's going to start? You're just going to keep going a little faster. Just keep going. Keep going. Keep going. You can do it. You can do it. There's a little bit of a green light inside here that's hard to see. Oh, there I see it. It's orange. Yes, and that means it's charging. Oh my God. It means you are charging the battery. And so how many cranks per charging? Well, it's about... We've finally gotten up to where we think we can get about a 10 to one ratio. I'll take this having too. So you do this for six minutes and you get an hour of usage. It's not really a primary power source, but it's a good way of demonstrating that any kind of irregular, erratic, dirty, messy power that you can generate is really suitable for the tablet. Okay. And so you've also got a different lid. We've also got a cover that works like a solar panel, because it is a solar panel. So a solar panel with a thin-packed battery behind it. So while you're using the tablet, you can set this out in the sun. And then this is a four-watt solar panel. So if you've got two watts or less on the tablet, it means that this can get a two to one ratio. You leave this outside for an hour and you can get two hours of run time here. Okay. Once you get this all charged up, you can snap it on the back of the tablet. That one's not working right now. Can I see that one real quick? So this one's not working right now, but when you have it, it will have these little... It has a couple little connectors, because these screws here are the screws that you use to take the tablet apart, because like our laptops, it's designed to be easy to disassemble and repair. But there are also electrical connections. So you can put this into a cover and then make electrical connections here and here and actually run off the battery that you have right in there as well. That's great. That's really awesome. Okay. So you're going to have an option for a LCD, I mean for a Pixel Qi outdoor readable. This is a regular LCD right now. 1024 by 600 resolution. 768. So 40-3 ratio. Okay, great. So let's talk a little bit about the software. I know you'd like to demo it because it's a little bit early. Well what we do, again, we give people a lot of options on our software. So what we're showing here is the Linux based software that we've used on our existing laptops. So this is called Sugar. The desktop is called Sugar. The desktop is called Sugar. You can own desktop or can use a regular environment as well. But it gives people the choice to use a lot of the educational activities that we've used in the past, like the measure activity for collecting data. You might want to look at, we have a couple of what we call Wikipedia slices. So these are a subset of Wikipedia in English and in Spanish. And these provide you with complete offline functionality. So you have a substantial reference library on your own right here. So you can look at an article, any of these articles, learn about stars. So this is saved to the internal storage. It's on the internal storage. How much storage there? There's 4 gigabytes of internal storage. And this all takes up about 1 gigabyte. And so you have an option to add your own data, add your own books or whatever. So I'm noticing with the software, it's sort of optimized for desktop use right now. Are you guys doing some things to make it more finger friendly? Because when I go like this. We are. You can do things like to take these applications. Some of these applications are existing unmodified ones. One of the things we're trying to do is say you can run the stuff you already have and you can do new applications that take advantage of the tablet. Okay. And this is the browser. We don't have any Wi-Fi right now. We do have a browser built in just like we do with our laptops. So you have complete access and the same networking technologies that we have. So this is the Wiki. Cool. Well, that is a really nice first look. Thank you so much. Well, thanks.
 Hey guys, this is Joanna for The Verge and I'm here at CES 2012 with one of the most
 exciting products of the show.
 This is the OLPC XO tablet.
 It is the successor to the original OLPC laptop.
 And just like the original laptop, this is a rugged tablet.
 It's an 8-inch tablet.
 Going to take a look at the hardware now with some help from OLPC's CTO Ed McNerney.
 Sure.
 We've got, you know, a fairly standard port configuration but with some options that are
 designed really for the audiences that we're trying to serve.
 So we have a standard USB, full-size USB port for thumb drives, sneaker nets, really important
 where we go.
 We've got headphone and microphone jacks, has the same stereo input and output that
 we have on our laptops.
 The microphone jack is also designed to be a DC sensor jack so you can hook up thermometers
 or other kinds of data collection tools.
 A USB on-the-go port which you can use for connecting peripherals.
 It's a micro USB.
 So it's also available as a charging port.
 Okay, so you can charge this through that too.
 You can charge it through a regular 5-volt port.
 The problem is, you know, even though there's a lot of tablets that use that as their only
 charging option, it's really limited.
 It's great if you've got a wall-ward adapter and a wall to plug it into.
 We go places where there are no walls.
 So we have a dedicated charging port as well that, like our laptops, is designed to take
 anything from 10 to 25 volts.
 You can throw any kind of junky power at it.
 So can you show me some power options?
 We've got a lot of power options here.
 You have a hand crank.
 We've always got a crank.
 That's the one I've been waiting for.
 We've always got a crank.
 We've had this crank forever.
 Everybody remembers our hand cranks.
 The problem with the hand crank actually has not been the hand crank, but it's been the
 laptop because the laptop takes too much power.
 So by now going to an ARM processor and a tablet form factor, sure you can.
 You're going to hold it?
 It's good for you.
 I'll hold it like that.
 All right, so how am I going to know it's going to start?
 You're just going to keep going a little faster.
 Just keep going.
 Keep going.
 Keep going.
 You can do it.
 You can do it.
 There's a little bit of a green light inside here that's hard to see.
 Oh, there I see it.
 It's orange.
 Yes, and that means it's charging.
 Oh my God.
 It means you are charging the battery.
 And so how many cranks per charging?
 Well, it's about... We've finally gotten up to where we think we can get about a 10
 to one ratio.
 I'll take this having too.
 So you do this for six minutes and you get an hour of usage.
 It's not really a primary power source, but it's a good way of demonstrating that any
 kind of irregular, erratic, dirty, messy power that you can generate is really suitable for
 the tablet.
 Okay.
 And so you've also got a different lid.
 We've also got a cover that works like a solar panel, because it is a solar panel.
 So a solar panel with a thin-packed battery behind it.
 So while you're using the tablet, you can set this out in the sun.
 And then this is a four-watt solar panel.
 So if you've got two watts or less on the tablet, it means that this can get a two to
 one ratio.
 You leave this outside for an hour and you can get two hours of run time here.
 Okay.
 Once you get this all charged up, you can snap it on the back of the tablet.
 That one's not working right now.
 Can I see that one real quick?
 So this one's not working right now, but when you have it, it will have these little...
 It has a couple little connectors, because these screws here are the screws that you
 use to take the tablet apart, because like our laptops, it's designed to be easy to
 disassemble and repair.
 But there are also electrical connections.
 So you can put this into a cover and then make electrical connections here and here
 and actually run off the battery that you have right in there as well.
 That's great.
 That's really awesome.
 Okay.
 So you're going to have an option for a LCD, I mean for a Pixel Qi outdoor readable.
 This is a regular LCD right now.
 1024 by 600 resolution.
 768.
 So 40-3 ratio.
 Okay, great.
 So let's talk a little bit about the software.
 I know you'd like to demo it because it's a little bit early.
 Well what we do, again, we give people a lot of options on our software.
 So what we're showing here is the Linux based software that we've used on our existing
 laptops.
 So this is called Sugar.
 The desktop is called Sugar.
 The desktop is called Sugar.
 You can own desktop or can use a regular environment as well.
 But it gives people the choice to use a lot of the educational activities that we've used
 in the past, like the measure activity for collecting data.
 You might want to look at, we have a couple of what we call Wikipedia slices.
 So these are a subset of Wikipedia in English and in Spanish.
 And these provide you with complete offline functionality.
 So you have a substantial reference library on your own right here.
 So you can look at an article, any of these articles, learn about stars.
 So this is saved to the internal storage.
 It's on the internal storage.
 How much storage there?
 There's 4 gigabytes of internal storage.
 And this all takes up about 1 gigabyte.
 And so you have an option to add your own data, add your own books or whatever.
 So I'm noticing with the software, it's sort of optimized for desktop use right now.
 Are you guys doing some things to make it more finger friendly?
 Because when I go like this.
 We are.
 You can do things like to take these applications.
 Some of these applications are existing unmodified ones.
 One of the things we're trying to do is say you can run the stuff you already have and
 you can do new applications that take advantage of the tablet.
 Okay.
 And this is the browser.
 We don't have any Wi-Fi right now.
 We do have a browser built in just like we do with our laptops.
 So you have complete access and the same networking technologies that we have.
 So this is the Wiki.
 Cool.
 Well, that is a really nice first look.
 Thank you so much.
 Well, thanks.