Tossing aside its iconic green-and-white laptop with its distinctive antennas, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is pursuing a smaller 2.0 version, scheduled for release in 2010, in which dual touch screens will replace the keypad.
The new version will have lower power consumption and a $75 price--a figure that OLPC claims is achievable despite the fact that the current model, the XO, sells for nearly double the sum mentioned in its "$100 laptop" moniker.

Text from MIT's Technology Review

This is a story that starts with a brilliant idealist and a great deal of money, so you may already guess it ends in recrimination and abject failure. But the interesting thing about the implosion of the one laptop per child (OLPC) project is that it teaches an important lesson to grownups, if not to the children who were meant to be its beneficiaries.

The OLPC scheme, originally known as the $100 laptop plan, was a project to build a small, simple, robust and cheap laptop that would revoluti more...