Tuesday, November 20, 2007

One Laptop (Design) Per Child

Remember when we were kids, and we would pretend to build a TV out of pieces of paper? We would cut out television "knobs", and then we'd cut out the screen, and then use different pieces of paper for different "shows". No? I did. It was pretty neat back then.

Nowadays kids are creating pretend laptops out of paper. The "Laptop Club" is an afterschool club formed by 7-to-9 year old kids, and they design laptops using construction paper. The laptop designs are cute, with keyboards in alphabetical order (instead of your usual QWERTY sequence), numeric keypads going up to 10, and dedicated buttons for shopping, games, hamsters, "imediet buy" and in one particular instance, bringing up an iPod and an iPhone.

Pretty neat stuff. One day one of these kids might be the next Jonathan Ive.

The Morning News, via Gizmodo

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