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hey guys Eric Franklin here from CNET we're here at CES 2012 I have with me ed McNerney chief tech officer of OLPC that's one laptop per child Ed's here to show the exo 3.0 right okay Edie take us through why this tablet is special and why I should care about it well you should care about it because our mission of providing education to kids around the world wherever they can get it is is really important to us and should be important to everybody the exo three tablet is an 8 inch tablet comes in a waterproof case it's actually waterproof itself but the case keeps things out of it and it's a tablet that's designed for education it's designed for small kids and it's designed to be fun and have a good time with it what exactly are you expecting kids to do with the tablet well we're building on the work that we've done with our xo1 tap laptop computers which we've got about two and a half million of those absolutely like they're they're designed to be you know something that you enjoy and it's comfortable sure something the kids keep coming back to all the time right but we've built not only the hardware but you know we really focus on open source software and hardware so all the educational content and all the educational tools that we've developed over the past are available on the tablet as well one of things we care about is low power and low cost and this technology uses marvels our motto 610 processor family we're actually using that in our laptops as well okay so we have a very low-power laptop and a very low-power tablet what about please speak a little bit to the software that it's actually running I heard it's running Linux it does run Linux our software is all open even the firmware is open our microphone port is actually a DC sensor input port so you can put a thermometer you put electrical measurements can actually build experiments and do that kind of stuff with so you really your give really giving kids like a canvas to kind of experiment and kind of try different things and just see what happens that's on the career that's that's a really good example because one of the things that we do with the tablet we've done with our laptops too is provide a lot of tools to teach kids how to do programming okay right and debug programming Wow because we there's a lot of evidence that says that when you're programming it's a lot like learning about learning can you speak a little bit I've heard these have like some unique ways of charging the tablet we do yeah so can you show that a little bit sure I can take one of the things that we do is our charging port here is really unique in that in a tablet industry we can take anything between 10 volts 25 volts varying power anything that you can generate out there in the world we demo that with our hand crank it's it's kind of a fun demo I wouldn't want to use this as my primary power source every day nothing else maybe I maybe as a fallback this is a 4 watt solar panel okay okay the tablet used about 2 watts so you leave this out on the Sun for an hour and it can produce enough juice to run this for 2 hours we've got a big fat standard USB port Ethernet sneakernet is really important where where we go okay and everybody's got thumb drives they got to stick into a full size port so we gave them a full size port we've got the microphone and and headphone ports yeah we talked about as well as the USB micro USB on-the-go port so you can put in those kind of peripherals you can also connect to devices to each other yeah allow some new opportunities there like if there's like a lot of our users you know consumers that they're you know normal consumers - they'd be interested in buying this is that possible could they I know we don't sell these we don't even manufacture them okay we're weird we're a little different from everybody so we we design the product we bring them you know get them ready to go we work with a manufacturing partner to do that and then we then look to the countries and the organizations that have purchased the products in the past and say ok they've got a pull and say yes we want to do that we don't build up big warehouses full of tablets and hope somebody buys them right Thank You ed thanks for bringing this by that was the oil PC EXO 3.0