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hey guys this is Joanna for the version I am 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 oil pc 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 our LPC's CTO ed McNerney sure we've got you know fairly standard port configuration but with some options that are designed really for the the audience's that we're trying to serve so you have a standard USB full-size USB port for thumb drive sneaker that's really important where we go we've got a headphone and microphone jacks has the same stereo input and output that we have 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 charges to charge it through a regular 5 volt port the problem is 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 wart adapter and a wall to plug it into right 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 router options a lot of power options here you have a hand crank I've always got a grating we've always got a crank we've had this crank forever yeah everybody remembers our hand cranks the problem with the hand crank actually has not been a hand crank but it's been the laptop because the laptop takes too much power okay so by now going to an ARM processor and crab form factor sure weekend you're gonna hold that good for I'll hold it like right so how am I going to know it's going to see you ready to keep going little faster keep going keep going to tonys doing alright night okay so now there's a little light on inside here that's hard to see now I see it okay it's orange and it yes and that means it's charging I don't you are charging the battery and so how many times for charging well it's about we've finally gotten up to where we think we can get about a 10 to 1 ratio so you do this for six minutes 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 for the tablet all right and so you've also got a different lid also got a cover that works like a solar panel and that is a solar panel so solar panel with a thin pack battery behind it so while you're using the tablet you can set this out in the Sun and then this is a 4 watt solar panel so if you've got to watts or less on the tablet means that this can get a two-to-one ratio you leave this outside for an hour you can get two hours of runtime here once you get this all charged up you can snap it on the back of the of the tablet that one's not working right now how about that one roof 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 is designed to be easily disassembled 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 as they have that's really are as well okay so 8 inch screen you're going to have an option for a LCD I mean for a pixel Qi routes are readable this is a regular LCD right now 1024 x 600 resolution 768 support a free ratio okay great so let's talk a little bit about the software i know you're you'd like to demo it because it's a little bit early well what we do you know again we give people a lot of options on our software so you know we're showing here is the linux based software that we've used on our existing laptops this is called sugar the desktop is called sugar how people could use a ground 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 you know any of these articles learn about stars this is safe to the internal storage it's on the internal storage there there's four gigabytes of internal storage and this all takes us about one gigabyte and so you have an option to add your own data add your own book sir 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 like when we like this we are eating here you can do things like to take these applications some of these applications are existing unmodified 11 of things we're trying to do is say you can all you can run the stuff you already have and you can do new applications that take advantage of the pan 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 laptop so you have you have complete access and the same networking technologies that we have this is the wiki long cool well that is a really nice first look thank you so much well thanks