One Laptop Per Child XO Compuer
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Quanta Computer Inc.
- Collaborator
- Nicholas Negroponte, American, b. 1943
- Designer
- Yves Béhar, Swiss, active USA, b. 1967
- Bret Recor, American, b. 1974
- fuseproject, American, founded 1999
- Description
- Open: two green panels flip up at front coners to open cover, clam-shell style, revealing LCD screen flanked by two pierced circular speakers and function buttons, surmounting bright green rubber keyboard above white trackpad; USB, headphone, and microphone ports on side of screen. When in the upright position, the green corner panels, reminiscment of animal ears, act as wi-fi antennas. Closed: flat, off-white rectangular form with green edging, wide rectangular slit as carrying handle at one end, flanked by two holes. Light green plastic X and red circle recessed in cover.
- Credit Line
- Gift of George R. Kravis II
- 2007
- Accession Number
- 2015-5-8-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- computer
- Type
- computer
- Medium
- ABS plastic, polycarbonate, rubber, liquid crystal display, electronic components; steel, copper (power plug)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (closed): 3.5 × 22.9 × 24.1 cm (1 3/8 in. × 9 in. × 9 1/2 in.)
- manufactured in
- China
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2015-5-8-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq499418aeb-042e-4077-8648-cbb0ee94ea0f
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