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Well, last year OLPC released the $200 laptop. It is cheap, but not yet their target, isn’t it? However, OLPC stated that their next target is to reach the $75 computer and next, well, the…$20 computer. Speaking of cheap laptops…

I don’t know how they will reach this target, really, what can they remove from those computers to make them cost $20? What could they possibly remove? We had a target here, the 5000 Euro car, for which, personally I have paid 10200 Euro…pretty far away, isn’t it? But the target sounds good and people keep an eye on XO laptop.

I know that Intel and other big companies joined forces to reach the target. I don’t know how much they actually believe in this, but sounds good and it is a good marketing thing to do, getting involved in educational projects with such heavenly targets…

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Israeli researchers Marianna Khorzov and David Andelman from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, and Rafi Shikler, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ben Gurion University say that considering current research, in a few years we may have flexible laptops and 1 cm thick TV screens. Well, it would be very interesting to see this.

For this, scientists say that the conventional materials will be replaced and soon we could rely on plastic based transistors and organic light sources. If it sounds strange to you to have plastic based transistors, they also say that these components are easier and cheaper to make. Imagine that!

This was actually a report published in Physics World. Researchers stated that current display technologies are rigid, consume more energy that organic based technology and it may be soon replaced by organic based components, which could bring high changes including in the cost price considering the fact they are cheaper.

“We expect that, for many applications, these materials will gradually replace silicon and metals, and may even make possible entirely new technologies in the field of bionics,” the researchers said.

I personally wait to see how those flexible laptops will look like. If you think about, people try to build rugged laptops, to be as strong as possible, to not be easily damaged and on the other hand people try to make them flexible…
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