OLPC XO-2 Mock Up Shows Up at Davos

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This week Davos, Switzerland is home to the World Economic Forum. Gathering with the leading political, economic and intellectual leaders of the world seems to be an early One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO -2 prototype or mockup.

Tariq Krim, the founder of NetVibes and JoliCloud, caught a short hands-on shot of the mockup device. While we are pretty excited to see an OLPC XO-2 photo taken in the wild, it turns out that it was a non-working unit and is most likely the unit used to shoot the pictures that were released when the XO-2 was announced back in May. The X0-2 is OLPC's next generation educational computing device it is planned to be an all touch laptop.

Either way, we still think the little device looks like money. Here is hoping that the next prototype we see turns on!

Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern was a laptop reviewer and writer at Laptop Mag. She reviewed notebooks big and small, including models from MSI, Asus, Toshiba, and Lenovo. This was right at the beginning of her impressive career in journalism. Since then, she's become one of the most recognizable voices in consumer tech. Joanna now works with The Wall Street Journal, and was previously a founding editor at The Verge. After Laptop Mag, she worked at Engadget as a reviews editor. Joanna has won a News & Documentary Emmy Award as well as two Gerald Loeb Awards.