The XO-3 design is almost finished. And there is a steady stream of loving video and photo coverage of the first prototypes, from the gadget-geek journalists at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
I have a less flashy version of the prototype on my desk, but have yet to touch acquire one of the magical solar tablet-covers. (yes, it’s what you think. yes, it makes sense for all devices below a certain power-to-area ratio… a ratio that gets larger in the tropics.)
fuseproject‘s design work is, as usual, interstellar.
Hat tip to Neal Stephenson for extra inspiration this time around. (Update: as Kim Bruning notes, now we need to write the primer.)
Update: a video of an XO powered only by a solar panel twice its area. that’s using the least expensive solar tech; panels twice that density can be had for under $4/Watt .