• MSI's two-screen wonder looks a lot like that extinct OLPC 2.0

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    Monday, January 11th, 2010

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    Remember that OLPC design that had two touchscreens joined at the hip, kind of like we saw with the Courier later? Yeah, it got canned, but the basic design seems to have lived on in this MSI concept.

    I begged and pleaded but they wouldn’t let me play with it or the bigger version… and then I saw why: the large one was basically a transparent printout over an LED backlight. The little one I think was actually showing a real display, but now I’m starting to doubt that as well. They were kept under glass, like rare cakes, and even the most despicable name-dropping and assurances of MSI glory on TechCrunch left their guardians unmoved.

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