Children have an amazing capacity to let us know how they use the laptop and what they want. The design of the next-generation XO is in response to their passion for learning, for sharing with each other, and for self-expression.

The XOXO is challenging what a truly collaborative and creative computing experience could be...a true departure from the traditional keyboard and screen layout, a new way to interface and play with data, information and communication:

• imagine if your learning machine was an un-interrupted screen one could interface with from any direction
• imagine if it was a reading experience just like a book, and at the same time a seamless large visual tablet
• imagine if children could play board games sitting across from each other (or computer games).

The XOXO is a book, a tablet, a board...and yes, a laptop too thanks to a virtual touch keyboard. The design is still green and white, but thin, simple, and un-interrupted by keyboards, buttons, speaker holes and visible connectors. And it is soft to the touch, like a piece of luggage, everyday luggage you can take anywhere.

Planned for early 2010, the XOXO should be the next learning object of desire, from Bogota, to Istanbul, to New York. <<

Among these drawings of ordinary objects rendered oversized and set in urban landscapes was Block of Concrete Inscribed with Names of War Heroes (1965). The massive block was supposed to fill the heavily traveled intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in lower Manhattan, a spot which, according to local Cold War-era lore, would be the ideal target for someone who wanted to drop an atomic bomb on New York City." -Art in America, Jan, 2001 by Suzaan Boettger. For the full article, click here

What better place to open our NY office with David Adjaye, our architect friend from London <<