A Look At OLPC's XO 3.0 Tablet's Solar And Kinetic Chargers

As I’ve been writing for the past week, alternative energy sources for gadgets will be a big trend at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). OLPC’s XO 3.0 tablet illustrates this trend in an intriguing way. The tablet is the latest iteration of the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit’s attempt to make computing devices affordable enough to be distributed in mass quantities to children who wouldn’t otherwise have access to computers. In the past, these devices have been laptops. The next OLPC, however, will be an 8-inch tablet.