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Well Gizmodo has the info again on the new OLPC XO Laptop and have to admit its looking mighty good. Although with the power consumption targets (1 watt) and set release price of only $75 one can only hope it doesn’t become another piece of vapourware. It will be made up of two sunlight-readable touch-sensitive displays, resemble a foldable e-book and will be half the size of the original XO.

At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0′s size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard and trackpad to go totally touchscreen—that’s right, dual touchscreens, straight out of the future, like a kid’s book in Minority Report. Folded all the way out, the displays work like a single continuous one, for say, a sweet game of Pong. Like XO 1.0, the display by Pixel-Qi will look fine indoors or in bright sunlight. Unfortunately, it really is from the future: Due in 2010, they’re aiming for $75 and one-watt power consumption. Update: High-res shots and full press release, and they’re calling it XOXO, or XO-2.

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You can also find further coverage at BBC News and Hexus