Sugar: $100 laptop’s bittersweet interface

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Educational hardware pioneer One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has its hands full juggling priorities–developing nations, pricing and user interface (UI) among them. Nick Negroponte’s nonprofit recently published screenshots and test downloads of its freshly-designed UI, called Sugar. Built from scratch at Red Hat, it features a plump little stick figure in the center–representing the user–other stick figures to indicate nearby users in the wireless network, and tasks or programs arrayed in a circle around the central figure.

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