No good deed goes unpunished...

The Asus EEE really helped launch the market for cheap notebooks and costs are only going to get lower now that the idea is getting popular. Soon it will be cheaper for them to simply buy off-the-shelf netbooks and ship them to children. The OLPC really didn't have that much that made it uniquely suited for the job.

Sugar was "interesting" in the way that requires quotation marks when you say it, but it probably did more harm than good. It made a slow machine even slower and it certainly doesn't encourage practical computer skills. Children are clever. You don't need to make computers simple to make it easier for THEM to use.

That whole mesh WiFi thing was stupid idea. I'm told that it also killed the battery life.

I liked the clamshell-to-tablet design.

You can make you own flouroscope. Go on eBay and look for "x-ray film carrier" or trays. There are green and blue sensitized trays. These contain a sheet of plastic that is in contact with the film. When the x-rays hit the plastic sheet they cause it to glow which exposes the film. The x-rays alone would expose the film, but the florescent plastic enchances the image allows exposure times to be cut -- thus minimizing patient exposure to radiation. At any rate, there are two type -- green and blue. The green is brighter, the blue has better contrast. The plastic is embedded with rare-earth minerals (I think they use zink sulfide for green). You can remove the plastic from the film carriers and make your own floroscope... I'm working on making a digital video x-ray machine. Later on I'm going to try to make my own CAT scanner. I just need help with the software.