$100 Laptop's UI to be kid tested in February

dfoulger writes: "I suppose its old news by some measures, but the Associated Press reports that kid testing of Negroponte's "$100 Laptop" starts in February. It provides what may be the first mainstream coverage of just how different the user interface of the XO Computer, which ditches the traditional office metaphors in favor of an activity-based journaling approach, is. Video of Sugar, as the UI is called, has been out on the net for a while, and Popular Science recently gave the screen a "Grand Award" in in 2006 technology roundup. Testing on kids is scheduled to start in February. What do you think of this new UI?"