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There has been a lot of tablet talk lately. And most have been slated for release in 2010. But we haven’t really looked to the future in terms of tablets. Like, tablets are the future; so what’s the future of the future?

Well Nicholas Negroponte, head of the OLPC, hopes it to look like this. OLPC’s XO-3 is Negroponte’s $75 dream that he himself admits probably won’t happen. But it’s always a good idea to dream these things up, maybe someone else will make it. It is a very cool and innovative idea. What the XO-3 is, is an 8.5x11-inch multitouch tablet, with a backlit display, and made on a semi-flexible plastic. It would use less than a watt of power to keep the 8 gigahertz processor and a Pixel Qi screen powered. This thing is also conceptualized to be half the thickness of the iPhone with an included camera on the back.

Unfortunately, most of this design is based on technology that is not here yet. So if OLPC does decide to take this commercial, they will have to wait for technology to catch up. Let’s just hope they don’t have to wait as long as James Cameron had to to make Avatar.

Read [Engadget]