More problems with OLPC: Kids ripping One Laptop Per Child apart

Just last month reports were coming in about the OLPC and how the keyboard was falling apart, however it seems as if the One Laptop Per Child has some more issues. The rubber keyboard in theory should be able to withstand whatever a child can throw at it however; it seems as if the children have been able to rip the rubber-membrane keyboard apart.

Executives of OLPC claim that these UMP’s should be able to last at least five years; the One Laptop Per Child is subjected to factory testing until they manage to destroy them. The OLPC also gets field tested by children and it is in these reports that tears have started to show in the keyboard cover.

According to reports there have been a number of complaints that the rubber above the letters U and J are splitting, and as a result children as young as 3 and 4 are then able to totally destroy the keyboard. That is not all though, it seems as if the OLPC is suffering from “stuck key” problem. What this means is that one or more keys get stuck in the active position.

OLPC issued a response stating that they do not know what the problem is as there is more than one manufacturer of the keyboard.

Source – Slashdot