Designer Yves Behar recently shared some images and details from his most recent involvement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The OLPC project was started by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte as a non-profit effort to get cheap hundred-dollar laptops into the hands of schoolchildren in the developing world. The new model known as the XO-3 is targeted for launch in 2012 and should be a significant upgrade to the XO computer. As shown in the early designs for the XO-3, the world can expect an extremely minimal 8.5-by-11 inch slate that is touch powered and supposedly half the width of an iPhone.

“I wanted to bring the One Laptop Per Child identity to life in this new form,” says Yves Behar, founder of FuseProject, which designed the both the original and the XO-3. “That meant taking the visual complexity away, bringing tactility and friendliness, touch and color.”

Read more about it on Forbes.

Great job guys. As quoted from the Lego Matrix site:

“Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, “Trinity Help” is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego. By “frame accurate” we mean that we took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (that’s nearly 900 frames for just 44 seconds of footage) and reproduced them all in Lego. This was time-consuming to say the least, taking us something like 440 hours to make the completed movie. At that ratio of 10 hours per second we figured we could do the whole film in about 9 years, so long we didn’t need to eat or sleep. As a full-time job then, we’re probably looking at 25 years or so. No thanks.”

Read more about the project on the Lego Matrix site.