alexnklein

I'm Alex, the company's founder and CEO.

Here's us talking about the product and the Microsoft partnership on TV: https://www.instagram.com/stories/alexnklein/235848341696754...

You can reach out to me directly at alex at kano dot me

Alex

I apologize on behalf of the company for this.

It sounds like you received a version that was manufactured by a bad supplier, one we've moved away from.

Let me know if we can offer you something new and fresh to make up for the fumble here. Happy to give you anything from our current line. You will be impressed and overjoyed.

Alex Klein, Cofounder & CEO, Kano

Thank you so much.

Hence a laptop/tablet. People carry these in different ways. People are stronger than they think.

Think it's a shame that such a privacy-last and openness-last machine as the Chromebook is the "standard" for kids and classrooms.

Windows isn't perfect, but it has the broadest ecosystem of applications in the world, and is far more manipulable than Chrome or iOS. Far more.

Exactly.

This is also the best battery life you'll find at under $300, per Ars Technica.

A little chunkiness goes a long way ;)

Alex Klein, Cofounder & CEO, Kano

Looking at upgrades right now - lots of chip suppliers courting us.

Alex Klein, Cofounder & CEO

In a third of cases, classrooms throw out, then replace computers rather than repairing them. Even if only one component is down.

More than 5 billion dollars is spent by US schools in this way.

While the original Kano focused on "make your own" as an experience, the new Kano PC is "click in and click out" for sustainability as well as see-through-ness.

As WIRED put it, "What's a learning experience for the kids becomes a sustainability experiment for the schools." https://www.wired.com/story/kano-pc-microsoft-partnership/

Check out the real reactions of kids opening it and using it, versus standard HP/Dell/Lenovo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXPEPu3Y6Y

Also – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_Jigoro

(Primary schoolteacher, judo inventor.)

You read our minds. We're going to launch with the Kano books translated into Spanish and Arabic, to start, and then continuing to add languages. Really important IMO to recognize that next digital generation won't just speak English, live in SF, London, etc.

You can see our first prototype – white box – at the archive link!

(You can also contribute to repairs at The Internet Archive here, just got hit by a fire: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/internet-archive-from-lond...)

Great dialectic and questions – that’s why I love HN.

I'm Alex, cofounder and product at Kano.

On monkey – thanks for kind words all. Her name's Lily, used to work in VC.

We’re working hard to make Raspberry Pi accessible to everyone. Challenge was first set by my 7-year-old cousin, to "make it as simple as Lego." The Pi is a brilliant piece of tech and the most promising "vector" yet to infect a new generation with open source.

That’s why we’ve designed and built our own custom hardware and made sure that everything – from the touchpad keyboard to the DIY speaker – works perfectly, and sparks curiosity.

We’re also rolling out our own Debian distro, Kano OS, with new UI, utilities, and software projects – all of which we’ll be open sourcing and pushing up-stream where possible. Some cool integrations too (Minecraft, Pong, Codecademy).

We’ll try to trickle these out here amid the Kickstarter (Nov 19) for raves/heckles.

Cheers, Alex