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[http://www.vendian.org/howbig/?&ppdm=800&ph=150&page=millipaper How Big Are Things? at 800dpi] might show up life-size on the laptop.
[http://www.vendian.org/howbig/?&ppdm=800&ph=150&page=millipaper How Big Are Things? at 800dpi] might show up life-size on the laptop.

==NASA's Visible Earth images for OLPC countries - Possible demo content?==
NASA's [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Visible Earth] has images [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2046 sorted by country].
Perhaps they might make good demo fodder.
Some are whole country, others just a feature. Some are topical (some fire, or erosion, etc). Most have descriptive text (in english). Some stereo pairs.
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2246 Argentina]
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2249 Brazil]
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2073 Libia]
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2083 Nigeria]
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2260 Uruguay]
*[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2085 Rwanda]

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Random brainstorming

In User_talk:MitchellNCharity. And Talk:Educational_content_ideas#Laptop as flexible physical object (ruler, etc).

How Big Are Things? at 800dpi might show up life-size on the laptop.

NASA's Visible Earth images for OLPC countries - Possible demo content?

NASA's Visible Earth has images sorted by country. Perhaps they might make good demo fodder. Some are whole country, others just a feature. Some are topical (some fire, or erosion, etc). Most have descriptive text (in english). Some stereo pairs.