Laptops seem to come in only a few different styles: black, white, and somewhere boring in between. The One Laptop Per Child Charity Auction, December 3rd to December 12th at Design Miami, aims to change that. The online auction, presented by Luminaire, features pieces inspired by laptops, each created by an up and coming contemporary artist.

Ugo Rodinone

Better still, all of the proceeds will go to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a philanthropic effort to bring computers to the children of developing nations.

Cindy Sherman

In order to provide computers to as many children as possible, OLPC had to create a laptop that was both functional and affordable. The $100 laptop has arrived, and it's a minor revolution. Created for OLPC by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, and crafted by the trailblazing designer Yves Behar the XO laptop, named for it's bold typographic logo, doesn't need to be plugged in. It runs on solar power and can be recharged by hand. It also connects automatically to the Internet, and to other XO machines, even from remote locations.

Richard Tuttle

Add all these features up, and you start to wonder why no one has tried this before. The auction is a chance to give to a great cause and win a piece of art that is equal parts technical and collectible.

-- Benjamin Popper