The main brain behind the wonderful screen on the OLPC laptop was Mary Lou Jepsen. The screen had a low power consumption, high screen resolution, and worked well in direct sunlight. Jepsen's start-up company Pixel Qi is tackling the design and production (by manufacturers not by Pixel Qi) of cheap, but above all, highly functional screens. Here Jepsen provides a brief update:
"We are making screens that are more readable than regular laptop
screens, and our studies show they are as comfortable to read as
electrophoretics in existing ebook readers. But these screens also
update quickly, show video, are sunlight readable and (with the
backlight on) show full color. In addition, our display screens
integrate with touchscreens of many different varieties (an analyst I
know is aware of over 200 different efforts by various companies in new
and improved touchscreens)."
10/1/2008 - The 75$ laptop.
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