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Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency

Posted by timothy on from the fewer-electrons-means-more-money-for-food dept.

MechEMark writes with this excerpt from a hope-inspiring article at the IEEE Spectrum, which says "Researchers from Microsoft say they've built a prototype of a display screen using a technology that essentially mimics the optics in a telescope but at the scale of individual display pixels. The result is a display that is faster and more energy efficient than a liquid crystal display, or LCD, according to research reported yesterday in Nature Photonics ... The design greatly increases the amount of backlight that reaches the screen. The researchers were able to get about 36 percent of the backlight out of a pixel, more than three times as much light as an LCD can deliver. But Microsoft senior research engineer Michael Sinclair says that through design improvements, he expects that number to go up — theoretically, as high as 75 percent."

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  1. One problem. by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only colour plane that works right now is blue.

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    1. Re:One problem. by justhatched · · Score: 5, Funny

      The only colour plane that works right now is blue.

      But how do you know whether to reboot the display or the PC?

    2. Re:One problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The only colour plane that works right now is blue.

      The blue is a feature. It has a calming effect while you contact tech support to ask why your computer was bricked by the new and exciting upgrade you just installed. The loud hum coming from the monitor is also supposed to be a relaxing sound and the smoke is supposed to remind you of a warm fireplace much like the smoke from an Xbox does.

  2. obviously by r00t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can even think of two ways to block Linux.

    If you can too, SHUT UP ABOUT IT!

  3. it's microsoft... by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... quickly bash them, before they do anything good.

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