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Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency

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. Engineers by Whiteox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft have engineers? Shit! What next!!!
    I mean I know that they design software and they outsource everything else, but inhouse hardware engineers?
    Is this new? Have they had them for long? R&D???
    I'm gobsmacked!

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    1. Re:Engineers by Whiteox · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Hey! Someone just modded me redundant!
      That's what my wife keeps telling me too!

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  2. Microsoft doing something worthwhile by maroberts · · Score: 1, Redundant

    reported on Slashdot.

    Error - does not compute

    I think I just BSOD'd myself.

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  3. Uh... by Artuir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft has engineers? And they invented something useful??

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???