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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."
I for one welcome our new blindingly bright DRM-locked display overlords. I hope they only work with Genuine Windows Vista.
heh.
Linux, LINUX, linux, whateverisix, is never, ever going to "create". All 'ix ever does is COPY, COPY, and COPY what's already been done, and then half-ass if it ever GETS DONE !!
That's #23 in "what's wrong with linux", the continuing saga of malaise and crap in kommie software.
I'm still having trouble with the article title. Microsoft invented something? Are you sure?
No matter. The rainbow chips'll be installed on the next-gen Macs to drive the shallow homoerotic pseudo-intellectual empty shell of an overpriced hipster image. The users, that is...not the computers themselves :)
Not to rail on the real old-skool Apple users who loved the platform before it became a symbol of the chatty sex-in-the-city coffee-house faggotry of recent years.
Pixels should be enough for anyone. /Ducks
Ohh yeah i just cant wait for this, Since M$ has such a good reputation for improving other peoples work, let alone there own. I mean if you consider how much more efficent and effective Vista is. These new displays should be fantastic..... NOT!
Or a red ring of fire... We all know how reliable Microsoft Hardware is!
I donâ(TM)t think Microsoft really "design" software! they do make or develop it.... but I think design is just taking it a bit far. Design would infer they think out the process carefully. Which I think history has proven otherwise. But hey, if they can create something useful for all OS's to use... they may actual start doing well again!
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You guys should simply be ashamed of yourself.
If ANY other company than M$ had invented this, you'd be having an intersting discussion about it.
If someone involved with linux or open source had invented it, you'd all be gushing.
Instead you see how many assinine jokes you can come up with - actually it was most of you commenting on the same one wannabe rather than even coming up with something of your own.
What a bunch of losers. Get your heads out of yours collective asses.
Kudos to the TWO people that actually posted something worth reading. This site is becoming more and more worthless everytday. If I wanted jokes about everything, I'd subscribe to a mailing list.
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