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Hands-on With Pixel Qi Screens In Full Sunlight

Posted by timothy on from the no-shame-in-salivating dept.

griffjon writes with this drool-inducing bit, describing a "side-by-side comparison of the OLPC's screen and an Acer with the new Pixel Qi screen installed, both of course sharing Mary Lou Jepsen's screen technology: 'The XO's dual mode screen still rules in terms of pixel resolution at 1200 x 900 vs. the Acer's 1024 x 600. It was amazing to see Windows 7, Amazon Kindle software, the New York Times web site and a QuickTime video in direct sunlight. Shades of gray and some color tints are visible. Besides the XOs and e-ink based Kindle ereaders, no other color screen device I own can be seen as clearly in sunlight. Not even the famed iPad. In the video, you can see that at a certain angle where line of sight and sun are aligned, the new Pixel Qi screen glows as if backlit!'"

5 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Outside, leave the laptop at home by AnonymousClown · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're outside, you should, you know, be outside, doing outsidey kinds of things.

    You mean like: masturbating, having sex with animals, anal sex, sex, peeping, ... things like that?

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  2. Re:Recipe For Success by YourExperiment · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pixel Qi + Cortex + Android + MeeGo + Open-Source Hardware + XO Laptop + Arduino

    Oh god, I thought you were describing an actual device for a minute there. I think I just had a nerdgasm.

  3. Re:here we go by Civil_Disobedient · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lighten up, Francis.

  4. Oh Crap by AttillaTheNun · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is just great. So much for telling my kids to go outside to play to get them off the video games.

  5. Re:Outside, leave the laptop at home by jgardia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Move here to Munich! you won't have any problem about full sunlight, but maybe you will need a weatherproof notebook...