Screens Pixel Qi 3Qi Magic E-Paper and High-Res LCD Dual Display Becomes Real Next Month
By
Matt Buchanan on
April 24, 2009 at 1:29 AM
The display technology Pixel Qi has been promising is revolutionary: A high-res colour LCD and low-power, reflective reader mode
better than E-ink. For dirt cheap. And it’s
coming next month.
If you recall, PixelQi’s founder, Mary Lou Jepsen, is the brains behind the
OLPC’s breakthrough reflective screen, and an evangelist for the idea that the future of the computer is in displays. When we talked to her about the problems with e-readers, she predicted that LCD would overtake electrophoretic display technology—aka E-ink—by 2010.
The idea isn’t crazy if Pixel Qi’s displays
match the hype:
One screen that delivers a high-res, colour LCD for normal computer stuff; an e-paper mode that’s even more readable than e-ink; and a super low-power black-and-white mode. And is cheap to make and advance, since it’s fabricated in standard LCD factories. It makes the possibility of a single tablet computer that really can do
everything that much more possible.
And we’ll get to see the first one, 3Qi, next month. Sure, it’s just a stupid screen, but I’m excited.