On Dec 22, 4:04*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Dec 22, 12:45*pm, Richard wrote:



On Dec 22, 11:49*am, Tim Taylor wrote:

On Dec 22, 12:00*pm, Richard wrote:

On Dec 22, 6:47*am, Tim Taylor wrote:

Pixel Qi display with both e-text and color display modes.

http://www.pixelqi.com/products

http://techland.com/2009/05/30/pixel...-is-the-future...

Tim,

The *Pixel Qi screen is OK in the sun notice they did not show any
true colors in the picture. * *If you want to see the best in the sun.

http://www.hvgc.com.au/blog/?p=262

It is designed for sunlight readabiltiy.

I have not seen anything better, and I have looked.

Richardwww.craggyaero.com

I don't need color and the reduced energy use would be extremely
helpful in the glider. *I look forward to this technology being tried
for use in the glider. *I don't see any data on the refresh rates in
the e-paper mode, that will be the determining factor if one can be
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Tim,

I suspect that it would be rather hard to find a black and white
display, and I would guess that they don't use any less power.

If you don't want color you could probably *turn it off with SeeYou
Mobile software.

Richardwww.craggyaero.com

Richard

You need to read the link Tim posted.

I've mentioned Pixel Qi here before as a future interesting display
technology. Pixel Qi has a reflective LCD monochrome display with some
"color hinting" in full daylight that runs with full color and
backlight indoors. It is likely the most interesting near term
evolution in consumer display technology and should appear in
netbooks, e-book readers, tablets, etc. It's a pretty simple
transition for vendors using current LCD displays to adopt the Pixel
Qi display. They have high pixel density, low power (compared to
conventional LCD).Unliek e-ink you get full motion and video etc. But
it consumes significantly more power than e-ink. But personally I
think e-ink type displays are too limiting even for e-book readers.
Longer term we've got OLED, DMD and color e-ink technologies coming,
but they have their own problems and will take longer to arrive in
strength.

Darryl

Actually, there are prototype full-color "electronic-ink" displays
being shown around to product developers. The press releases say they
are fast enough for video.

I expect that within a year or so we'll have paper thin reflective-
only extremely low power displays that look like magazine covers.
Glider cockpits will never be the same.