Pixel Qi screen demo Live from Taipei
Posted by admin in Kindle Saturday, 8 January 2011 03:50 25 Comments
This is it, the revolutionary LCD screen by Pixel Qi that turns your netbook into a Kindle by the flip of a switch. As you can see in this video, thanks to Pixel Qi, screens can now be very usable outdoors in a black and white mode just as well as indoors in full color and bright back light mode. This is the first batch of the first working prototypes of this screen, and as you can see, it already looks amazing. Mass production of these screens are planned to be launched soon and should be available in any netbook (and later other devices such as smartphones) as long as the manufacturers decide that they want to integrate one in their products.
I am writing this comment outdoors on a Dell E6400 and I can’t see a goddamn thing on the screen. Why is it taking so long for manufacturers to get this technology to market.
@Charbax Impressive! I think some video editing would help a lot
Arm and Intel both are terrible in terms of computation per watt compared to whats is out there but is politically band.
the trick is to go to tubifier (dot) com to get this mp3.
People, imagine the iPad with this screen. Really?! This is what we are waiting for. Interactive paper. How beautiful would a matte iPad with this screen look? Back to the basic reading experience that doesn’t hurt your brain and your eyes.
sunlight ? what sunlight ? you kept the camera low on purpose
I have pre-glare screen in my laptop – one of the last available for request and it works the same way as this new Pixel Qi; so what’s the difference between old no glare screen technology and this?
so it just gets rid of glare?
Is the viewing angle good?
The COO is extremely eloquent
I like that Charbax is as excited and I would be while scoping these new display technologies
Hello can anybody say what is the price for this screen? i am interested for my netbook!
This is cool technology.
I have a couple thoughts on this.
1) Someone should make a netbook with a pixel qi screen and a snapdragon processor (at leats 1.5 GHz)
2) How can i get a pixel qi screen on my netbook along with a backlight toggle switch?
a convertible laptop/tablet with this display would certainly pique my curiosity… if it was a light power-efficient machine you could pop in an SSD and have amazing battery life for a laptop, and decent e-reader style device (not just for ebooks, but for browsing as well due to the refresh rate)
the touchscreen limitations make sense, and really you could just have a trackpad beside the screen… for most uses a trackpad is superior to a touchscreen anyway, due to the easier access
@Charbax 10.1″ Pixel Qi Laptop that also turns into a tablet could be good enough for the Laptop part. Of course the Laptop needs to be ARM Powered and weigh less than 800gr and run 50-200 hours on a small battery. Both the 10.1″ Chrome/Android Laptop and 4.8″ Android Tablet and should cost less than $200 unlocked.
@dranwang C: 1 13.3″ Pixel Qi Laptop and 1 4.8″ Pixel Qi Android Tablet and then obviously a 42″ 1080p HDTV the office monitor and 1080p Projector for the living room.
SURVEY EVERYONE, please choose set A or B:
A) 1 laptop with Pixel Qi screen, 1 smartphone (iphone or android with Pixel Qi as well), 1 tablet.
B) 1 laptop with 3D screen and cool glasses (HD TV?), 1 smartphone (same as above).
Assumption the price will end up pretty much equal.
!
Happy choosing
e-book priority is highly overrated at this point in time with all that hype. I suppose this tech has drawback e.g. for gaming & watching movies maybe?
Smartphones, tablets, and business lightweight laptops will benefit most from this tech, but I don’t know about PC and heavy duty laptops (Although, the growth of tablets itself is – and has always been – driven by geek factor). Why own more than 1 mobile device (and smart phone)? Unless it’s cheapo and it has a really good sync feature.
yeah, that’s why the iPhone sold like crap…
please…..
Looks like one of my Fathers holiday movies.
Oh yes, i was overlooking something. A good anti-glare/anti-reflective coating usually reacts to finger/palmprints or any liquid residue in a very nasty manner. That’s why “touchscreen surfaces don’t usually have those kind of optical properties we are trying to reach”
AFAIK touchscreen is pretty much a separate part from a display, which is placed in front of the display. Capacitative sensor of high sensitivity can even be placed behind a display if the shielding is removed and placed behind the sensor.
So unless i’m totally overlooking something, i don’t see why a particular display technology wouldn’t work either with or without a touchscreen.
Incredible
looks alright. The zooming in and out all the time made me sick thou.