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3M invests in Pixel Qi, enables expansion of sunlight readable display tech

Brad Linder — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:21:51 +0000

Pixel Qi has been producing sunlight readable LCD display technology for a couple of years. Founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who also designed the sunlight readable displays used in the original OLPC XO Laptop, the company produces dual-mode screens that can be used with or without a backlight. When the backlight is on the display looks much like any other...

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Quanta and 3M developing touchscreens for finger, stylus input

Brad Linder — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:19:06 +0000

While it's not a hard and fast rule, I've gotten kind of used to the fact that most tablets, smartphones, and other devices with touchscreen displays released over the past few years come in one of two varieties. Either you have a touchscreen that recognizes finger input (capacitive), or stylus input (resistive). You rarely get both (although resistive displays which...

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3M launches privacy filters for 10 inch netbook screens

Brad Linder — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:17 +0000

If you've ever used a laptop in a coffee shop, library, park, or other public location, odds are you've had someone look over your shoulder to see what you're doing. That's why there's a cottage industry for laptop screen privacy filters. A privacy filter is a piece of plastic that you can place over your laptop display to seriously restrict...

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