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Qualcomm buys display company Pixtronix

Brad Linder — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:20:03 +0000

Qualcomm may be known first and foremost for making the processors that power millions of phones and tablets. But the company also has a display division... and it's about to get a little bigger. EE Times reports Qualcomm has acquired display company Pixtronix for about $175 million. Pixtronix is a startup working on MEMS display technology which can offer high...

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Pixel Qi sunlight readable displays at CES 2012

Brad Linder — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:00:16 +0000

Pixel Qi makes LCD displays that can be viewed outdoors in direct sunlight using nothing but ambient light. In full color LCD mode they still look better outdoors than a typical screen, but you can also cut the backlight entirely and use the screens in a high-contrast, nearly black and white mode that uses as much as 80 percent less...

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Hands-on with the Kyobo Mirasol eReader

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:00:35 +0000

Korean eBook company Kyobo is now selling the first consumer device with a Qualcomm Mirasol display (although a Chinese company just announced that it's ready to follow suit). The Kyobo eReader runs a modified version of Google Android 2.3 with an emphasis on eBooks, but it can also play videos, view photos, or perform other activities. That's important, because unlike...

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LightPad projector turns your phone into a laptop, home theater

Brad Linder — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:50:18 +0000

Modern smartphones have crazy fast processors, high resolution displays, and enough features to make a 10-year-old laptop weep with shame. But they're limited by their size. It's hard to watch a movie with friends on a 4 inch display, and it's hard to type your doctoral dissertation using an on-screen keyboar. QP Optoelectronics plans to show off a new device...

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Closer look at the Kyobo eReader with Mirasol color display

Brad Linder — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:50:17 +0000

Korean company Kyobo introduced the first eBook reader with a Qualcomm Mirasol display recently. The device has a 5.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel low power color screen that can handle books or magazines as well as full-motion video content. Nicole from Netbook News got some hands-on time with the device recently, and they've confirmed that while the Kyobo eReader...

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Ever wonder what you’d actually use a transparent, flexible display for? (Video)

Brad Linder — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:12:47 +0000

Samsung has been showing off concepts for futuristic displays for the past few years. Some of the company's designs include flexible displays that you could roll up and put in a pocket or slap around your wrist and wear as a watch. Others involve semi-transparent displays, allowing you to look right through the screen at times, while viewing text and...

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Samsung shows off a 10 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display

Brad Linder — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:13:48 +0000

Last week Toshiba introduced a 6 inch display with a ridiculously sharp screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. Today Samsung introduced something slightly more likely to make it to market in the not-too-distant future: a 10.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel screen. The screen is an IGZO TFT LCD display which has the same physical dimensions as the screens found in many netbooks...

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Toshiba introduces 6 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display

Brad Linder — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:44:53 +0000

If you thought the iPhone's 3.5 inch, 960 x 640 pixel display was sharp you ain't seen nothing yet. Toshiba has just introduced a new 6.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display. The screen has a pixel density of 498 pixels per inch. Apple calls its 326 ppi display a "retina display" because at that density the human eye...

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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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Motorola’s next tablet could have higher-res display

Brad Linder — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:04:28 +0000

The latest Android tablets from Motorola, Samsung, Asus, and others are already setting a high bar for high-resolution displays. Most tablets designed to run Google Android 3.x Honeycomb feature 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel screens. But now it looks like the company may be working on a next generation tablet with an even higher resolution display. The new device...

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Asus netbooks to drop glossy displays for matte screens

Brad Linder — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:51:32 +0000

There's a small but vocal subset of laptop users who can't stand glossy displays. While they look bright and vibrant on a store shelf, these screens tend to reflect glare and turn into mirrors when you try to use them outdoors or even in an office or coffee shop too close to a window. But over the past few years...

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Pixel Qi suggests low power tablets could be powered by 1W solar panels

Brad Linder — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:00:11 +0000

Pixel Qi's display technology allows you to seriously reduce power consumption when you cut off the backlight and use a tablet or notebook in high contrast, black and white mode. So while a 10 inch Pixel Qi screen uses around 2.5W of power in full color mode, it uses closer to 0.5W in black and white mode. ARMDevices spoke with...

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Qualcomm Mirasol displays could compete with OLED screens in the tablet space

Brad Linder — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:00:13 +0000

Qualcomm has been showing off its Mirasol display technology for the last few years. The low power screens don't require a backlight, instead relying on ambient lighting like an E Ink screen. That reduces power consumption and makes it possible to view the screens in direct sunlight. But unlike most E Ink displays, Mirasol screens can handle color and full...

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Microsoft outlines hardware requirements for Windows 8 features

Brad Linder — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:00:26 +0000

Microsoft unveiled a shiny new user interface for Windows 8 last night which should make the upcoming operating system at least as easy to use on tablets and other touchscreen devices as it is on laptop and desktop computers. But you'll need the right hardware for the job, and Microsoft is starting to let us know exactly what that means....

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Pixel Qi introduces 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel sunlight viewable displays

Brad Linder — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:50:45 +0000

Pixel Qi's display technology combines some of the best features of an LCD screen with those of an E Ink display. With the backlight on a Pixel Qi display can handle a full range of colors and full motion video. Cut off the backlight and you get a high contrast display that's almost black and white and which you can...

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