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$299 kit lets you add a Pixel Qi display to a BeagleBoard, PandaBoard

Brad Linder — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:58 +0000

Tin Can Tools has released a new kit that lets you add a Pixel Qi sunlight readable display to a BeagleBoard or PandaBoard system. Both are tiny computer systems aimed at hobbyists interested in building anything from digital signage to robots with the palm-sized computer as the brains. The Tin Can Tools kit includes a Pixel Qi display and all...

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Sol Computer unveils ruggedized, pricey netbook with Pixel Qi screen

Brad Linder — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:30:21 +0000

Sol Computer is a small California-based company that offers computers with Pixel Qi sunlight readable displays. The company's notebooks and tablets are aimed at customers willing to pay a premium price for a screen that's visible outdoors, including pilots and other professionals that work outdoors. This week Sol Computer started showing off its latest product -- a netbook with a semi-rugged...

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Pixel Qi promises retina-quality low power displays

Brad Linder — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:51:12 +0000

Pixel Qi's low power displays are based on standard LCD display technology -- but the company's screens support a high contrast mode that allows you to turn off the backlight and use the screens in direct sunlight -- or in any room where you just want to save power. There are about a dozen devices available with Pixel Qi displays...

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A dozen products with Pixel Qi sunlight viewable displays now avaialble

Brad Linder — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:52:11 +0000

For the past few years Pixel Qi has been showing off its unique display solution at trade shows. And for the past few years folks interested in a display that looks like a normal color LCD indoors and like a high contrast E Ink display outdoors have been wondering where they could buy one. While there are no big-name tablets...

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Joyplus M10PQ tablet features a Pixel Qi sunlight readable display

Brad Linder — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:45:27 +0000

At first glance the Joyplus M10PQ looks a lot like other cheap Chinese tablets. It has a 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor. But then you dim the backlight and the Joyplus M10Q's one special feature stands out. The tablet has a Pixel Qi...

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French EviGroup PadPro available with Pixel Qi sunlight readable screen

Brad Linder — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

French tablet maker EviGroup has a habit of making tablets with unusual features. For instance, last year the company demonstrated a tablet with head-tracking capabilities. Now EviGroup is offering a tablet with an optional Pixel Qi sunlight viewable disable. The EviGroup PadPro is a tablet with a 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor,...

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Orchard introduces Toughlet rugged tablet with sunlight viewable display

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:18 +0000

Orchard has introduced a new rugged tablet designed for outdoor use. It has a 7 inch Pixel Qi display which can function as a full color LCD display or a high contrast (nearly black and white) sunlight viewable display when the backlight is turned off. The current model has a 1.2 GHz Freescale iMX5 ARM Cortex-A8 dual core processor and...

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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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7 inch Android, Windows tablets with Pixel Qi sunlight viewable displays from Sol Computer

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:45:26 +0000

Sol Computer introduced a 10 inch Windows netbook and 10 inch Windows tablet with Pixel Qi sunlight viewable displays last year. Now the company is adding two new 7 inch models to its lineup, one with Google Android, and another with Windows. Pixel Qi screens are dual-mode LCD displays which work as full-color screens when the backlight is on, or...

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Pixel Qi, Shizhu Technology to produce tablets together

Brad Linder — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:38:19 +0000

A new family of Chinese tablets with displays that are viewable both indoors and outdoors in direct sunlight could be on the way. Chinese device maker Shizhu Technology is partnering with Pixel Qi to develop "a family of tablets." Pixel Qi's displays are LCD screens that combine some of the best features of an LCD with some of the benefits of E...

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Pixel Qi: Over 3 million screens in the wild

Brad Linder — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:58:37 +0000

Pixel Qi makes transflective displays that look like full-color LCDs when used with a backlight, but look more like a low power, outdoor readable E Ink when you turn off the backlight on a computer, eReader, or other device. The company has been showing off its technology for a few years, but so far very few consumer devices have actually...

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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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Sol Computer launches sunlight readable netbook, tablet with Pixel Qi screen

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:00:17 +0000

There's good news and bad news for anyone that's been waiting to get their hands on a mobile device with a Pixel Qi display. The good news is that there's another company offering mobile devices with Pixel Qi screens. The bad news is that they're really quite expensive. Pixel Qi is a company that makes dual-mode LCD displays. When used...

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Notion Ink Adam 2 on track for a December launch

Brad Linder — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:49:47 +0000

The Notion Ink Adam tablet was one of the first 10 inch Android tablets to ship with a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and to this day it's still one of the only tablets on the market featuring a 10 inch Pixel Qi sunlight readable display. Now the company is getting ready to launch a second-generation tablet,...

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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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