A few days ago Pixel Qi started shipping DIY kits allowing netbook users to add a 10.1 inch Pixel Qi 3Qi display to their mini-laptops. While the $275 price tag may seem a bit high, what you get for your money is a dual mode display that you can use outdoors just as easily as […]
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7th Century introduces a 10.1 inch, USB powered LCD display… in Japan
Want a high definition display for your netbook, but don’t feel like removing the 1024 x 600 pixel display that shipped with your computer to install one? No problem. 7th Century is selling a USB powered 1366 x 768 pixel 10.1 inch screen. Just plug it into your netbook, notebook, or desktop to add a […]
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Pixel Qi display looks better outdoors than the original XO Laptop screen
Before starting Pixel Qi, Mary Lou Jepsen worked on the OLPC XO Laptop and helped design the cheap mini-laptop’s outdoor readable display. But that was a few years ago. Flash forward to 2010 and Pixel Qi has finally started producing and selling its new 3qi display which functions both as a full color screen indoors, […]
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Pixel Qi display kit in the wild – Video
A few days after the Maker Shed started selling DIY Pixel Qi display kits, we have one of the first reports from a computer user that actually purchased one. Apparently, installation was pretty simple (if you don’t mind removing some screws in your computer, and the end result is a netbook display that’s perfectly usable […]
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Initial crop of Pixel Qi DIY display kits are sold out
So a funny thing happens when you launch a product that’s generated a lot of buzz among a small group of geeky tech enthusiasts… turns out they’re actually willing to spend money to buy that product. Yesterday Pixel Qi announced that the first DIY touchscreen kits with the company’s low power, outdoor readable displays were […]
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Pixel Qi display DIY upgrade kit now available
Good news everyone! Pixel Qi’s 10.1 inch, outdoor readable display is officially not vaporware. You can buy a DIY kit today that will let you swap out your netbook’s current screen with a Pixel Qi display and the whole process is supposed to take just 5 to 10 minutes. Now for the bad news… the […]
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Flexible E Ink display inches closer to indestructability
I’ve learned never to believe anyone who claims to have an indestructible tech product. It’s just a recipe for having someone buy a brand new item and drop it on concrete to prove that you can break it if you really want to. But the folks at E Ink are working on a new display technology that […]
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Liquavista’s low-power displays look good — even in direct sun
Liquavista’s color and monochrome screens have looked impressive in demos we’ve seen to date — but their performance in direct sunlight was still an unknown. That’s all changed now, as the folks at ARMDevices managed to secure a little outdoor time with the displays on a bright, sunshiney day. As you can see in the […]
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CPT transflective display could give Pixel Qi a run for its money
Pixel Qi has gotten a lot of attention lately for its display which combines some of the best elements of a E Ink and full color displays. Indoors, you can use the screen in full color mode and you’d have a hard time telling it apart from any other display. Outdoors, you can shut off […]
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Samsung shows off 18.5 inch USB-powered display
Samsung has developed an 18.5 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display that can run on just 6.3W of power — which it can draw from two normal USB ports. That means you could plug the display into a desktop PC without bothering to run yet another cable to your wall jack or power strip, which […]