3 ms·
What about transreflective displays? Annoyingly I've still not seen one IRL. They go black and white, apparently, but are still 100% legible.
by exikyut 7y ago
What about transreflective displays?
Annoyingly I've still not seen one IRL. They go black and white, apparently, but are still 100% legible.
- kragen 7y agoI've been positively impressed with the readability of OLPC XOs in sunlight, which I think are what you're talking about. It's too bad they weren't willing to consider a capitalist rather than communist model for making them available; I think they would have been popular. I think there are also color transflective displays but I've only seen them in photos. E-ink displays are even better than the XO, and machines with them are much more easily available, but most of them only come in the surveillance-capitalist hood-welded-shut model. They use orders of magnitude less energy than transflective LCDs for some usage patterns, but refresh slowly.
- jasonmp85 7y agoOh my god this is the most insane description of OLPC I’ve ever seen. Not “neoliberal private-public partnership bull crap” but somehow “communist”? Lololol.
- kragen 7y agoThe only way they would sell you an XO was if you were going to give one to every kid in the country as part of a centrally planned education policy. While this could have been very effective, there's no denying that it's structurally much more Lenin or Castro than Pinochet, Eisenhower, or even Yew. If that's not obvious to you, it says more about your knowledge of political ideas than about my mental health; perhaps you only know “communist” as a pejorative due to US jingoism? A capitalist approach to the problem would have stopped them from failing as completely as they did but also would have eliminated the possibility of the far-reaching transformation of education they were seeking to impose.