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You mean a Transflective LCD like the $100 OLPC XO laptop used? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by Sander_Marechal 3y ago
You mean a Transflective LCD like the $100 OLPC XO laptop used?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
- rbanffy 3y agoIs it one more case where a good technology was killed by incumbents fearing disruption? Their tech seemed solid and a good match for tablets such as the Kindle Fire family that tries to overlap tablets and e-readers.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThere was an article here about using boring technology and how you have a limited number of "innovation tokens" you can use before you get overwhelmed. The OLPC is a very clear example. The idea of a completely innovative product, with an innovative distribution, an innovative application, for an innovative education method brought way too many small failures. It's incredible that they even managed to put all of the technical innovations together at some point.
- rbanffy 3y agoThinking a bit more on this, the PixelQi display didn’t have a use case where it was clearly the best option. You could use it reflectively, but, then, it was grayscale only (because the colors come from the backlight) while, when used transmissively, the colors seemed washed out because the prisms didn’t separate RGB components completely enough, unlike the filters used in pure transmissive LCDs. A bummer, really. It was a nice technology. As was the XO, BTW. I have the feeling they should have started with rich countries. My daughter’s school is pushing for Windows laptops for students running mostly Office stuff and OneNote instead of paper notebooks.
- Sander_Marechal 3y agoI was a huge fan of the OLPC XO-1. Wonderfull tech that sadly didn't make a bigger splash.
- rbanffy 3y agoThat's one of the many sad instances of roads not taken in computing.