After spinning off from the OLPC project last year with that fancy dual-mode display technology in its pocket,
Pixel Qi has been pretty much talk. Now there's more talk, but at least it comes with a timeline: next month. That's when Pixel Qi founder Mary Lou Jepsen believes the much-anticipated 10-inch 3Qi display should hit the scene, combining a low-power black and white mode, e-paper mode and high-resolution color LCD mode into one glorious, sunlight-readable (and hopefully
outlandishly cheap) screen. They'll just be shipping samples initially, but should have the screen producing in volume sometime this summer. Mary Lou also has some big words on the future of displays, claiming that they're working on screens that act like a chip on the motherboard, saving power and improving visuals -- we're not sure what that entails, but it sounds pretty neat. She also says that "screens shouldn't be TVs," and that touch and multitouch are key. It doesn't sound like any of that is in the 3Qi, but hopefully it's all going to be ready to go for the Nick Neg crew by the time
OLPC XO-2 (pictured) rolls around.
posted Apr 23rd 2009 10:50AM
But...but...that's MY idea :'O
how can it be both lcd and eink. i dont see how that would work. two different techs.
@ D That's why you're posting on blog comment threads and professionals are taking care of making this new product. PWNED.
oh no he didn't!
(pronounced dih-ent)
@sully LOL!!!! right on
@sully810
Or it's just marketing nonsense.
OLPC was a shit project that never met its own hype, and its spinoffs are going to be the exact same way. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
No, It was my idea...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/04/albatron-demos-22-inch-multi-touch-screen-for-windows-7/2#c12494199
LOL
It's a scanner AND a printer?!? Madness I say.
i'd buy it
ya but you're not a child (or are you)
So wait then, the plan is that every child is going to get a full-colour e-ink dual-display netbook computer...sweeet. For the low price of what now?
What in the world is the person in that picture trying to type?
Umm the search bar in the top right of the webpage he's viewing?
I believe she's practicing for her piano lesson while watching bambi. What a smart kid
It looks like they are holding some kind of control button and typing " d v " and " ,' " while holding the shift key, all at the same time. That's some crazy command.
It's a shooter and he is aiming for the llama.
Vapor?
I think as much - Surely if these are going to be low cost PCs, they want to be pushing tried and tested comodisized tech, not bleeding edge?!
Considering we havent even seen $4000.00 dual screen laptops, I'm very skeptical. So the world's cheapest laptop designed for emerging, 3rd world markets, is going to have dual screens? Something smells wrong here. And what about the battery? This unit is WAY WAY WAAAYYY too thin to house the second screen, CPU, and the battery, which will have 1/2 hr of juice on a configuration like this.
Hmmm! 10". Cheap. Multi-touch. I wonder what could be launching in June?
Where does it say that this particular screen will be multitouch?
"touch and multitouch are key. It doesn't sound like any of that is in the 3Qi"
The children of the future will look with disdain on your crude mechanical input devices.
Then the children of the future are going to have shitty keyboards.
This will make a membrane keyboard from 1983 look like an IBM Model M.
Touch input sucks balls for typing anything longer than 140 characters
While the kids over here are using nasty Dell vostros etc, they're (supposedly) getting awesome looking multi touch dual screen efforts, with half decent battery life? Wha?
(not meant in a bigoted way at all)
If it's anything like the concept in the photo, I'm game.
I agree. Not only that, with e-ink, it would be kind of cool to read. You could flip it vertically and read it like a normal book (analogue book? :)
Wow, thats blatantly a iPhone rip off. I mean its smaller then a desktop and has a screen so must be
How can a netbook ripoff a cellphone?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? STOP READING BLOGS WAITING TO MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT THE iPHONE! GO STICK YOUR IPHONE UP YOUR STUPID FANBOY A$$. GOT AN APP FOR THAT?
Yes, there is an app for that, but it shows how to stick an iPhone up a PC fanboys anal orifice with various prodding instruments. It's called The PC Fanboi Happy Hour app. Oh, baby, just 500,000 more downloads to make a BILLION downloads. Are you listening PC Fanboy? There is an app to do practically every task in the universe and beyond. Get it at the Apple App Store.
Did your iphone tell you to write that?
Jesus, you couldnt see the sarcasm in that post -- really?
Thre unanswered questions:
1. What's the resolution of the "high res color mode"?
2. How fast is the video refresh?
3. What's the cost?
doesnt look very inexpensive
Yeah, but can it run crysis?
No.
now STOP POSTING THAT STUPID QUESTION
I thought of this just the other day..... Man I don't even go engadget that much. WTF... Anywayz... this is a brilliant idea...
I am reading this blog on one of those OLPC, in full sun. Yes, this computer is very slow but this is the only display that works outside.If someone could take that display and ad it to a real laptop, you would have a winner.
Can't wait to buy one~
I am always wondering when an ebook reader could be available with cheap price....
Hopefully i could buy one in my own country, although I am not a child =p
dear sir,
from where i can get this OLPC graduate Pixel Qi announces.
how much is it?