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Originally Posted by Dylrob
Well they are a non-profit group. Funding is always an issue.
The point was that this technology has seen mass production and release. It's not just vaporware.
Being able to use an ordinary netbook in daylight should itself be a huge step forward. I don't see much wrong with the conventional clamshell design to be honest. Making it a convertible tablet PC might be nice, but then again it adds the demand for a touch screen. And most manufacturers would resort to a crappy brightness eating resistive screen since they're cheap.
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I live somewhat close to their Taipei office...I should go harass them sometime.
I'm also hoping for interesting things involving PixelQi, but I'm a little skeptical about what early implementations will be like. I guess that depends on who their first big customers are. As a concept, I think it'd be wicked to see a netbook with not only a pixelqi screen for general consumption of reading content, but also an independent controller/OS for ultra-low power ebook reading.
I am quite curious about the appearance of text in the reflective mode. I'm not too hopeful, since it doesn't appear to exceed ebook reader electrophoretics. However, it would interest me significantly to see how it fares next to an M218a or Jetbook, and whether OS-adjustable text AA can make delicate serif typefaces usable.
In any event, I don't think they're really aspiring to one-up electrophoretics in monochrome display quality, but rather in all-around versatility (too bad though, still hoping for a silver bullet [not to be confused with a gray one]).