Pixel Qi screen demo Live from Taipei

[MrsNeemis]

keep it up,you gonna be big, subbed!!!

[LadyGoDivaStar]

Subscribed!Im really looking forward to your upcoming videos!

[ChickenPludder]

and another advantage. because theres no light flickering, you can film the monitor without getting a horrible picture

[bethoughless]

when there gonna be a larger screen? like 14 inches?

[bethoughless]

when it is in reading mode, is it e ink? or just something dat appears to be e ink?

[nadieselgirl]

Please make this in a desktop version! I miss being able to code on grey scale displays. It is a lot easier on my eyes and this solves the glare / brightly lit area issue. Great product!

[mmortal03]

For those who are curious, you can go to 10:45 to see what full motion video looks like in the transflective mode. It's not color, but you can still see what's going on. What would be great is if they do develop this kind of technology to be able to watch video in color. Then we'll be able to, say, watch Netflix films off of a 4g netbook in sunlight!

[QueenOfUnimatrixZero]

I am looking for a mobile device only for typing text outdoors. Normal notebook displays aren´t really useful for that under sunlight conditions. Not to mention glare displays! The e-ink technology would help and build in a normal notebook with win xp or 7 would give normal access to open office, word etc.

The technology may be less useful for videos or gaming but a perfect tool for writers. Come on with this one soon please!

[graceoverall]

GO GO GO Mary Lou Jepsen!! I can't WAIT to get one of your screens in my 17" HD multimedia lappy :)

When I first read about these screens in my Popular Science mag, I was really impressed.

[ujalogicalone]

I am writing this comment outdoors on a Dell E6400 and I can't see a goddamn thing on the screen. Why is it taking so long for manufacturers to get this technology to market.

[dinnerandashow]

Arm and Intel both are terrible in terms of computation per watt compared to whats is out there but is politically band.

[facciolite]

People, imagine the iPad with this screen. Really?! This is what we are waiting for. Interactive paper. How beautiful would a matte iPad with this screen look? Back to the basic reading experience that doesn't hurt your brain and your eyes.

[frankp4]

sunlight ? what sunlight ? you kept the camera low on purpose

[pieprzycZielonych]

I have pre-glare screen in my laptop - one of the last available for request and it works the same way as this new Pixel Qi; so what's the difference between old no glare screen technology and this?

[sabaths1fan]

so it just gets rid of glare?

[Aerohix]

Is the viewing angle good?

[ecsyntric]

The COO is extremely eloquent

[ecsyntric]

I like that Charbax is as excited and I would be while scoping these new display technologies

[vidvivek2009]

Hello can anybody say what is the price for this screen? i am interested for my netbook!

[Bashir38]

This is cool technology.

[mikeannike]

I have a couple thoughts on this.

1) Someone should make a netbook with a pixel qi screen and a snapdragon processor (at leats 1.5 GHz)

2) How can i get a pixel qi screen on my netbook along with a backlight toggle switch?

[omgLordLituslol]

a convertible laptop/tablet with this display would certainly pique my curiosity... if it was a light power-efficient machine you could pop in an SSD and have amazing battery life for a laptop, and decent e-reader style device (not just for ebooks, but for browsing as well due to the refresh rate)

the touchscreen limitations make sense, and really you could just have a trackpad beside the screen... for most uses a trackpad is superior to a touchscreen anyway, due to the easier access

[dranwang]

e-book priority is highly overrated at this point in time with all that hype. I suppose this tech has drawback e.g. for gaming & watching movies maybe?

Smartphones, tablets, and business lightweight laptops will benefit most from this tech, but I don't know about PC and heavy duty laptops (Although, the growth of tablets itself is - and has always been - driven by geek factor). Why own more than 1 mobile device (and smart phone)? Unless it's cheapo and it has a really good sync feature.

[Charbax]

@dranwang C: 1 13.3" Pixel Qi Laptop and 1 4.8" Pixel Qi Android Tablet and then obviously a 42" 1080p HDTV the office monitor and 1080p Projector for the living room.

[Charbax]

@Charbax 10.1" Pixel Qi Laptop that also turns into a tablet could be good enough for the Laptop part. Of course the Laptop needs to be ARM Powered and weigh less than 800gr and run 50-200 hours on a small battery. Both the 10.1" Chrome/Android Laptop and 4.8" Android Tablet and should cost less than $200 unlocked.

[spyinthesky]

Looks like one of my Fathers holiday movies.

[richcoolerearth]

Incredible

[theamazingkazoo]

looks alright. The zooming in and out all the time made me sick thou.

[fantamize]

I have been waiting for something like this for a while. Now I can have a laptop/ebook reader. Like the OLPC.

[ooooneeee]

i love it and sooo look forward to it :)

[lamtsite]

It can't be LIVE when its recorded.

And touchscreens suck.

[Krauser1226]

yeah, that's why the iPhone sold like crap...

please.....

[BCEMCOCATb]

Awesome! Looks like some kind of 'garage innovation', in the finest sense of course (=

[geodylabs]

Less talking and more showing the screen in action would have been better.

[trusthaha]

It can't be a touchscreen :(

However, I will get mine one when it is available on the market : )

[3yE]

AFAIK touchscreen is pretty much a separate part from a display, which is placed in front of the display. Capacitative sensor of high sensitivity can even be placed behind a display if the shielding is removed and placed behind the sensor.

So unless i'm totally overlooking something, i don't see why a particular display technology wouldn't work either with or without a touchscreen.

[3yE]

Oh yes, i was overlooking something. A good anti-glare/anti-reflective coating usually reacts to finger/palmprints or any liquid residue in a very nasty manner. That's why "touchscreen surfaces don't usually have those kind of optical properties we are trying to reach"

[mysteryMachinePL]

I have color screen like this in my Blackberry 7290 ^^ its very old but with upgraded battery works more than 14 days without recharge.

I really want laptop with this type of screen

[junkyardwillie]

I want one yesterday!!

[beatsiz]

Amazing technology right here!

Heard about it years ago, seeing it now, using it... dammit that far away? lol

[eFloodwater]

I must contradict a display like this is not only good for mobile use. Everyone who is working for hours in front of a screen and staring on it, first of all text workers of all kinds, will love a screen like this.

Looking directly into a source of bright light from a short distance is not good for ones eyes.

A screen like this connected to, say, a Mac Mini would be a writer's dream. And energy use wouldn't be an issue with a desktop screen too.

Make this the display of the (near) future!

[mgsmgsmgsmgs]

what do you need macmini for? give me just some simple pc with ubuntu and this screen and i'm perfectly happy :)

[magnatree]

Can't wait until Apple buys this :)

[maxheadroom1987]

Wow!! That is amazing! Thankyou for sharing a great video of this exciting tech, many Engadget readers have seen this and are very excited by it!

[Charbax]

You can jump to the part filmed outdoors at 6:06

[kentpaul65102]

@Charbax Impressive! I think some video editing would help a lot

[worldwideracing]

thanks! it's an amazing tech for laptops.

[Charbax]

I've got really slow upload connections in Taipei (I thought they had fiber everywhere, but I only am getting 60kb/s upload speeds both at show floor press room and at hotel rooms), I am re-uploading the second part of the video to see if Youtube will process the HD version of it faster.

[Charbax]

Adding to this, Youtube was "under maintainance" most of the day

[Charbax]

The video quality of this video on Youtube should be in HD, HD version of the outdoors part will hopefully be processed within half an hour..

[Charbax]

OK it's now in HD, I guess the extra views queued it back up for priority processing on the Youtube HD quality encoding grid.