__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:49 \__
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1887805.lTtyszXDHV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Knocking Down the Barriers to the $100 Laptop
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The biggest technology roadblock to building the $100 laptop championed
>> | by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of the One Laptop per
>> | Child organization, is close to resolution.
>> |
>> | That roadblock has been developing a display that is rugged, inexpensive
>> | and readable in a wide variety of conditions from low light to bright
>> | sunlight.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2006350,00.asp
>
> <quote>
> Now, the chief technology officer of the One Laptop Per Child program
> claims to have come up with a display that can be readily mass-produced in
> standard LCD factories, has a higher resolution than 95 percent of the
> laptop displays on the market today, runs with about one-seventh of
> traditional power consumption, costs one-third of the price and can be read
> in sunlight or room light without backlighting.
> </quote>
>
> It had not occured to me that in the process of developing the OLPC
> project, we'd end up with new technology that may eventually find its way
> into the computers of "first-world countries". It's like a nice karmic
> bonus.
There has been a lot of this in NASA. Things like Teflon, to name just one
example.
Best wishes,
Roy
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