
Up Close and Personal With the Pixel Qi Display
January 11th, 2010 admin
Topics: ces 2010, display, displays, gadget lab podcasts, mary lou jepsen, netbooks, pixel qi, Wired

Pixel Qi’s low power displays that can switch between color LCD screens and e-reader like black-and-white displays was labeled vaporware in 2009 . But the company silenced its critics by offering some hands-on time at the Consumer Electronics Show with the screens that are already in production. “We are going mainstream in 2010 in million of units and we are leading with netbooks,” says…
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