<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 June 2016 at 00:35, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Dave Crossland <</span><a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">> wrote:</span><br></div><div><div><div class="h5">
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi<div><br></div><div>Today I had to go to a shopping mall in Denver, Colorado, and I noticed that every item in the store had a little LCD screen attached; very low res, but surely very cheap to have 1,000s of them in every store. <br><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2016-05-30_lcd1.jpg" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2016-05-30_lcd1.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2016-05-30_lcd2.jpg" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2016-05-30_lcd2.jpg</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>I wonder how cheap screens can be these days :) <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">[Off topic]</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Are these screens LCD? I was reading in the hackernews thread relating the a colour e-ink display recently that there are lots of e-ink screens that are built for this market. I can't find the link unfortunately.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I would be very interested if they are. Front-lit LCDs are amazing, and I believe that the XO is one of the only devices to have one. Is that true?</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div><br class="">(replying on list with permission)</div><div><br></div><div>They seemed like regular LCD rather than eink to me, but if I stop by there again I'll check them out :)</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting, I wasn't aware of color eink screens being developed yet. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm also not aware of any other laptop with a dual eink/regular screen. </div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class="">On 2 June 2016 at 06:30, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Stores use those little screens to constantly manipulate and change prices. They make more $ while we pay more. I'm sure they pay for themselves very quickly.</div><div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>hahaha yes, probably :) </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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