Revolutionary electronic paper display for notebooks out this year

Company Pixel Qi founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, shall present a prototype of a new type of display for small laptop computers in May or early June.
Mary Lou Jepsen is the creator of this revolutionary display and a so-called “100-dollar laptop Olpc XO”.

Jepsen announced that on Thursday at the Interactive Displays conference, together with a few basic parameters. She informs about them in her blog. http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/04/23/samples-due-soon/

Display referred to as 3Qi will have the diagonal measurement of 10.1 "and according to Jepsen’s information it will be probably based on similar principles as Olpc XO laptop screen, which supports the monochrome mode without backlight; functioning well even in direct sunlight and the color scheme with active backlight. 3Qi is similar to electronic paper with high resolution and contrast. But it will support a high refresh frequency for fast scrolling, or playing video and color mode.

At the end of last year Jepsen informed that the display developed by the company should have very low consumption and enable manufacturing of laptops with endurance of 20 to 40 hours, and its production should begin in the fall.

Paris Hilton vs Paris France

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The piece is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” and displays an average result in real-time.

What’s in the box? Looking to the future?

Quoting Crunchgear, “This impressive short film borrows shamelessly from the kind of science-gone-wrong ideas and limited frame of reference that has found such popularity these days. It borrows not only the ideas, but also the music and sound effects — it’s clear this is not a final product, but rather a sort of demo reel for one guy’s special effects and editing prowess. Perhaps a final project for a student filmmaker?”

New type of capacitor, which can transfer 1 kg of mass into up to 1 MW of energy

Gary Rubloff from the University of Maryland, together with colleagues from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, presented a prototype of a new type of capacitor, which can transfer 1 kg of mass into up to 1 MW of energy. This capacitor can store energy with such density as supercapacitor. At the same time, it can release it as quickly as electrostatic capacitor.

The success secret of this new technology is that it consists of 10 billion of miniature capacitors with a diameter of only 50 micrometers. Their electrodes are made in such manner, that each operates as a separate unit. Production of these small capacitors starts with creating a field of nano-pores evenly spaced on the surface of aluminum layer. Every pore is filled with a trio of concentric layers of material, functioning as a classical capacitor, composed of a conductor, isolator and conductor. The conductor wires are composed of titanium nitride; insulator is composed of aluminum oxide.

Further research even foresees a possibility to increase the density of stored energy. In addition to the hybrid battery-capacitor technology, intended for electric cars, new capacitor could be also used to power electronics such as mobile phones or laptops.