one laptop on the streets of new york
by Christopher Blizzard
A terrible picture taken in front of that building they always blow up in movies. Mary Lou and Robert look at the test unit.
Last month we took one of the test display units down to the design firm we’ve been working with. They wanted to see how colors looked on the display and what the greyscale mode looks like.
Eben and Lisa talk about colors on the display.
The test units are housed in stainless steel units along with one of the motherboards and a huge-ass daughter FPGA card that houses the display controller. We have a battery attached to the box to be able to take it outside and see what it looks like.
Another really bad picture of the display in black and white mode in direct sunlight.
This doesn’t do it justice, of course. Text on the display in greyscale looks just stunning. At 200dpi, nearly twice what you get on normal displays, fonts are very crisp.
The Flatiron building, FWIW.
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Last seen by Christopher Blizzard at 23rd and Broadway, in the shadow of the Flatiron Building its test box hardened stainless steel shell glistened in the s…
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