Liquavista displays go out in the sun, look better than all right (video)

We’ve seen Liquavista displays plenty of times at various trade shows, but so far they’ve always been locked up indoors. Now they’ve gone outside to enjoy the weather, and ARMdevices.net was there to capture the results. The low-power color and monochrome screens are shown looking at least as good in the wild as they do in captivity, and when placed next to a traditional LCD (in the laptop on the right) the difference is clear. Granted, the colors are a bit washed out, but the refresh rate is certainly far higher than anything we’ve seen from E Ink. While there’s still no firm word on how much this technology will cost manufacturers, converting from standard LCD production to Liquavista production is said to be relatively painless. How painless? We’ll rather disappointingly have to wait for at least another year before we find out, as these aren’t slated to go into production until the second half of 2011.

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