| OLPC may have solved its display problem |
Aug. 21, 2006
 The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project reportedly is close to solving one of its top challenges. Mary Lou Jepsen, OLPC's founding CTO, says that the "biggest technology roadblock" to building the $100 laptop -- a rugged, low-power, inexpensive, and readable display -- is nearly solved, eWEEK reports.
Jepsen claims to have come up with a new type of LCD that can be readily mass-produced in standard LCD factories, runs on about one-seventh the power of a traditional display, and costs about one-third as much as the traditional screen, according to the eWEEK interview.
"It's a rethinking of it [the LCD]," Jepsen tells columnist Eric Lundquist. "What I have done is re-examined the LCD for our laptop."
The entire eWEEK interview with Jepsen is available here.
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