Pixel Qi's latest display is not touchscreen

Last year, Pixel Qi appeared at Computex to present its lofty goals of creating a dual-touchscreen notebook for the One Laptop Per Child project that cost as little as $75, including scintillating mockups of its ultimate goal.

One year later, the group has made distinct progress toward...something. At Computex in Taipei this week, Pixel Qi will be showing off its 3Qi display, which is an improvement on the OLPC XO's current screen. They have created a higher efficiency "transflective" screen. This type of screen has a sunlight-readable black and white (reflective) mode that offers an equally high-quality full-color (transmissive) mode.

John Ryan, Pixel Qi's Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, gave a quick demo of Pixel Qi's 3Qi display. Ryan addresses the problem of endowing these screens with a touch interface. He says, "Putting touch on top of reflective is interesting, because you fight so hard to make the reflective properties good, and a lot of the touch surfaces really destroy the optical properties."