Quacking with love for dual modes
With the brevity of an engineer, Bert Freudenberg introduces us to Squeak working on the new dual-mode display today. His assessment?
"Squeak looks surprisingly well on the display prototype, and also etoys are reasonably fast."Now that is a mighty understatement for the first sighting of the dual-mode display prototype, what One Laptop Per Child claims has:
"higher resolution than 95% of the laptop displays on the market today; approximately 1/7th the power consumption; 1/3rd the price; sunlight readability; and room-light readability with the backlight off"Looking at Ian Piumarta pictures of the display I can't tell who is happier, the engineers using the steel-encased display or the cute little duck watching the car go around on the screen that is apparently refreshing at 22.2 frames per second.
Recent Comments
Yay for Squeak! Squeak is a bit of software that really makes sense for the OLPC... Let's hope we see some more come of it!
I don't get it. Is the duck a Squeak masscot or just a fun toy? I didn't think ducks went "squeak".
The screen is cool. I like how its in that metal case with the motherboard. Now if they can put it in the green plastic one...
Rubber ducks go squeak....