Pixel Qi readies battery-saving laptop screens

20.02.2009

A variant of Pixel Qi's low-power screen technology was first implemented in OLPC's XO laptops. That effort was led by Jepsen, who formerly was OLPC's chief technology officer and contributed to a in low-power screen design.

She stirred up a controversy when she left nonprofit OLPC in 2007 to start the for-profit Pixel Qi, with the goal to create a US$75 laptop using technologies she invented at OLPC. The company is now focusing on development of low-power screens.