The Paperwhite display provides an unparalleled experience in the dark and in direct sunlight.
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The Paperwhite display provides an incredible experience in the dark and in direct sunlight.
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The Pebble team calls its watch's display an e-paper display, in order to highlight its readability in direct sunlight.
Perfect for mobile workers and global travelers, the Spark provides an hour of iPad video playback for every hour in direct sunlight.
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It is designed for any weather conditions, including bright direct sunlight.
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The display is also reasonably usable in direct sunlight.
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The TL350 is equipped with a three-inch AMOLED screen providing users with a higher contrast ratio, deeper blacks and more accurate, vivid colors, even when viewed from an angle or in direct sunlight.
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Wysips says its 0.5 millimeter-thick screen can be plugged directly to the phone's power inlet to provide an extra four minutes of battery life for every 10 minutes it is exposed to direct sunlight.
Compared to the traditional TFT-LCD found on most digital cameras, the TL500's AMOLED provides users with a higher contrast ratio, deeper blacks and more accurate, vivid colors, even when viewed from an angle or in direct sunlight.
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Panasonic's artificial photosysnthesis system has a simple structure with highly efficient CO2 conversion, which can utilize direct sunlight or focused light.
Virgil Zetterlind, cofounder of nautical-charts provider EarthNC, says iPads make smart replacements for traditional marine chart plotters because they are multipurpose, power efficient, simple to use, readable in direct sunlight and easily updatable.
But jagged edges are hard to spot, viewing angles are extraordinary and it shrugs off direct sunlight as a minor inconvenience.
Abengoa said the project will improve its current solar thermal technology, which uses mirrors to concentrate and direct the sunlight for producing steam.
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She says she has applied insulation film on her windows to block the direct sunlight from warming up the rooms.
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At first glance, there were definitely some things we liked about Samsung's 10.2 megapixel NV24HD: the UI's touch-sensitive buttons (as opposed to a crowded touchscreen), the 2.5-inch AMOLED display looks great (even in direct sunlight) and the camera shoots generous 720p, 30fps video.
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Now BrightSource (and others) use huge arrays of mirrors to direct sunlight to a single spot high on a tower.
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In his 15-story Menara Mesiniaga, east- and west-facing windows are recessed to reduce direct sunlight which would heat the building's interiors.
The display looks great both indoors and out, though we did notice some odd black spotting while viewing the panel in direct sunlight -- adjusting the angle eradicates the issue.
The second was vetoed by the director of photography because it got too much direct sunlight a no-no for movie cameras.
One is out of reach of the craft's heaters but direct sunlight could do the trick, said the project manager.
The company is doing amazing things in peer to peer gaming, content distribution, wireless charging for electric cars, cell phone remote controls, direct sunlight viewable screens, and extremely high speed wireless radios.
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It does however mean it should be perfectly viewable in direct sunlight -- a major concern for devices such as this.
His team found support for this theory in work showing that autumnal anthocyanins were most abundant in leaves exposed to direct sunlight, and least so in those shaded by the canopy.
They used their knowledge of the astrological movement of the sun through the seasons to align their pueblos on south facing cliffs to receive direct heating sunlight in winter, yet be shaded in the summer.
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The most compelling remains Pixel Qi -- a hybrid LCD technology that can be switched from a standard, full-color LCD backlit mode to a Kindle-like monochromatic reflective mode viewable in direct sunlight (while consuming 80% less power than standard LCDs).
We're happy to report that it's easy to read in direct sunlight and isn't too distracting -- ditto the instrument panel.
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Tech founders have lots of advice for those of us just starting out, but the operating assumption is clearly WORKAHOLISM, as in, handcuff yourself to your laptop, partake strictly of ramen and shun direct sunlight and the company of people who are not likewise handcuffed to laptops.
It looks brilliant in direct sunlight and reads like an e-paper display, but refreshes much faster.
You'll have to bump brightness up to max to make out the screen's contents when in direct sunlight, but even then it's advisable to seek shade for full clarity.
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