It looks brilliant in direct sunlight and reads like an e-paper display, but refreshes much faster.
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.
Parked in direct sunlight, the poorly ventilated bubble-top Peel Trident could probably cook a chicken in about an hour.
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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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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.
She says she has applied insulation film on her windows to block the direct sunlight from warming up the rooms.
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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.
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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It does however mean it should be perfectly viewable in direct sunlight -- a major concern for devices such as this.
In his 15-story Menara Mesiniaga, east- and west-facing windows are recessed to reduce direct sunlight which would heat the building's interiors.
But jagged edges are hard to spot, viewing angles are extraordinary and it shrugs off direct sunlight as a minor inconvenience.
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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Qualcomm says the setup enables bright colors in direct sunlight, weeks-long battery life and an image refresh rate fast enough to support video.
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It's easy to read, even in direct sunlight -- just don't expect to be able to display your favorite animated GIFs of grumpy cat, okay?
Also, while silicon solar cells do not need direct sunlight to work, they will collect a lot less energy indoors or on a cloudy day.
It is designed for any weather conditions, including bright direct sunlight.
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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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To help cut down on glare and enhance viewing outdoors and in direct sunlight, Samsung has also designed the TL34HD's VGA LCD screen with a drastically improved anti-reflection coating.
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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.
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.
The display is also reasonably usable in direct sunlight.
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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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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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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.
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.
Cybook Opus can be read in all conditions: indoors or in direct sunlight - unlike multimedia pads which, like backlit Swiss army knives, can't stand the light of day and last for hours rather than weeks...
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