Turn Your Laptop into an E-Reader with Pixel Qi display

Reading e-books on regular laptops can put some strain on your eyes. That’s why devices such as Kindle are so much fun. They make it much easier to read for hours without tiring your eyes out. Besides, you can use your e-reader outdoors, under sun-light. That’s not something you can do on regular laptop LCD displays. Pixel Qi display is a fun display for laptops that offers the best of both worlds and allows you to read on your laptop no matter where you are (conserves energy too).

Pixel Qi display has two modes. In color mode, you get to use your laptop as you would any regular notebook. In e-reader mode, you consume less energy on your laptop and can use your device in a similar fashion to those E-ink e-readers:

This one-of-a-kind, plug-and-play 10.1-inch display offers two modes–an easy-to-read, real color, multi-media mode or a crisp, low power e-reader mode. The sunlight-ready, e-reader mode makes it easy to use outdoors.

These screens rival the best e-paper displays on the market today but in addition have video refresh and fully saturated color. The e-paper mode has 3 times the resolution of the fully saturated color mode allowing for a high resolution reading experience without sacrifice to super color fidelity for graphics.

This display is designed for 10 inch netbooks. We still don’t know whether it will be available for larger laptops. While it’s a bit pricey, it does add an interesting dimension to your mini laptop.

If you are still not sold on Kindle or nook, these types of screens give you another option (as long as you can get your hands on one).