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Wanted: a 100 micron pixel

From: Vaughan Pratt <>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:11:30 -0700

We're looking for a few good accessories for the Matchbox PC including
small displays, both b/w and color.

Here are some pixel sizes of some displays we've considered, in decreasing
order of size.

	Rex display	330  u   (77 dpi)
	PC110 display	150  u  (170 dpi)  (a Citizen L6481L-FF)
	What we want	100  u  (250 dpi)
	Microdisplay	15.7 u (1600 dpi)

Any good candidates out there for the hundred-micron ballpark that we're
looking for?

One possibility is to project the Microdisplay onto a small screen,
magnifying it 7x, or more if you want a larger image.  The bulk of such
a projector could be reduced by organizing its optics so that it could
fold up to fit in a pocket.

If the optics were kept separate from the display itself one could have
multiple optical systems, one for viewing the screen through an eyepiece
as a virtual image, HMD/faxview style, another for projecting a real
image onto any handy surface such as a sheet of paper, and so on.

The display itself could be incorporated into the Matchbox PC, so that
even without any optics one could still have a readable 10 character x
5 line display for emergency use.

Vaughan

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