Got the netbook? Specifically, got the Samsung N130 or the Lenovo S10-2? Even more privately, do you use it in and outdoor, though find it tough to review in a sun? We have good news! The Maker Shed will sell you one of Pixel Qi’s dual-mode displays as the true swap-in for your existent LCD-panel.

The 10.1-inch screen runs in a single of dual modes. When indoors, or examination video, you make use of the regular LCD display, which will look pretty much the same as a one you already have. When you’re in to mood for some reading, or you have been outward in splendid object, or you’re only running low upon battery energy, you can switch to a e-ink mode.

This disables a backlight and shows you hi-res, grayscale pixels, much similar to you’d see on a shade of a Amazon Kindle. Because it usually uses energy when updating a screen, it sips energy.

There is also the hybrid mode, that lets the object simulate off a back of the arrangement public as well as behind out by a color LCD. This both saves battery power as well as lets you view a normal tone display outdoor.

The row will price you $275, that puts it out of the “merely curious” joint but is still poor sufficient for people who do the lot of outside computing. The Maker Shed store page additionally says which the row will likely work in any netbook: a Lenovo as well as a Samsung have been just the only ones so far tested and on trial.

And according to the Pixel Qi blog, that initial described a plan to sell these panels alone from the company’s own notebooks, a swap-operation (swaperation?) is easy:

It’s usually somewhat more formidable than becoming different the lightbulb: it’s fundamentally 6 screws, pulling off a bezel, unconnecting [sic] a aged shade as well as plugging this a single in. That’s it. It’s a 5 minute operation.

Available now.

Pixel Qi arrangement [Maker Shed]