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...it looks like someone needs to invent a faster approval process!
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And no one's mentioned how we see "patent pending" on products all the time?
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Rather ironic, since the LCD is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, power guzzler in most portable devices these days. Short of spinning hard drives, that is.
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If the LCD could at least offer a zero sum power drain, it would sure help; that and I could pump my beautiful VGA screen up to high! |
Well, here's a thought...on flip phones, the external LCD (caller ID, cutesy little images, etc) usually takes a fairly small portion of one side of the phone. Why not make the whole solar panel/external LCD fill a larger area of that side, but only use a small portion of the panel for actually displaying anything, yet use its whole area for solar energy collection. This would actually cause the panel to provide power for more than just the LCD...
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Granted, that wouldn't do as much for "candybar" phones, or Dell Axim / HP iPaq -sized phones, but still...gotta take those extra gains where we can...