A great breakthrough in producing laptops that one day could be provided to every child in the world. See previous blog
The last (and hardest) hurdle that had to be overcome to meet the $100 price point was how to make a cheaper screen. So, One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte hired Mary Lou Jepsen, display guru, away from her job as chief technology officer in Intel’s display division to become CTO at OLPC. And Jepsen has more than met expectations.

She claims to have developed a screen with a display that can be easily mass-produced in standard LCD factories, costs one-third of the price of traditional screens, has a higher resolution than 95 percent of the laptop displays on the market today, uses about one-seventh of traditional power consumption, and can be read in sunlight or room light without backlighting. Wow...amazing.

Here is the full interview with Jepsen conducted by Eric Lundquist for eweek.com

So, does the passion necessary to solve social issues make us stretch to solve the 'impossible?"

And how does this impact the 'traditional' display makers? Seems like they will be hardpressed to keep the cost of screens at their 'traditional' price levels now!

Ms. Jepsen, I am in awe!

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive