From Walter Bender, in the 8/5/06 OLPC newsletter:

``We have reached an important milestone this week: the dual-mode
display now works in prototype! We have been counting on Mary Lou
Jepsen's new approach to LCD displays to help us achieve our price and
power consumption targets and enable our expected models of indoor and
outdoor use, while also rapidly achieving mass production. We now have
a display that can readily be mass produced in standard LCD factories,
with no process changes. Our display has higher resolution than 95% of
the laptop displays on the market today; approximately 1/7th the power
consumption; 1/3rd the price; sunlight readability; and room-light
readability with the backlight off.''

This is claimed to be a 1200x900 8-bit grayscale display at 200 dpi,
which will cost manufacturers approximately $35. A diffraction
grating behind it, plus white LED backlights, allows it to be used in
a lower-resolution somewhat odd "swizzled" color mode. A mockup of
the color-mode operation can be seen at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GTK_for_OLPC.

Bill