Jepsen Works to Raise Laptop Battery Life to 20-40 Hours

From Yahoo! Tech -

Ex-OLPC CTO (and before that, ex-head of Intel's display division) Mary Lou Jepsen plans to start shipping ultra-low power screens for laptops and e-books by the second half of next year that people can read in direct sunlight and have a fully saturated HDTV-quality color mode. The screens will cost a third that of traditional LCD screens and use about a tenth of the power.

Jepsen's start-up company, Pixel Qi, is also developing notebooks around the technology, allowing them to be so energy efficient they'll be able to run on a standard laptop battery for 20 to 40 hours before needing a recharge.