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RE: [Digital BW] Position of laptop screen

2007-03-13 by Paul Roark

CDTobie wrote:

>Laptops, in order to save battery power, use a narrow band of 
>full brightness (kind of like how a lighthouse takes a light 
>source, and uses fresnel lens to turn it into a narrow band 
>aimed out towards the horizon). This means you 
>should have your eyes perpendicular to a laptop screen to see 
>the right "gamma". 

Is there a product that can reverse this, temporarily, when, for example,
you're trying to show someone else a procedure you're doing on the laptop?
I wonder if there is something like those plastic rear van window "lenses"
that would spread the light.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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