DARPA taps dpiX for military LCDs

The Defense Advanced-research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., is supervising a project at dpiX, a Xerox New Enterprise company in Palo Alto, Calif. (http://www. xerox.com/dpix) to develop high-resolution reflective-mode display technologies that could provide land warriors with digital maps, real-time video, and other important information. Scientists at dpiX have produced active-matrix liquid crystal displays containing 7 million pixels - 300 dots per inch - in an 8.5-by-11-inch area. This technology could lead to wrist-mounted and hand-held displays that are much more readable outdoors than displays are today, says dpiX Display Manager Carl Cobb. The dpiX operation is a spinoff from Xerox PARC. - J.K.