We have great weather here in the Bay Area but are often confined to offices to get our work done because of sunlight glare on our laptop screens.
I've always thought more people would choose to work outside if their laptop had a decent e-ink display that performed well in sunlight. Perhaps there'd even be outdoor co-working spaces complete with gardens, fountains, and grassy lawns to sprawl onto.
I used to have a Toshiba Portege R500 which had a transreflective screen. It was an LCD that could be used in sunlight because incoming light got reflected back from behind the screen. The colors suffered a bit, but you could even switch off the backlight of the screen to save power. Seems to have gone out of fashion unfortunately..
I really loved that the screen on my pebble watch was always on and the thing managed a week of screen on time. The colors looked like crap compared to the newer smart watches but I still feel like something major was lost here.
I've always thought more people would choose to work outside if their laptop had a decent e-ink display that performed well in sunlight. Perhaps there'd even be outdoor co-working spaces complete with gardens, fountains, and grassy lawns to sprawl onto.