Finding a Display You Can Read in the Sun?

max3000 asks: "I'm currently building an embedded device that will be used outdoors, and the technology is pretty much nailed down at this point, except the display. Quite honestly, I'm confused and lost in all the display technologies out there: LCD (TFT, passive/active, and so forth), ChLCD, OLED, FED, AMLCD, EL, electrophoretic, ePaper like eInk, and more (some of which may overlap). Can you help a confused, fellow reader? What I need is (apparently) fairly complicated: an outdoor, sunlight-readable (at-a-glance readable, not squint-your-eyes readable), VGA/SVGA display. The display should have a 4-6 inch diagonal, capable of displaying at least 16 color grayscale, and it should be based on a technology with a roadmap to color in 2-3 years time. If not driveable directly from a PC, the display should come with a development kit that is." What small displays are out there that can meet these specifications?

Re:Have you looked?

[QuantumG]

heh, buying a few bananas and heading off to ask the monkeys at the zoo would be more productive than asking Slashdot.

ebay

[Anonymous Coward]

i got my sun monitor off of ebay for $30. its a 22" monitor but hey it plugs into my solaris box.

Priorities!

[dour power]

I'm pretty sure you would have other things [wikipedia.org] to worry about if you were in the sun.

300?

[vertinox]

Emissary: The thousand nations of the Slashdot Empire descend upon you! Our moderation points will blot out the sun!
Stelios: [grins] Then we will post comments in the shade.