{"id":923,"date":"2002-03-01T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=923"},"modified":"2002-03-01T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T21:08:00","slug":"a-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/01\/17\/08\/a-modest-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Screens<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/3\/24241.html\">Sehert said the CPU only accounted for seven per cent of the typical power consumption of a mobile device  (al<br \/>\nthough the chipset accounted for another 13 per cent). With the LCD sucking up a third of the power consumed<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It seems to m<br \/>\ne<br \/>\nthat controlling power consumption requires a user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=eye+tracking\">eye-tracking<\/a> mode. As I look at my dual screen setup, at every moment my focus rests only on a small couple of square cm of the screen. Surely with eye tracking it should be possible to dim\/fade the rest of the screen, cutting down power consumption.<\/p>\n<p>This might also have advantages for graphics cards\/CPU, because you could concentrate on doing most your rendering and aliasing in only the portion of the screen within eye focus. For that to work you&#8217;d need some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googl\ne.com\/search?q=tile-based+rendering\">tile-based<\/a> card technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Screens Sehert said the CPU only accounted for seven per cent of the typical power consumption of a mobile device (al though the chipset accounted for another 13 per cent). With the LCD&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}