You might not have heard of Mirasol before, but we’ve been keeping a close eye on the Qualcomm-owned company since it showed off its colour screen tech late last year. The unusual and full colour displays it’s priming are easy on the eye and vivid too, but a big USP is the benefits they bring to battery life on gadgets sporting them. How big a boost are we talking? In a wide ranging interview, a Mirasol exec declared to us that an iPad with a Mirasol screen in could last three times what it can do now.

