Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology vastly reduced the cost of creating monitors for computers and other electronic devices. LCD display screens are used in everything from calculators and clocks to high-definition flatscreen televisions. LCD display technology is not perfect, and there are still a few issues to resolve. One of them is the utter failure of LCD displays to work in sunlight. This is known as glare. It occurs when sunlight shines onto a display screen and obscures the images from view. Advances in technology have made sunlight LCD displays practical enough to offer them to the public. These new LCD screens are able to be viewed in sunlight without any problem.

LCD screens watched in sunlight offer new advantages to consumers, businesses and even the military. All-weather LCD screens are used by the armed forces as critical devices to display needed information without having to worry that the screen will be ruined by rain or be unviewable in sunlight. Sunlight LCD displays have been seen in consumer electronics devices for a few years now. The Amazon Kindle is famous for its imperviousness to sunlight. The best current models even allow customers to switch off the backlight and use sunlight to view the screen. This works very well with current e-reader models that use technologies like e-ink.

Sunlight LCD displays are different from using sunlight as the backlight for LCD screens through fiber optics. While visually impressive, that does not solve the problem of the screen being opaque when exposed to sunlight. New technology is beginning to put sunlight LCD displays in range of a broader market.