The screen was a transflective LCD display from Pixel Qi.

Pixel Qi was always one of those companies I thought should have succeeded but didn't.

This a decent walk through of their timeline in tech history:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...

Still today I would love to have a minimalist 'typewriter' laptop that I could work with just sitting outdoors in full sun.