LEGENDARY innovators live on through their genius inventions. Sir Isaac Newton has been one of them.

In his time, even the concept of television may not have existed, but Sir Newton's ideas have helped the 21st century researchers to build a breakthrough technology for televisions!

Engineers in the US have developed TV displays based on a telescope design invented by Isaac Newton to reduce the display's electricity consumption.

The rear layer of a conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) used in televisions produces light (backlight), whose brightness is controlled by small liquid crystals that swing round like tiny shutters. However, most of this backlight is wasted and never reaches the viewer.

In the portrait: Sir Isaac Newton