German retailer 'Mediamarkt' ( electronics ) already uses e-ink price-tags and displays for over a year now. Seen in NL.
E-paper is making it's way into museums
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#22Here's a link to the hardware: https://www.visionect.com/technology#hardware Details of the controller board: https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectPandaDS.html And the thing that was interesting for me the most, the screens they use: https://docs.visionect.com/ElectronicPaperDisplays.html Now why the screens were most interesting for me? Because "e-paper" name has in the past been used not just for e-ink-like displays…
I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.
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#23Although I can see the advantage of having a digital label in a lot of cases, I don't see the necessity in a museum environment. There is serious human interaction necessary to change the collection to move and change the works of art. It would be easy to change the label at that time. What use case is there to change the label "on the fly"?
One of the reasons from the article is multiple language support.
If you have n signs with different languages next to each other then everybody can read the sign at the same time. If you have one sign that can switch between n different languages then only a subset of the people there can read the sign at the same time.
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#24> seamlessly blending in with the paintings
Certainly does not like so from the pictures.
Re: E-paper is making it's way into museums
#25Here's a link to the hardware: https://www.visionect.com/technology#hardware Details of the controller board: https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectPandaDS.html And the thing that was interesting for me the most, the screens they use: https://docs.visionect.com/ElectronicPaperDisplays.html Now why the screens were most interesting for me? Because "e-paper" name has in the past been used not just for e-ink-like displays…
I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.
How about that ?
https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/d...
Even better maybe, the Onyx Boox Max at 13.3 inches:
http://www.banggood.com/ONYX-BOOX-Max-13_3-Inch-1G16G-Flexib...
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#26Yet an other example of "progress is not obviously better" : like these commercial centers' electronic maps, one guy will be able to handle the device at a given time, and all 5 people around will have to wait him to finish before being able to just know the title. And I'm skeptical about the reduced ecological impact of electricity and electronic devices as compared to paper.
Mmm, in this case, as long as the labels are just labels, I think on the whole for the lifetime of product for net changes.
From the eink site under the bistable display, the device draws once then really isn't drawing power. [1] They claim that theoretically as long as nothing needs to change, it will stay that way.
So, I guess it really depends on how often museums have to change labels or wish to update the labels. Even if it's a one and done, I do think that the net energy savings of a horde of labels as opposed to new label printings every time would result in net savings both financially and ecologically. Often the labels are not just simple paper and require more resources to make, etc.
I don't think this is necessarily saving any rainforests, per say, but I also don't think it's draining electricity.
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#27Various stores in the Netherlands are currently using EPaper like screens as price-tags. Examples are Mediamarkt/Saturn and Makro/Metro.
Nice way to automatically update pricing and have up-to-date pricetags.
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#28Here's a link to the hardware: https://www.visionect.com/technology#hardware Details of the controller board: https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectPandaDS.html And the thing that was interesting for me the most, the screens they use: https://docs.visionect.com/ElectronicPaperDisplays.html Now why the screens were most interesting for me? Because "e-paper" name has in the past been used not just for e-ink-like displays…
I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.
Sony has one which seems really nice (based on the 2 minutes I played with it once):
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/
Unfortunately it is a bit limited (only supports PDF's out of the box) in what it can do and much too expensive.
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#29Anyone seen cheap E-paper solutions, one could use at home for various things?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.
How about that ? https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/d... Even better maybe, the Onyx Boox Max at 13.3 inches: http://www.banggood.com/ONYX-BOOX-Max-13_3-Inch-1G16G-Flexib...
The Kindle DX would be nice, but I'm a little wary of buying used consumer electronics.
I looked at the Boox Max and it looks awesome, but it's a little rich for my blood right now. The regular Kindle costs $80, 10" Fire tablets are selling for $180, so nearly $800 seems like a lot.