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E-paper is making it's way into museums

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Re: E-paper is making it's way into museums

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Post by deltawave »

detaro wrote: post #60
epaulson wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any good hackable e-ink tablets? I love the feel of my Nook but the software is terrible. I want to be able to wirelessly sync content from my own document management system without much fuss. I periodically poke around on Alibaba looking for basic, blank e-ink readers but haven't seen much.

Sony made some models running Android that you could root, but I think their current offerings don't have that. For others (some Kindles, I think Nooks?) jailbreaks were also available, so that is something worth researching.

The nook can be rooted to run Android, I'm not sure if the newest models have the capability: http://www.babblingengineer.com/how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-...

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Post by jordache »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #54
vincentkriek wrote: post #4

Although 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"?

How about showing different slides to show more text. Imagine it rotating between 5 blocks of text. That's 5x the information you can display. I'm usually disappointed by the tiny amounts of texts those little placards show.

I imagine if the screen refreshed frequently, that would greatly reduce the battery life of these displays making them much more tricky to maintain

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Post by laurent123456 »

jordache wrote: post #62

is replacing physical labels such a significant overhead for museums? I would think in the effort associated with updating art pieces, the new label is a drop in the bucket.

Also, like all software, the digital labels are unlikely to "just work" so maintenance will become an additional expense, which is likely to be more expensive than just printing labels.

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Post by sbuttgereit »

trav4225 wrote: post #35
coldpie wrote: post #19

"making it is way"

For some reason, everyone on Hacker News spells it "it's"... :-/

And don't get me started on "their", "there", or "they're"... though on Hacker News commenters knowledgeable of the correct usage of "their" and "there" seems to be the least common.

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Post by [deleted] »

cmod wrote: post #34

A good case where design really does matter. These things stick out like sore thumbs. Good museum labels blend. They certainly don't look like old thermostats. I can't imagine most museum curators would dare to put these on their walls. And anyway — why constrain all information to a single display. If the goal is to get more information about a painting to a view, there are more solutions both more efficient and kin…

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Post by michaelbuddy »

ekianjo wrote: post #25
douche wrote: post #22

Earlier 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 is like a decade old now I think.

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Post by Tharkun »

jordache wrote: post #62

is replacing physical labels such a significant overhead for museums? I would think in the effort associated with updating art pieces, the new label is a drop in the bucket.

I don't think the act of replacing them is the biggest cost, but having to make hundreds (or thousands) of custom printed labels is definitely costly. I can see this saving time and money in a lot of places.
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