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Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

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Post by andresmh »

allwein wrote: post #43
SwellJoe wrote: post #13

The last thing I need is another place to write by hand. Handwriting is an incredibly inefficient way to transmit information from brain to computer, especially for me (I'm dysgraphic). I just want a very long-life note-taking tablet with a decent keyboard. There's a reason the old Tandy 100 is still in use by a handful of journalists. Nothing has really taken the place of it, as far as I know. The Kindle keyboard is…

>I just want a very long-life note-taking tablet with a decent keyboard. I think you would like the Alphasmart NEO. http://www.neo-direct.com/NEO/default.aspx It's got a full-sized keyboard with a built-in 6 line LCD screen. It runs on 3 AA batteries or a rechargeable pack and it honestly runs forever. I got one originally 5 years ago when I did Nanowrimo for the first time. I use it all the time when I'm in the mood…

wow, I might get this for writing my dissertation

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#102

Post by andresmh »

pangram wrote: post #97
dstein wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi I'm selling a productivity boosting technology called "internet blackout", it will improve your company's output by about 3-4 fold while this technology is turned on.

Thanks, I already have a hosts file. Now if I only had the willpower to point ycombinator to 127.0.0.1, I'd have tons of extra time.

I hope you don't memorize the IP address :P

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#103

Post by andresmh »

divtxt wrote: post #48

Am I the only one who thinks this is an obvious fake?!!! 180 hrs battery, usb, SD, wifi, mp3 player - all for $99! Hardware guys please let us know if this is even feasible and what the BOM would be! I'm guessing us doodlers & sketchers will have to wait a few more years. EDIT: just saw the Boogie Board post and clearly I'm wrong about the feasibility of a basic slate. Someone please make one: just needs sketch and U…

I really hope it is not fake. One data point: seems like their site is hosted in the Czech Republic.

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#105

Post by vertr »

micheljansen wrote: post #71

I am pretty sure this is a hoax (too many jokes in the copy below the image), but I think an "e-ink thin client" seriously is not a bad idea. Think livescribe, but bidirectional (not just the writing on the pad is saved, but it can also be viewed). Link it to a web service a la Evernote and go :)

If this is real, Evernote should buy them and sell it as the Evernote pad. Would be amazing.

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#106

Post by dspillett »

Sindisil wrote: post #76
SwellJoe wrote: post #13

The last thing I need is another place to write by hand. Handwriting is an incredibly inefficient way to transmit information from brain to computer, especially for me (I'm dysgraphic). I just want a very long-life note-taking tablet with a decent keyboard. There's a reason the old Tandy 100 is still in use by a handful of journalists. Nothing has really taken the place of it, as far as I know. The Kindle keyboard is…

Two hours on a netbook? Seriously? My NC-10 is getting long in the tooth on its original 6-cell battery, but it still gets 4.5-6 hours, depending upon what I'm doing, and I seldom (read "almost never") remember to turn off wifi, which is a major power suck.

Quite a few netbooks come (or came: the average spec may have increased since I bought mine two years ago) with a little 3-cell battery: some Acer models like my AA1 and some Dells like a friends Mini9, to name two.

Nice and light, but you only get about 2-to-2-ana-half hours (three if you are careful with screen brightness and turn wireless off). I have a chunky after-market battery that lives in the Acer giving ~7 hours active use with everything turned on, but sometimes chuck the little one back in for the size/weight convenience.

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#107

Post by retroguy »

roshanr wrote: post #72
retroguy wrote: post #6

I've been looking for something to replace pen and paper for quite sometime and have never quite taken to any of the available solutions (Livescribe, Tablet PC) but this looks spot on. I'd have liked to have seen a video though, too early to tell whether it will actually make it to market, as advertised, as polished looking and as low priced. Fingers crossed.

I was wondering about LiveScribe as a note taking tool myself. What about it don't you like?

The pen is simply too big, my preference is for a smaller pen.

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#108

Post by keefe »

lukifer wrote: post #68

I would love to have something like this for sketching out UI/design ideas. Digital tools are typically too bulky, and awkward for collaboration; pencil and paper lack the ability to save and re-edit easily. And at $99, it's cheap enough that I'm willing to gamble on it. Consider me sold once it's available for sale.

it looks fucking amazing, I can't wait to get hold of one. If it lives up to the marketing images, I think this is a game changer.

Re: E-ink writing pad, Noteslate.

#109

Post by aamar »

cma wrote: post #54
mikedouglas wrote: post #14

Isn't the poor refresh rate one of the disadvantages of e-ink displays? And isn't the long battery life a function of use (ie. e-ink displays only use significant power when refreshing)? Writing on displays also has texture and resolution issues that can't be ignored: it needs to look and feel like a paper drawing. Lots of hard questions, but if they pulled it off, I'll be first in line.

As I understand it, the poor refresh is because each pixel element doesn't store its state in silicon; the physical orientation/charge/whatever of the display element itself is the state. So you have to wait on each pixel to change before moving on to another (you can of course do multiple chunks in parallel, but your bus is only so wide). In an active-matrix lcd you write to a memory cell that lives close to the liq…

The response time for individual pixels is quite slow, around 250ms. It takes that long to apply the necessary sequence of voltages to get a clear image without visible ghosting. That slowness is an obstacle even if you had no bus limitations. Something like the loading indicator might be moving faster, but ghosting is acceptable for something like that.

I wrote low-level software for E Ink displays years ago, when the practical response time was more like 400ms IIRC. At the time, drawing lagged too much to be pleasant for a consumer device. Maybe now, if you do something clever with a quick 1st pass and a slow 2nd, darkening pass, you could get a reasonable result... Maybe.

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