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Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

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Post by gennarro »

Companies have tried for years [0] to make progress here and none of these problems (ghosting, refresh time, price) have proved solvable given the quantity of units demanded. I wonder if anything has changed or if this is just an exploratory survey that precedes any of those advances

0: https://cloudconfusing.com/2020/02/07/e-ink-monitors-ready-f...

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

#32

Post by arnsholt »

reacharavindh wrote: post #30
fho wrote: post #23

I am still hoping for a large, reasonable priced eInk display that I can frame and hang up on a wall. Does not even have to be color, I would be fine with just changing through different black&white dithered images over time. But large eInk displays are prohibitively expensive for what is basically a gimmick :-/

This. I'd buy a reasonably priced 10+ inch E-ink display that I can use as an art display on the wall or a creative dashboard of things I care about. However, anything above the size of a Kindle is too expensive for this purpose. A kindle is rather too small... I will wait until I can buy one for I dont need wifi, "smart", or "cloud" features in it. Just the ability to push images into it statically.

Inkplate (https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate.html) might work for you. It's still something you have to program yourself, but it's fairly streamlined.

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

#33

Post by HidyBush »

It's incredible how as a society we have accepted that people must spend hours upon hours glued to screens that were never made to be reading devices.

It would be like if we invented sofas before chairs and so every office worker needs to awkwardly work on a sofa instead if sitting on a nice Herman Miller

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

#34

Post by RedBeetDeadpool »

fho wrote: post #23

I am still hoping for a large, reasonable priced eInk display that I can frame and hang up on a wall. Does not even have to be color, I would be fine with just changing through different black&white dithered images over time. But large eInk displays are prohibitively expensive for what is basically a gimmick :-/

Good news is they do exist, and manufacturers do make them even if they are prohibitively expensive. If you want it enough you can actually pay to get it made and shipped to you, which is better than not having that option at all.

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

#35

Post by fho »

arnsholt wrote: post #32
reacharavindh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I'd buy a reasonably priced 10+ inch E-ink display that I can use as an art display on the wall or a creative dashboard of things I care about. However, anything above the size of a Kindle is too expensive for this purpose. A kindle is rather too small... I will wait until I can buy one for I dont need wifi, "smart", or "cloud" features in it. Just the ability to push images into it statically.

Inkplate ( https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate.html ) might work for you. It's still something you have to program yourself, but it's fairly streamlined.

Nah ... those are still tiny compared to even a DIN A2 poster.

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

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Post by Guest19023892 »

reacharavindh wrote: post #30
fho wrote: post #23

I am still hoping for a large, reasonable priced eInk display that I can frame and hang up on a wall. Does not even have to be color, I would be fine with just changing through different black&white dithered images over time. But large eInk displays are prohibitively expensive for what is basically a gimmick :-/

This. I'd buy a reasonably priced 10+ inch E-ink display that I can use as an art display on the wall or a creative dashboard of things I care about. However, anything above the size of a Kindle is too expensive for this purpose. A kindle is rather too small... I will wait until I can buy one for I dont need wifi, "smart", or "cloud" features in it. Just the ability to push images into it statically.

I was planning to do a similar project and I was thinking about the below displays. Leaning towards the 10.3" because of the price and resolution.

https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/...

https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/...

Re: The Modos Paper Monitor

#39

Post by dotancohen »

fho wrote: post #35
arnsholt wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inkplate ( https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate.html ) might work for you. It's still something you have to program yourself, but it's fairly streamlined.

Nah ... those are still tiny compared to even a DIN A2 poster.

There is a 9.7" monitor in there. It's not the 10+" that GP asked for, but it is within 5% of that target.
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