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PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by vanderZwan »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #25
noblethrasher wrote: post #6

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It could work if IDEs ever get richer typography. I experimented with a monochromatic color scheme for my F# projects. Basically, I wanted the code to look like a page from a beautifully typeset math book. It got pretty close, but for want of italics, which VS does not support.

Fortress? I'm playing around with rich IDE typography right now (but with color ), it especially pops out at higher DPIs. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...

Hey, you're actually the author of these articles! I remember seeing them before.

Got an RSS feed to make it easy to keep up with your articles?

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by WalterBright »

jkaunisv1 wrote: post #155
delish wrote: post #152

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Check out Alphasmarts. They're ~$40 on ebay. I have three models: Dana, Neo, and 3000. They have: - sunlight readable display - no internet temptation - full keyboard designed by former Mac engineers, so it looks and feels good - no moving parts (journalists take them into third-world countries) - long battery life. (Dana: 24 hours, Neo and 3000: 700) - They're recognized as USB keyboards, so you can output to comput…

The feature that's important for me is having immediate physical output. I don't like reading what I just wrote off a small LCD display. And I like having the paper result right away, but it would be nice to have a digital copy if I wanted to edit the document further. But thanks for the lead!

A mechanical typewriter and some white-out correction fluid?

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by throwaway_f »

wlesieutre wrote: post #102
ekianjo wrote: post #34

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> Impressive refresh rate! Yeah, and apparently no need to go to the black state required on current e-ink screens?

JamesMcMinn, your posts are being marked as dead. Not clear why, try getting in touch with the mods if you read this.

HN hell banning real name accounts now?

Unbelievable. This site forces people to communicate like they're being watched by their professor, and it still passive aggressively bans people who merely dissent once and a while.

Just wait until an alternative site emerges. One that doesn't have a concept of crimethink for the sake of "preserving the community".

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by edeion »

unicornporn wrote: post #168
delish wrote: post #152

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Check out Alphasmarts. They're ~$40 on ebay. I have three models: Dana, Neo, and 3000. They have: - sunlight readable display - no internet temptation - full keyboard designed by former Mac engineers, so it looks and feels good - no moving parts (journalists take them into third-world countries) - long battery life. (Dana: 24 hours, Neo and 3000: 700) - They're recognized as USB keyboards, so you can output to comput…

These are along the lines of what I've been dreaming, but I'm afraid the screen is far too small. I'm not plagued by LCDs either. My MacBook Pro screen is perfect. However, I want a digital experience completely without distractions, like the one I have with my Kindle (but for writing). I have an idea that I call TypewriterOS. An USB bootable OS (probably based on Linux) that goes directly into a full screen text edi…

Are you looking for this: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....? Not exactly what you are looking for, but a starting point, maybe.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by mst »

warfangle wrote: post #90
headmelted wrote: post #45

I'd love to eventually see a low-end Chromebook built around one of these displays. You're already volunteering for a limited experience in exchange for convenience there, and I can see the battery life outweighing the negatives with the display. (And you probably have a phone or tablet with a higher resolution screen in your pocket/bag/whatever anyway.) Obviously it's cost prohibitive right now, but as throwawaymsft…

I actually really want to run my terminals on an e-ink display. The reduction of eyestrain would be a boon. Once color e-ink displays are available, I'd move emacs over to it as soon as possible.

While it's totally not the same, I found that for late night hacking amber on black terminals and cranking the brightness down is fantastic.

(I don't use colours though, my normal terminal setup is green on black)

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by jkaunisv1 »

WalterBright wrote: post #172
jkaunisv1 wrote: post #155

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The feature that's important for me is having immediate physical output. I don't like reading what I just wrote off a small LCD display. And I like having the paper result right away, but it would be nice to have a digital copy if I wanted to edit the document further. But thanks for the lead!

A mechanical typewriter and some white-out correction fluid?

You're missing the digital part. And I don't mean editing typos, I mean real editing. And things like being able to turn it into a blog post, for example.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by jdhawk »

jkaunisv1 wrote: post #137
netcan wrote: post #95

I have an old kobo e-reader that's been in flight mode since day 1. It's amazing the difference I feel between reading on a tablet and an ereader. The ereader doesn't really feel like a "device," more like a book. On a tablet, I'm googling (Can you really ride from Winterfell to Kings Landing in a week? How fast do ravens fly? Lets see what the internet thinks.). They might be related to the book. They might not. Ema…

I've been daydreaming of a typewriter that appends to a file on a USB stick so when you're done writing you can take it to a computer to edit. There's also the Hemingwrite https://hemingwrite.com/ which is like an eInk typewriter. I prefer having immediate physical output which is why I'd rather have a mechanical typewriter that also saves to digital. But it might be what you're looking for.

http://www.usbtypewriter.com/products/easy-conversion-kit

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by Tcepsa »

api wrote: post #133
z0r wrote: post #123

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Someday soon we'll be able to order ourselves one-off machines like this (or any way we like). At least that's my hope

You could already hack something like that up if you want to spend the time: very low power ARM or MIPS board, Linux, e-ink display.

The problem, at least for me, is that 13" is about the minimum screen that I'm willing to consider, and this is the second display of that size that I've seen (the first being Sony's Digital Paper, which is currently prohibitively expensive for me). I'm hoping that the price on this will come down into my range once the tech gets proven out a bit, though if it ends up getting positive reviews I might not wait.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by noblethrasher »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #162
noblethrasher wrote: post #33

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Thanks… I actually got the idea to start using proportional typefaces from a comment that you made. Another thing that I tried was to extract each font variant into a separate file, and then to force VS to use those explicitly for different code element types, but that didn't work.

Cool. You might want to try a san serif font; serif fonts aren't really in fashion right now :)

It's funny, but for me languages have typographic affinities. Of the ones that I regularly use:, F# feels like it should be Garamond, C# and JavaScript feel fine in pretty much any monospace sans serif typeface, and VB is most congruent with "fun" typefaces like comic sans (I don't mean that as a dig).

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by sun_jh »

I think the best usage scenario for an e-ink screen is the portable devices scenario, but I don't think 13.3" is made to be portable. And this monitor is not touchable, so we can image a man holding the monitor in his left hand to read, and a smart phone in the other hand to turn page(if the monitor can be compatible with smart phone). And another thing I have to say is it's to expensive for me. I can buy two e-ink readers with this price, one for me and one for my wife so she won't complain to me how boring to look after a baby all day. But the refresh rate really surprised me, and I hope the company can do more market research for the next production.
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