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Looks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted. Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.
I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your…
For 2500 bucks I can probably pay the person who delivers my daily newspaper to come inside and hang it on the wall for me for at least 10 years.
Other commenter [1] mentioned that there's a subscription required. I found no pricing link, but saw a subscription on the parent page [2] listed at 60 per year. So if we're talking 10 years, then it's closer to 3000.
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It is absolutely worth it! The Visionect display require a subscription to run properly: https://www.visionect.com/software/ . 60 Euro / year to run a display that I paid almost 1k for is not for private use. I guess that's why the price for the 32 inch display is so high, the subscription is priced in.
We built our own CMS, so no need for a subscription
If i had an eink display for writing code i would be so happy.
I've tried it and it sucked. Scrolling will require a full refresh and it takes too long.
I would love a battery powered 32" E Ink screen that does nothing on its own, but lets me send it images to display. But for that I guess I would have to give that thing access to my wifi? I wouldn't want that. Any ideas if such a product exists and how one could use it shielded from the internet?
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No, this isn't true. I run the Visionect software suite ( https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/index.html ) on a Raspberry pi and the screen talks to it over localhost. No outbound connectivity or subscription is needed.
Thank you. I think their product page is pushing cloud subscription too hard, they call subscription the same way they call display itself, and subscription is paid and cloud based. Product page says: "Place & Play devices work on a subscription basis. Select a plan here.", and "A license is needed for every device." while describing software suite. I'm still confused about the way it presented, but documentation and…
The only place that page mentions a subscription is in reference to news paper subscriptions.
I have the same thing, gitlab job scheduled every 12 hours refreshes it using the visionect docker image, I have google calendar at the bottom, and currency exchange over the top left, localized weather on the right, countdowns to holidays, F1 schedules ect... I decreased the heartbeat timer and battery lasts about 2 months. I can't find an asian or european news paper that gives a good high res front page like the N…
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A curt dismissal is entirely appropriate for a suggestion that's absurd on its face. No one's actually going to pay some random mail delivery person to come into their house every day and hang up a newspaper for ten years.
Yes, it's absurd. But for most people paying this amount of money to get a single page of a newspaper on their wall for however long the screen and cloud service work is also absurd. Despite looking extremely cool, it's a pretty small group of people this is targeting.