This looks neat at a first glance but who actually wants to read the newspaper standing up facing a wall? I personally prefer to do it sitting down in a comfortable sofa or outside on a park bench.
Michael Scott?
32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#162I feel like this DIY project needs its own DIY to build a cheaper 32” e-ink screen.
Sarcasm aside, thanks for sharing! The largest display I’ve seen has been 11” until now.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Then let them have their fun? I’m not sure what the issue is here. Just seems like folks working on their tight 5 and announcing to everyone how shrewd they are for declaring how dumb they think this product is. Feels like I’m back on reddit already lol
The person you're replying to was just making a sensible observation that was relative to the conversation - I don't see any problem with what they said, nor relevance to Reddit's typical comments.
You on the other hand haven't added to the discussion but instead broke one of HN's guidelines:
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Maybe worth checking the whole page out, then you can help keep HN comments as high quality as possible to avoid other people feeling the need to compare to Reddit! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#164This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a pro…
Hey! It's Jay, I'm a journalist and developer and I've done most of the work on the front and backend of Project E Ink. Happy to answer your questions! So what we've done: we're indeed running our own Visionect servers these devices connect to. We've build a friendly and news-centered frontend so the display shows news, updates on new editions (or a user-set timeframe), or forgets about newspapers altogether and disp…
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Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#165Seriously? $2500 when you can get a cheap LCD for 50 bucks?
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#166This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a pro…
Hey! It's Jay, I'm a journalist and developer and I've done most of the work on the front and backend of Project E Ink. Happy to answer your questions! So what we've done: we're indeed running our own Visionect servers these devices connect to. We've build a friendly and news-centered frontend so the display shows news, updates on new editions (or a user-set timeframe), or forgets about newspapers altogether and disp…
I don't think I'm your target demographic but I always appreciate folks who make their hardware accessible like this. Thank you :)
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#167Looks 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.
Was thinking about something like that recently — recalling maybe some kind of art piece from a decade or two back? 1) Place a camera + display somewhere in an urban area of the world so that random pedestrians can come and watch the display, will be on camera. 2) Place any number of these identical setups in other areas of the world. 3) Arbitrarily feed the camera from one to the display of another (shuffle every 24…
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was thinking about something like that recently — recalling maybe some kind of art piece from a decade or two back? 1) Place a camera + display somewhere in an urban area of the world so that random pedestrians can come and watch the display, will be on camera. 2) Place any number of these identical setups in other areas of the world. 3) Arbitrarily feed the camera from one to the display of another (shuffle every 24…
Like this ? : https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/lithuania-polan...
Interesting. I was remembering something from much before 2021 though.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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You can point it to any url on the web, with a JPEG or a PNG of the right resolution. It will poll that URL a few times per minute and display the image.
Can you disable the online integration features? Ie no google login, just be dumb and display what i tell it? Second question, any thoughts on if this could run off of battery? Eink tends to be so low power, i'd love this type of product with a wallhang and periodic charge. Thoughts? The price point is great!
You still need to in to the companion app because the device needs the online backend for computing the render.
But on iOS you can log in with apple. And there is no need to pair with google calendar if you use the image url feature:
https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...
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Batteries drive up the cost for certification and shipping. I think a battery works better together with a bigger, more expensive display, where these costs are less of a concern and which you cannot place on a stand.
(Even though you can definitely hang my display up on the wall and if you don’t have a socket nearby, you can plug it into a battery pack)
Sorry if that’s a lot of text but I think about this stuff every day :D
Hard decisions!
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#170I'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…
Why do larger e-ink screens cost more to produce? Something like this for (e.g. Kanban card-based) project management would be cool, though the contrast at a distance. The PineNote is a 9" eInk development device; 3287cm/3 for $400. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote But it's not going to look as nice as a 32" e-ink display on the wall. Is there a yellow backlight, or a blueish backlight? Is there a low-cost way t…
Smaller market and (I assume) patents and probably some price fixing