Reminds me of the glass cases containing the sports section that bars occasionally put above urinals. Maybe that could be a good use case for a very fancy bar somewhere.
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)
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It does look cool, but I think the last thing I want on my wall is yet more 'news'. I was about to say something similar about the price; for that money I can just stick the newspaper itself up on the wall. OTOH if the display is already 2300EUR, I can't see how the OP can possibly make any money on this, especially with free global shipping, returns, etc, etc.
> OTOH if the display is already 2300EUR, I can't see how the OP can possibly make any money on this, especially with free global shipping, returns, etc, etc. I don't think they are making money out of this. The display is 2300€ without VAT and the OP is selling them with 2783€ with 21% VAT, so it's exactly the same price.
I assumed that they are able to buy the displays at some kind of wholesale/discounted price?
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#173This 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…
Hey, thanks. Yeah it seems it could be run just fine without some cloud based third party paid services, and the suite is nice and accessible, that's cool. I am just really confused by Visionect product page I guess.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#174This one is not very big but is only $200 something: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804712947613.html
And it supports red. So you get, black, white and red pixels.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#175Looks 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.
Wasn't Bill Gates who patented something like this idea many years ago?
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks really cheap too.
Hmmmm, trying to see your point of view, what I would do differently.... If one is going to use plywood for the frame, maybe a nice "multi-ply" plywood (Europly, Apple Ply, etc.). The Japanese kids make speakers from plywood and love to show off the "plys" because they use the good multi-ply stuff. Frame could be cut with more CNC precision? (Looking at the inner cut in particular). Maybe the stand should be cut from…
Hi, those are nice ideas, thank you!
The refreshes definitely only happen if pixels change - did I write something somewhere that suggested otherwise? If you let me know I can fix it :)
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#177This one is not very big but is only $200 something: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804712947613.html
I think I'd probably go for this one[1] - smaller (12.5" vs 10.3") but just over double the pixels (1872x1404 vs 1304x894) and 16 grayscales for about the same price.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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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 wort…
Appreciate the input. And you’re right, I shouldn’t have made the Reddit jab. It’s as childish as what I’ve been seeing here.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#179It’s been 16 years since the Kindle was released and I am super bummed that e-ink/e-paper is still so friggin expensive and esoteric.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built our own CMS, so no need for a subscription
I am simply not interested in that sort of limitation on a display device, regardless of the available work arounds. Just sell me an eink monitor and be done with it. This is digital sign technology as can be seen at https://www.visionect.com/products/ , and has very little place in the home. It is a waste of resources in that location.
I don't think you can buy a large eink screen as a consumer anywhere because of the shenanigans of the company that owns the eink technology. I forgot the exact details, but it was discussed here several times in the past.