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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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#293This 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…
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Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#294This 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 Jay, thanks so much for your work! The screen looks very beautiful but for me personally it would be much more attractive if it could also be used for reading the entire newspaper, not just the front page. Any plans to include (tiny) buttons to switch pages?
In this case, during breakfast I could put the screen on a stand on my table, and read the news without having to resort to a backlit screen / news app on my phone. Though, maybe 32" would be a bit big for my breakfast table, not sure. :)
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#295Looks 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.
This site has feeds of windows around the world: https://www.window-swap.com
Cool! And pretty good quality of the video stream. But for a big tv as a real window, needs to be higher resolution
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't know there was a Unicode code point for that! I'd always thought one should just use straight quotes for inches. Thanks!
Straight quotes are acceptable too: https://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html
That was exactly the reference I turned up—though I (shamefully) didn't read far enough to see the mention of proper foot and inch marks, only the initial recommendation to use straight quotes.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is the target demo? I'm old enough to have had actual newspapers appear on my doorstep. I ever saw anyone mount them on a wall, at least not in a private home. I would think a table/tablet orientation would be more appealing than an awkward wall mount. Is this thing meant to be art, a bit of faux-nostalgia decoration?
I’ve seen newspapers hung above urinals as reading material. Generally the front page or the sports page under glass.
Back in the day, I'd flip it around to display the Fry's ad.
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#298I feel like these gigantic and expensive screens are niche enough that the supplier doesn't need to slap their logo on the front. Ruins the aesthetic.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#299This 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…
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.
I also run visionect locally to power a couple of displays around the house. When I recently went to go buy a few more - it was clear that they require a subscription. I emailed them and they confirmed that they now require a subscription.
It’s a bummer because I don’t think there are as good quality displays to replace visionect with, but the subscription was far too much.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#300Here's my version: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall/