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Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by johnfn »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Very impressive. Can I use it as an external display? I assume not, but that would strongly push me towards buying one.

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Post by alemanek »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing.

Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year minimum gathering all the necessary approvals and likely would still get denied by someone. But, a dumb monitor with no real OS I can expense that without approval. just a heads up to my boss really to say I am buying this and here is why.

I know you are a small company so have to pick your battles. But, maybe something to consider down the road.

EDIt: forgot to say, congrats on the launch. Looks like a great product.

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Post by alberth »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

This is amazing. Congrats.

Question: am I understanding it right that the only potential downside is color accuracy might be off but you get all the other benefits as stated?

(If so, that seems like a great compromise and net better)

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Post by robgibbons »

e-_pusher wrote: post #295
robgibbons wrote: post #289

Really compelling product. Is the light temperature adjustable?

Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this product. Yes - the backlight temperature allows you to adjust it from a pure (albeit on the warmer side) white to pure amber.

Thanks very much for responding. You mentioned backlight, and forgive my ignorance, but is this type of E-paper not front-lit?

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Post by card_zero »

coldtea wrote: post #269
card_zero wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did you say "less addicting"?

For starters, it doesn't come with the whole "light show", it's black and white. "Minimalist" types often suggest turning your smartphone into B&W mode (usually an accessibility setting), precisely to reduce temptation to watch videos, social media, and such.

Elsewhere in this thread I see comments that mention "low distraction", "calmer", and something about iPhones frying kids' brains.

This all looks like snobbery to me, based on the association of monochrome paper with novels and writing and intellectual pursuits. In the 18th century we were scared that novels would fry the brains of young women, but times have changed and now it's iPhones that are sinful, and monochrome displays are virtuous, apparently.

I think I might be going off the idea of e-ink, as a result. But my particular interest is nostalgia for the illustrators of the 80s. I would like to see a full-color portrait format 16-inch e-ink display or tablet. Preferably as addicting as possible, because outside of actual pharmacology that word just means "fun".

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Post by Difwif »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #47
aresant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instantly bought this to support your mission A "calm" computer interface is such a welcome idea and quality pursuit Participating in the good of the digital world - information access, communication, creativity While mitigating the bad - always on notifications, bio-hostile blue light interface, doom scrolling etc I hope that this V1 release of your philosophy is successful enough to keep building To that end what a…

holy moly dude you are articulating our value prop and philosophy even better than we can glad to be on the same team! long term goals/plans - make a whole ecosystem of healthier, distraction free computers.. phones, laptops, monitors, workstations, watches, PDAs, epaper whiteboards, etc - make awesome software that we can offer as public goods, funded by cash flow from hardware and memberships etc - make 'magical an…

If you stick with an open source ethos and allow anyone to hack and write software for these things... you're going to find a highly devoted niche of lifetime customers. I am one of them. Great work!

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Post by mofeien »

enduser wrote: post #300

This looks really neat and I’d love to see if it becomes a viable replacement for rM2. For now it reminded me that I can set my OLED iPad to monochrome (via Accessibility > Display > Color Filters and crank up Night Shift). I just added shortcuts to my dock to toggle between these modes. Now I have the best of all worlds.. Typing this from my Magic Keyboard at 120fps 264ppi in warm monochrome. I do wish I could get a…

Thanks for the inspiration. Works on android 14, too, under accessibility options -> color correction, and you can set a two finger swipe up gesture to switch between the modes.

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Post by therein »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #124
floundy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lack of any 3rd party hands-on video reviews was the biggest red flag that halted any consideration I had to purchase this product.

they're coming!! but i appreciate your skepticism until there's more video proof, i am the same too many broken promises by other tech cos, i understand we have to earn your trust there should be more video reviews coming out on twitter though from early customers / testers .. if i wasnt drowning in launch, id try to find you a link, if anyone else could help !

I have both rM and rM2. I reverse engineered the rM refresh API and made an open-source framework out of it. This device looks very interesting and I actually wanted to grab one to play with but the next batch ships so far into the future that I decided to wait.

If you could send me a unit (which I'll of course pay for) on a more accelerated schedule, I'd love to explore the device. Let me know.

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