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

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Post by notorandit »

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…

What is the expected useful lifespan of such a display? I mean, how long will it last with at least 50 fps and no dead "pixels"?

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Post by mdp2021 »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #562
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…

Why is there zero information about your company on the website? Especially given you want people to give you nearly a grand for something that hasn't even entered production yet? "About us: A more caring computer company"? Are you serious? Stop trying to be "cute." Even in you HN comment you don't tell us your name. What's with all the secrecy?

> Even in you HN comment you don't tell us your name. What's with all the secrecy?

It's in the profile.

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

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Post by geraldwhen »

natsucks wrote: post #347
geraldwhen wrote: post #259

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https://www.thelightphone.com/ An e ink phone already exists, in reality. I don’t know why you would hold out hope for a Kickstarter.

I've been using the light phone 2 off and on for the past year. It's too painful to use.

How so? I’d like to hear why

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

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Post by mdp2021 »

jeron wrote: post #473
dot5xdev wrote: post #70

I'm a current owner of a Ratta Supernote A5X. I use the Supernote all the time. I previously had a Remarkable 2, but thankfully Remarkable added a subscription which made me look elsewhere and led me to the Supernote. This seems right up my alley. Although, $800 seems steep. The new Supernote A5X2 is due this year... at probably half the price? Granted it doesn't have the 60fps display, but it definitely has a bunch…

$800 is ridiculously steep. I could buy 8 kindles for that price

It is the same range of current high end E-Ink based Android tablets.

(See for example the Onyx Boox Ultra C.)

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Post by Theodores »

snypher wrote: post #326
sodality2 wrote: post #265

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One common psychological trick addictive social media uses is high saturation color, as it causes our monkey brains to enjoy it slightly more. This is monotone and I’d assume that’s a relevant feature point

I often use ctrl-win-c shortcut for black and white mode in Windows, it's great to rest the eyes.

On Ubuntu it is not quite like that.

https://github.com/ionutbortis/gnome-bedtime-mode

Yeah, you have to do some installing to get the feature you never knew you needed.

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

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Post by mdp2021 »

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #120

To me the videos are absolutely mind blowing, congratulations on the launch. It feels like a leap forward in an area of tech that has totally stagnated (e-ink). I think this device is tackling a few hard problems all at once. Well done and I wish you luck.

> the videos

Please note (you will find info in these very pages) that they are tentative, made on prototypes. And they were apparently meant to be demonstrative of capabilities, not of real-life experience.

The Company says they will be updated.

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Post by RossBencina »

yosito wrote: post #524
noduerme wrote: post #428

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I second this. I really enjoy reading and writing on an Onyx e-ink tab, and I like the full Android functionality, but I can never use it for work or even for personal email logins, because I don't trust their custom Android build. I would be somewhat more inclined to trust Daylight than Onyx, but any custom OS is too potentially vulnerable to backdoors for my use cases. Something like this that you could load your o…

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

Good, but definitely not 60fps or ghosting free. Source: using one right now.

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Post by nathan_compton »

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…

If it doesn't run linux, its not a computer.

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Post by ijaack94 »

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…

Hey there, congrats! I was really looking forward to a tablet made this way.

Two Qs: 1) is the refresh rate locked at 60 fps? Or does it vary between 60 and 120? This is a big deal for me, as I suffer eye strain from low refresh rate displays 2) Why does it cost 'so much'? I mean, what's included in the 729$?

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Post by RossBencina »

luyu_wu wrote: post #341
yencabulator wrote: post #227

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I bet people would pay good money for a Framework display module that's usable eInk. (Assuming it can use the same display connector.) https://frame.work/products/display-kit?v=FRANGX0001 https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Display+Replacement+Guide/86...

Wenting Zhang made a proof of concept for this, it's somewhere on his Twitter, Youtuhe, or Github :) Definetly would be amazing to have for the Framework.

Seems like they'll be shipping dev kits on crowd supply soon. Was posted on HN last week:

Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358309

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