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PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by jkot »

headmelted wrote: post #45

I'd love to eventually see a low-end Chromebook built around one of these displays. You're already volunteering for a limited experience in exchange for convenience there, and I can see the battery life outweighing the negatives with the display. (And you probably have a phone or tablet with a higher resolution screen in your pocket/bag/whatever anyway.) Obviously it's cost prohibitive right now, but as throwawaymsft…

Similar devices are around for 3 years now. PixelQi offered 10" display compatible with most netbooks for $220. It even offered color backlight color mode.

In real life the benefits are not that great, screen is still polished glass and reflects everything.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by semperfaux »

lhl wrote: post #37

A few years ago I used to pine for an E-Ink (or later, a Mirasol) display so that I could have sunlight-visible portable computing, but sadly the iPad basically wiped that market away. While the standalone monitor is neat, I think the biggest use-case would still be for a portable/outdoor terminal. That being said, with MEMS-IGZO devices finally coming from Sharp/Qualcomm (Pixtronix) this year (they've been showing i…

While that Sharp tablet looks very interesting, I'd be wary of the fact that they also produce the AQUOS series. I'm currently using a Crystal and it is far and away the single worst touchscreen experience I've had (yes, the G1 did indeed boast more reliable touch performance).

I had it replaced once thanks to the fact that the hardware was known to be defective (well, known to Sharp and Softbank, at least; they didn't bother telling people) but both new and old suffer positively abysmal touch recognition and performance.

Sample size of one, of course, but buyer beware. I'd wait for feedback from the trenches before even considering a Sharp product in this category.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by jalanb »

SEMW wrote: post #67
SixSigma wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Emacs, Acme, vi All great monochrome editors. Plenty of exceptional programmers use mono. One wonders if it is a cause or an effect.

Huh? There's nothing inherently monochrome about emacs or vi/vim. Both support colour syntax highlighting, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of programmers using those editors weren't using it. Certainly everyone in my workplace who uses vim (including me) does. (Don't know about Acme).

> There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim

But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by Sanddancer »

technomancy wrote: post #38

It says it connects as a display over USB... I wonder if this requires specialized drivers or if there's a standard?

No standard for this use case, so it's going to need a driver of some sort or another. Also, be ready for it to be CPU hungry, as you're going to be without the benefit of any sort of graphics acceleration.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by 7952 »

I would love something like to work with Chromecast and display tabs from my browser. Being able to hang a tab up around the house or office would be endlessly useful. The problem with most devices that try to solve this problem is that they try and create a new app ecosystem when it is completely uneccessary to do so.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by simi_ »

hf wrote: post #48

A monitor like this would be the end-all-be-all for my scientific workflow woes. The paper du jour on the e-ink and the journal and ipython on what I call "the lightbulb" (read: TFT). I have already been fantasising about and doing a spot of research into building one on my own by using an Arduino (I wouldn't need as high a refresh rate as this little marvel) and one of PervasiveDisplays'[0]. I gave up convinced ther…

You sound like you might benefit from Flux: https://justgetflux.com/

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by minthd »

KaiserPro wrote: post #53
minthd wrote: post #50

In the past,the niche in the population who suffers headache/nausea/etc from lcd refresh rate would have loved this. But some lcd makers solved this, like viewsonic in[1], so this niche is gone. [1] http://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-VA2455sm-SuperClear-Flicker-...

Unless you have a rubbish backlight, I don't see how an LCD panel can flicker? (actually I can see why, turn of dynamic contrast, and crank the brightness up, turn off energy saving. That'll stop the PWN on the backlight) The refresh rate of a panel is not what it can display, the only real practical effect is on screen tearing. (I worked for a VFX company, trust me I've tested it.) Even really fast displays take 5 m…

I'm talking about the PWM, and if you need to use PWM at 100% , for some it would be much too bright.There are some options to correct it(contrast, or apps like flux), but they usually really hurt color reproduction.And sometimes even them don't lower brightness enough.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by spain »

vijucat wrote: post #21

Impressive refresh rate! I'd love to try using an IDE such as Eclipse on such a screen. I suppose IDEs can have an e-ink mode where instead of colors, they use multiple fonts, italics, bold fonts, and other decorators to highlight syntax.

They do have colored e-ink displays on the horizon too, but yeah that would be nice until those become mainstream.

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by lhl »

semperfaux wrote: post #72
lhl wrote: post #37

A few years ago I used to pine for an E-Ink (or later, a Mirasol) display so that I could have sunlight-visible portable computing, but sadly the iPad basically wiped that market away. While the standalone monitor is neat, I think the biggest use-case would still be for a portable/outdoor terminal. That being said, with MEMS-IGZO devices finally coming from Sharp/Qualcomm (Pixtronix) this year (they've been showing i…

While that Sharp tablet looks very interesting, I'd be wary of the fact that they also produce the AQUOS series. I'm currently using a Crystal and it is far and away the single worst touchscreen experience I've had (yes, the G1 did indeed boast more reliable touch performance). I had it replaced once thanks to the fact that the hardware was known to be defective (well, known to Sharp and Softbank, at least; they didn…

Hmm, I played around with one of those at Yodabashi the other day and it seemed fine. Did a quick search for some reviews [1] and none of them mention anything about the touchscreen being bad - seems like a standard 5-finger capacitive multitouch. I wonder if you just've just had bad luck. I searched for "bad" and "terrible" touchscreen and didn't find any results. If it was something widespread, it'd be all over the Android forums.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=sharp+aquos+crystal+review

Re: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

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Post by alexchamberlain »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #61
throwawaymsft wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And readability. And only using power when making updates. Using a max of 2.5W instead of 100W is a big deal. You can now power a monitor from your laptop or phone. Also, think about how things tend to work in the electronics industry. DVD players were $1000 in the 90s.

They dropped in price because they were being built and sold in huge volume; I don't really see that happening with this product. E-ink readers (and by extension screens) were very promising five years ago, but then the iPad and Android tablets came along and pretty much wiped that whole market out overnight, disregarding readability and power consumption because apparently that's not as strong a sales argument as pe…

Not convinced Kindle sales have been wiped out.
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