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42“ E-ink Whiteboard ”Quilla“ from Quick Logic

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29 pointsrichardboegli13 comments

An e-ink whiteboard sounds neat. The most important thing for me would be fast input response. The ability to just leave something up on the board and use minimal power to preserve the picture (as well as export it digitally!) is appealing.

The e-ink keyboards always poked at my interest but but I've gotten in the habit of not looking at my keyboard and I'm not sure I'd go back to doing so unless learning a new language. Maybe an e-ink function bar or something would be of more interest to me.

Off topic: I was wondering why this site took so long to load...(13.2MB PNG, 20MB of stuff in total).

Yeah I was looking for a video on their site and couldn't find one. I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast.

I've evaluated a lot of digital whiteboards for classroom use, and if they're not super responsive, teachers just don't just them. It's absolutely crucial.

> I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast.

There are loads on youtube, some as old as 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI

I saw a progress bar and immediately navigated away.

Yep, it hits 100% complete and sits like a lemon for another 5 seconds before displaying anything.

Price? However, being locked into a proprietary solution is a non-starter, but give me full control of the hardware and I'd buy some.

Can you suggest how this could be done with a non-proprietary solution at a reasonable cost?

What is proprietary here? The login? The sharing? Is that what you're complaining about?

Those seem like reasonable things to make open or extensible.

If either of those things stops working with future devices, you're stuck with just a regular $10k whiteboard. (Or I guess you can keep an ancient device around to act as a proxy.)

An ordinary whiteboard and a good smartphone's camera for digitzing?

Looks to be in the $10,000 range, for one 42 inch unit.

This is cool, and I wish someone would make a 10" or 13" version that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

pointless. use a blackboard & take a photo of it on your phone

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