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My biggest dream is a big epaper or pixel qi screen to do development on. The bazillion nits is killing my eyes...

Your dreams might have come true, then, with the Dasung Paperlike[1], a 13-inch e-ink monitor. The first generation connected to the PC via USB and special display drivers, but the current generation uses HDMI like a normal monitor.

My girlfriend is quite happy with her second-generation Paperlike Pro. There is apparently now a third generation[2] with higher resolution.

There are some disadvantages (of e-ink in general). It's not fast – the mouse cursor feels laggy, but typing is OK. You might have to tweak various appearance settings to make things look better in black and white – they have software to help with this for Windows, but not for Mac. Lastly, it's not particularly cheap.

[1] http://www.dasungtech.com/

[2] http://dasungtech.com/english/detail/id/223

Thanks for the link! Based on your experience, would it be a good fit for hacking? How does a Emacs/Vi session comes across?

She uses it at work, so I can't check now, but I think it should be OK. It's mainly smooth-scrolling web pages and the mouse cursor that look laggy – things that move continuously pixel by pixel.

Dasung do mention programming as one use case and demonstrate it here: http://www.dasungtech.com/sta/en/type.gif

They say it's "nearly as fast as LCD". It has different modes to choose from, with different trade-offs between speed and image quality. And the new generation might be faster that the one I used.

Third generation kicks ass for terminal work. Wait for 4th gen and Non hardcore gaming will be doable

It sort of exists, if you can manage with some small screen (there is no 22 inch screens like that).

Here is a 13.3 inch e-reader which you can also setup as a secondary screen (HDMI input), and connect to any computer as an extra screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3oemOfPlk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCnPMKvXWas So you are getting both a fully-fledged e-reader and an extra screen.

An Android based e-reader no less, the form factor is wild and the price point is super high but damn, this is cool.

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