how far are we from magazine quality look and feel using eInk?
like there is a scene from an old 80s sci-fi movie dude whips out a game magazine and the screenshot of games are fully animated videos...
ive been waiting 30 years now for this tech
There seems to be a direct tradeoff between contrast/image-brilliance and latency/frames-per-second. Many monitors can be switched along that spectrum, but the current tech doesn't seem to be able to deliver both simultaneously at a reasonable price.
You have to fight with the settings to just get something that is vaguely usable, and set up the OS with custom colors and an accessible theme. But even then it’s so much more straining to use than a normal monitor, because of the reflections and shit contrast.
I think you could probably get something more useful by building a 28“ wall paper of game boy colors.
Worst purchase ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration#Variable...
Flexible e-ink displays
Color eink displays
High-ish refresh rate eink displays
The problem is AFAICT there's no device that covers all 3. Color displays have pretty big tradeoffs in terms of resolution/contrast/latency. However they're still way ahead of where they were 5-10 years ago.
The reason e-inks are so expensive and progressing so slowly is that it's a niche product which doesn't drive much R&D spending (compared to LCDs, which sell billions per quarter and you're reading this comment on).
Will you be working on such a product? :-D
and I'm surprised I keep reading such claims on HN and everytime anyone ask which patent you're referring to, you get no concrete answer. It is like saying "microsoft holds lots of patents on operating systems" and that's why operating systems are so terrible and everyone is still using windows.