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I would love to have something like this in front of every meeting room at work displaying the occupancy of the current day.

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https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-...

Google also did something like this but I can't find that write up.

You seem to know the market a bit.

Can I buy an e-ink device that I can hang on the wall or put on the table and that will display today's appointments from my calendar for me?

You can do this with a rooted Kindle: https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-infor...

But this doesn't automatically update itself, no?

Found it, the Google project was called Radish there was a write-up about it in 2008

https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish

There are many many products that do this. They're all crazy expensive though and they generally use LCD tablets.

The ones we've had at the last two companies I've worked at were battery powered and lasted for a day - somebody has to go around and swap them over once per day.

I agree an e-ink solution would be much better but then these companies would have to do their own hardware since nobody sells e-ink tablets with a proper OS and they're way too niche to do that.

Onyx Boox series run Android (some old, some new), and go up to 13” in size.

Herman Roebbers talked about this [1] at a conference earlier this year, together with the fact that the displays and what drives them have to be interconnected and low power.

[1] https://ulpc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Herman-Roebbers.p...

Crestron has a lineup that does this. You can make on the spot reservations without having to meddle with Outlook.

https://www.crestron.com/en-US/Products/Control-Surfaces/Tou...

Visionect is a company that will sell you exactly such a system: https://getjoan.com/products/

We do this with old kindle fires. Works OK

Aren't all of those non-e-ink?

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