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E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper

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43 pointskozmonaut9 comments

Very impressive, but I think running android on these devices make them look even more impractical than they really are. E ink displays have a very bad refresh rate, when you combine that to fancy smooth animations the result is a lagfest. We need to have redesigned interfaces for these type of device.

Speaking of refresh rate, at the end of the video you can see someone drawing on the screen and everything is rendered pretty quickly without having to redraw the entire screen, is that a different technology?

I don't think so. It's easy to "paint" over white because that's the base color of the medium, but "painting" over another color means you have to clear it first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw

Yeah. It'd be interesting to have something like this tech be used for a project like The Open Book (OSS e-book reader):

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Maybe The Open Book v2, or v3. :)

I want the reMarkable pad version of this..

Seriously.

Also, we're trying to push our users to go paperless as much as we can, and while the need for some printers is still present, if we could make some devices like the reMarkable being able to access our universal print queue and have people send their paper notes there (and retrieve it from the print queue on the reMarkable) prior to their meetings, it would really make the experience seamless to their workflow and eliminate another source.

Someone has a cups driver for Linux that sends files to the reMarkable directly.

I have no idea if it even works, but this might be useful: https://github.com/ofosos/scratch/tree/master/remarkable-cup...

This will be great for nautical charts, quick refresh is not needed and often used in strong sunlight.

How is it being used by wacom for a graphics tablet if the update rate is sluggish? In the video with a stylus it looked perfectly fine, but navigating around android it was really bad. Does the update rate vary based on what needs added to the picture?

Wow, this will be great to read comic books and graphic novels!

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