Where is the kindle style monitor (no backlight)?
Staring at an LED panel all day for decades isn’t great. I’d love to see improvements to non-backlit monitor tech but it seems the demand for that is low, and somehow lower than the demand for a bendable monitor.
I've actually been using it to read with my ten-year-old. We take turns, alternating chapters. "Snuggling up on the couch with a child and an e-reader" does not have the same romantic ring, but the stories are just as engaging and I think the e-reader with its push-button page-flip is actually better for smaller, less-dextrous hands.
That is true. I recharge my E-ink reader multiple times … per year.
- portability
- dictionary & wikipedia lookup
- highlights -> readwise*
- continuity (phone, kindle, audiobook via WhisperSync), I can listen while driving, continue reading when home
- preview the next book in a series and/or buy it on the spot and keep reading
In contrast, paper books are heavy and fragile, and I've always resisted annotating / highlighting physicap books bc its permament and feels like defacement / vandalism.
TLDR, I love my personal library, my house is full of bookshelves, but my reading preferences have evolved, and I get absurdly high value from my Oasis.
I used to have incredibly sore eyes from late-night sessions, and now that problem is completely gone. Been using it for years and will never go back.
It does take a little while to get used to at first, but it quickly becomes natural.
Windows also has a built-in tool to do the same thing, but it's not as robust/customizable iirc.
Liquid crystal displays can actually adapt to almost any circumstance. It's the manufacturer's fault that they force it into "store-bright" and won't let you change.
"From what I know". Could you clarify? This is first hand knowledge based on industry experience?
Could you please cite which specific patent you're referring to and what you mean by "e-ink tech" and "has been very feasible"? I'm assuming you actually have detailed knowledge of the display technology. Could you also please cite some evidence for the "notoriously slow to reach any licensing deals"? I'm assuming you actually have detailed knowledge of these licensing deals you're referring to. Hopefully your citation will be something other than a HN post by a throwaway account and blogs that cite that specific HN post and other HN posts that infinite loop circle back on those blog posts. Hopefully you'll give the rest of us first hand evidence and a reply based on actual experience that you personally have from years working in the electrophoretic display industry where you were held back under E-Ink's titanium and carbon coated jack boot and patent-waterboarded with high viscosity electrophoretic solvent? :-D That's the evidence the rest of us have been eagerly seeking to see and hear. I look forward with bated breath. Thank you.
I ask this, perhaps a little comically disingenously since I work in the display industry (not for E Ink) and I've asked the exact same question so many times on HN and have never gotten even a remotely satisfying answer which makes me think your extremely confident claim in your post, like the many before it are just Dunning Kruger in effect. But I'll still keep a sliver of a slightly open mind so that I can be convinced. Otherwise, I would recommend everyone treat your type of comment as equivalent to someone in the farming industry alleging that a good solid operating system has been very feasible but IBM is holding back the software industry with their patents and is notoriously slow to reach any licensing deals.
You don't get to make black over a white surface in daylight.
And yes, it is not going to be as good as a TV outside in broad daylight. But they are almost definitely good enough to use inside with the curtains open. And if the light isn’t directly in your eyes like a monitor, do you even have to code in dark mode anymore?
1. https://cybershack.com.au/cybershack/nebula-cosmos-laser-4k-...
Dark screens help but until we can project on something that’s essentially black they won’t be great for daytime viewing.
Unless/until some material comes along that is tuned somehow to only reflect light that comes from the projector, they'll have to remain limited to dark rooms.
When 100" micro-LED panels come out, the projector is going away for good.
Basically, any system that requires your eyes to focus on a physical screen that isn't the same distance as virtual objects will piss off your brain, because it knows something is going on, and hates being tricked without consent. Some people I think can ignore this effect to some extent, others cannot. It also strains your eyes more than focusing on an actual 2D screen so increases eye fatigue compared.
Hopefully never. People who don't wear glasses don't need something on their face to watch TV, people who do need glasses don't need to worry about AR googles meaning they have to choose between seeing a screen clearly or everything else and nobody has to worry about the AR goggle company watching and logging everything you see and plastering everything in your line of sight with ads.
I don't think physical screens are going anywhere anytime soon. I wouldn't mind having every wall in my home capable of being a screen though. Screen-as-wallpaper would be very nice since you could create smaller virtual screens on any wall wherever you needed one and it would mean you could change your wallpaper/color on a whim.
If you haven't seen it, there's a very well done review at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQms-iHX9RQ
$1800 for a 25" monochrome E-ink monitor. The resolution is 3200 x 1800, but remember to consider that resolution in the context of E-ink rather than LCD.