Please give me an external ePaper display so I can just use Spacemacs in a well-lit room!
[0] https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro
edit: "25, not "27
I was thinking, like, a couple hundred dollar Kindle the size of a big iPad I can plug into a laptop for text-editing out and about. Hell, for my purposes I'd love an integrated keyboard.
Basically a second, super-lightweight laptop form-factor I can just plug into my chonky Macbook Pro and set on top of it in high-light environments when all I need to do is edit text.
Honestly not a compelling business case now that I write it out, but I just wanna code under a tree lol
It is nice for some very specific use cases. (They're in the publishing/typesetting business. It's… idk, really depends on your usage patterns.)
Other than that, yeah, the technology just isn't there yet.
I can't replace my desktop monitor with eink because I occasionally play video games. I can't use a 2nd monitor because I live in a small apartment.
I can't replace my laptop screen with greyscale because I need syntax highlighting for programming.
Hmm, emacs on an epaper screen might be great if it had all the display update optimization and "slow modem mode" that Emacs had back in the TECO days. (The SUPDUP network protocol even implemented that at the client end and interacted with Emacs directly!)