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Many of those may be actually getting close to expiry if not expired already - the technology is over 20 years old by now.

I remember doing a report in high school chemistry class, 75 years ago, on the promise of e-ink technology.

You talked about e-ink in high school in 1950?

That must have been a typo, sarcasm or trolling. Looking at the users other submissions, they seem to have parents [1], go to the gym [2] and use Tinder [3] which seems unlikely if they are ~90 years old.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38133254 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39370419 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35006052

It was an exaggeration. High school was decades ago, but it feels like a million years. We thought e-ink tech would be widespread within a handful of years. Little did we know.

I'd love to see the entire patent system abolished. Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

interesting, what kinds of things are being held back in the meantime? Or, just price/competition?