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It's worth noting this person (Wenting Zhang aka zephray) is the same one that's also worked on the eink drivers for https://www.modos.tech/ - https://twitter.com/zephray_wenting/status/1534641299705499648?lang=en See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31674373

Very cool. Been hoping for something like this. Also check out https://www.modos.tech/

This may be interesting for you: https://www.modos.tech/ I just heard about them recently and am curious how the final result will look like.

They do have concept design renders in a follow-up blog post, “Designing the Modos Paper Monitor”: https://www.modos.tech/blog/designing-modos-paper-monitor

I'd probably buy one, mostly because there is no other e-ink laptop available yet. Regarding battery life, since you've got LTE on board, you'd be better off by offloading the processing to a remote server and connecting via ssh, vnc etc. imo. See also similar art: http://www.paperterm.org/notes.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432921 and https://www.modos.tech

Already widely-available e-ink devices have been capable of far better than 1 Hz refresh for years. The idea that this isn't possible has entered into the Land of HN Tropes That Will Not Die. I use an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, now three years old, with locally-installed Termux (Linux environment for Android) and remote SSH fairly frequently. It can run highly-interactive text apps, with slight ghosting, and could probably handle an X11 display as well though I've not tried that. Even at high-quality display, B&W e-ink offers 2--4 Hz refresh, and can offer ~16 Hz or better in "X-Mode" display. I won't pretend that's great video quality, but it is possible to view animations or videos using it. For a now-several-years-old demo of what e-ink device capabilities are, with the fastest saved for last, see: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KdrMjnYAap4> There are higher-refresh displays as well. This one advertises 60 Hz refresh and colour (it's not clear whether colour can drive at 60 Hz). <https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/new-open-source-high-resolution-… <https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor-pre-launch-on-crowd-su… Video demo: <https://yewtu.be/embed/pXn-bAwzNv4> It's true that some colour displays currently run slower. There's also an "e-paper" technology, based on LCD, which offers far higher refresh and AFAIU no ghosting. (I've been using an e-ink tablet for the past 3+ years, and…

Fascinating, this led to this projects which is pretty interesting. https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor Seems like a very exciting effort and product but I'm not sure if it's still active.

The team at Modos https://www.modos.tech/blog/get-involved-with-modos is building an open source Eink laptop