Modos Paper Monitor Typing Demo
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as evidence that open e-ink controllers can reach usable latency for real computer use.
What it is
A short demo of typing on the Modos Paper Monitor, an open e-ink monitor, using 4-level grayscale to show low latency.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends lhl · 2022-07 · on “Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default”
The mainboards are swappable at $400-1000 which means that if you like the chassis, your next upgrade would be considerably cheaper (and because the CAD files are available, you can easily buy or 3D print a case to use the old mainboard as a NUC). Although personally, the Framework doesn't seem so outside the pricing for the laptops I've been comparing it to anyway, tbt (in my case: ultrabooks that are Linux friendly with decent displays and that can get to 64GB of RAM) - the Slimbook Executive 14, Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen2, Star Labs Starbook 14, are all around the same ballpark price. The HP Dev One is a bit cheaper, but on the flip side, the HP Elitebook 845 Gen9 is double the price. As for th
Cites Hamcha · 2023-10 · on “Eye comfort a priority for all-in-one desktop PC with color E Ink display”
I'm skeptical not of the claims but of the usability long-term, tablets like the BOOX Tab Ultra C look great but they commit to violating the GPL rather than giving users a chance to mess with the internals. I've been loosely following the works of Wenting Zhang and their modos.tech which have a fully open hardware controller that can run at 60FPS[1] with 1bit BW and still seem pretty decent latency-wise with grayscale on[2]. Sadly most of their public activity nowadays seem to be on building a DIY MILC camera so don't know if we're ever going to see a full version of this. 1. [LINK] 2. [this video]
Cites schaefer · 2024-05 · on “Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply”
Have you seen this video [1] - which appears to show just that. A Modos prototype in a framework 13 shell. [1]: [this video]