If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica

I bought a trmnl and it's pricey but works pretty good. I've mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.

There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be 'offline' in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven't put the time aside.

Or to hang on a home server rack displaying dashboards.

Feel like we've been waiting a long time for it :(

There's this range of Philips signage displays in up to 32" (~$1800 USD): https://www.ppds.com/display-solutions/digital-signage/philips-tableaux

They even run Android, so should be able to install the Home Assistant app natively. Being intended as a signage solution, there's also PoE (although it is 45W 802.3bt class5), and even room for four 18650 batteries.

Notably though, they use the newer E-Ink "Spectra" (16 bit, 65,536 colour) panel which offers its full 2560x1600 resolution in both greyscale and colour, not the "Kaleido" one (12 bit, 4096 colour) of this Boox monitor that only has half of its 3200x1800 resolution in colour (Boox recommend using 1400x1050).

I don't know which of the two panels offers better refresh rates, however.

That... would actually be pretty dope

I can see how this would be very attractive to a writer.

Not necessarily just corporations, but certainly text-based workflows. I can see this being great if your day job is writing code, working on spreadsheets, editing documents, etc. In those use cases, framerate hardly matters. Would be great for reducing eye strain.

Not sure yet, we're still waiting for the first frame to finish.

I think it says 23Hz or something

If you're coding with them you can already try small ones, unless you need bigger than A4 size for each it isn't insanely expensive.

Thanks, that was actually a pretty good look at them.

I do think that they did raise one point that I wouldn't have thought of. The color eInk doesn't have great resolution, but they were viewing old comics printed using halftoning (what the guy in the video was calling "cheap dot patterns"). Comics at the time were, had to be, designed to deal with being printed that way, and that results in images that could deal with really low color resolution. So specifically for viewing them, the color eInk display was a pretty good match for the content.

Problem is, I just can't see how many people would buy a monitor just to view old-style comics.

I think that eInk is a good match for a portable e-reader that you potentially take outside, where it's already available in the role. Outside of that...

I own this. It is horrible. If the specs were real it would be great, but the specs are not real. It is a 3k black and white monitor with a fixed color filter over it. That means you need 3x3 pixels to resemble a color.

I consider it a scam from Dasung.

Boox on the other hand made a sane black and white display. Much better. I own a Max 2 Pro. Sadly they fail to understand that when you report a display as 20px smaller than it really is over an HDMI port and then rescale the image of the computer display on that, that it becomes really uncrisp. Their suggestion is to use the display with 200% scaling (so you don't notice as much I suppose).

Epaper is really promising and nice. However both of these companies should either get some real competition or lawsuits.

Please note that even at 30hz eink displays still have hundreds of milliseconds of latency

Its not meant for gaming. People who display a lot of text (eg. coders) could use less strain in their eyes if they're doing it for a long time. Definitely not at that price though

Pretty sure it's good for anything that requires text. I've already seen several people talk about it's use in coding, which makes sense since staring at a conventional LCD for hours on end can be a real eyestrain sometimes.