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42“ E-ink Whiteboard ”Quilla“ from Quick Logic

29 points by richardboegli 10y ago

czk 10y ago
An e-ink whiteboard sounds neat. The most important thing for me would be fast input response. The ability to just leave something up on the board and use minimal power to preserve the picture (as well as export it digitally!) is appealing. The e-ink keyboards always poked at my interest but but I've gotten in the habit of not looking at my keyboard and I'm not sure I'd go back to doing so unless learning a new language. Maybe an e-ink function bar or something would be of more interest to me. Off topic: I was wondering why this site took so long to load...(13.2MB PNG, 20MB of stuff in total).
- tshannon 10y ago
  Yeah I was looking for a video on their site and couldn't find one. I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast.
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  - askvictor 10y ago
    I've evaluated a lot of digital whiteboards for classroom use, and if they're not super responsive, teachers just don't just them. It's absolutely crucial.
  - linuxkerneldev 10y ago
    > I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast. There are loads on youtube, some as old as 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI
FullyFunctional 10y ago
Price? However, being locked into a proprietary solution is a non-starter, but give me full control of the hardware and I'd buy some.
- pedalpete 10y ago
  Can you suggest how this could be done with a non-proprietary solution at a reasonable cost? What is proprietary here? The login? The sharing? Is that what you're complaining about?
  - szhu 10y ago
    Those seem like reasonable things to make open or extensible. If either of those things stops working with future devices, you're stuck with just a regular $10k whiteboard. (Or I guess you can keep an ancient device around to act as a proxy.)
  - bewo001 10y ago
    An ordinary whiteboard and a good smartphone's camera for digitzing?
- Wernstrom 10y ago
  Looks to be in the $10,000 range, for one 42 inch unit.
glial 10y ago
This is cool, and I wish someone would make a 10" or 13" version that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
drewm1980 10y ago
I saw a progress bar and immediately navigated away.
- amiga-workbench 10y ago
  Yep, it hits 100% complete and sits like a lemon for another 5 seconds before displaying anything.
wbwbwgbuibuo 10y ago
pointless. use a blackboard & take a photo of it on your phone

29 points by richardboegli 10y ago

czk 10y ago

An e-ink whiteboard sounds neat. The most important thing for me would be fast input response. The ability to just leave something up on the board and use minimal power to preserve the picture (as well as export it digitally!) is appealing. The e-ink keyboards always poked at my interest but but I've gotten in the habit of not looking at my keyboard and I'm not sure I'd go back to doing so unless learning a new language. Maybe an e-ink function bar or something would be of more interest to me. Off topic: I was wondering why this site took so long to load...(13.2MB PNG, 20MB of stuff in total).

tshannon 10y ago
Yeah I was looking for a video on their site and couldn't find one. I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- askvictor 10y ago
  I've evaluated a lot of digital whiteboards for classroom use, and if they're not super responsive, teachers just don't just them. It's absolutely crucial.
- linuxkerneldev 10y ago
  > I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast. There are loads on youtube, some as old as 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI

FullyFunctional 10y ago

Price? However, being locked into a proprietary solution is a non-starter, but give me full control of the hardware and I'd buy some.

pedalpete 10y ago
Can you suggest how this could be done with a non-proprietary solution at a reasonable cost? What is proprietary here? The login? The sharing? Is that what you're complaining about?
- szhu 10y ago
  Those seem like reasonable things to make open or extensible. If either of those things stops working with future devices, you're stuck with just a regular $10k whiteboard. (Or I guess you can keep an ancient device around to act as a proxy.)
- bewo001 10y ago
  An ordinary whiteboard and a good smartphone's camera for digitzing?
Wernstrom 10y ago
Looks to be in the $10,000 range, for one 42 inch unit.

glial 10y ago

This is cool, and I wish someone would make a 10" or 13" version that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

drewm1980 10y ago

I saw a progress bar and immediately navigated away.

amiga-workbench 10y ago
Yep, it hits 100% complete and sits like a lemon for another 5 seconds before displaying anything.

wbwbwgbuibuo 10y ago

pointless. use a blackboard & take a photo of it on your phone