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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
- car 3y agoI made a cheap version with a 6" Inkplate display. Harder to read, but still neat. https://imgur.com/a/R5E1ny5 https://imgur.com/a/R5E1ny5 https://soldered.com https://soldered.com
- ivan-tolmanov 3y ago[dead]
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- steakscience 3y agoI feel like these gigantic and expensive screens are niche enough that the supplier doesn't need to slap their logo on the front. Ruins the aesthetic.
- pathikrit 3y agoHere's my version: https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall/ https://github.com/pathikrit/newswall/
- alexandernl 3y agoI'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your wall. The screen isn't cheap ($2500) because it's a huge 32" e-ink display. The beautiful glass screen is connected to wifi and we made it easy to choose your favorite newspaper frontpages to put on display. It's a bit like an ever changing artwork.
- Tepix 3y agoThat's pricey. Perhaps using a normal 4k monitor is a better option? It could even display video. You could couple it with a motion sensor to turn it off and save power when noone is around.
- sytheveenje 3y agoNo. That would become another screen in your house. I think the power of this concept is it begin e-ink.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoThat sounds like a very different product from what they're offering here. Eink feels close to paper, regular LCD's or OLED's do not.
- pipo234 3y agoThere is probably some break even point, as a typical 4k monitor draws considerably more power.
- ZiiS 3y agoIf you only update the paper once a day with a new newspaper you can probably run a OLED for about 1 second per day on the same power budget.
- shultays 3y agoSounds like an interesting project, how/where does it fetch the data from?
- martinclayton 3y agoEg. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/07/07/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/07/07/nytfrontpage/scan...
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- Tepix 3y agoI can't help but notice you are using “ (U+201C : LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK {double turned comma quotation mark}) instead of ″ (U+2033 : DOUBLE PRIME {seconds, inches}) in the headline.
- alexandernl 3y agoI apologize for the grave mistake.
- zauguin 3y agoIt's really more an acute mistake.
- alexandernl 3y agoI apologize for the acute mistake.
- harperlee 3y agoJust in case some people don’t get the joke: https://blog.duolingo.com/french-accent-marks-pronunciation/ https://blog.duolingo.com/french-accent-marks-pronunciation/
- mikkelam 3y agoI love hackernews
- JadeNB 3y agoI didn't know there was a Unicode code point for that! I'd always thought one should just use straight quotes for inches. Thanks!
- avgcorrection 3y agoStraight quotes are acceptable too: https://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html https://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html
- sytheveenje 3y agoI like this idea very much. I saw this concept in real life during a podcast event in "De Rode Hoed" in Amsterdam. I was amazed by the quality of the screen. It's a little expensive, but I'm sure there is a market for this.
- dmos62 3y agoLooks great. How do you get the print version of your newspaper of choice?
- alexandernl 3y agoMost newspapers publish a PDF of their most recent front page. We make it easy to find those in the companion app.
- kanarian 3y ago[dead]
- yakcyll 3y agoThat display looks great actually, I've been looking for something similar to build a home dashboard. It is unfortunate that it does not have a touch screen; are there large e-ink screens (>15") that do? Alternatively, can Visionect displays be reprogrammed?
- austinbv 3y agoWould this work with magic mirror? https://magicmirror.builders/ https://magicmirror.builders/ If so I will order right away
- zyberzero 3y agoNice looking screen! Is there a way to run it without the subscription though? Or any alternative? The 32" was a bit too pricey for me, but the 13" was more wallet-friendly (899 EUR excl VAT)
- swores 3y agoI'd love a 32" eink display for my wall, but even if the price halved that €60/yr subscription would put me off - hell, even a €6/yr would put me off since at the price of the screen (even if it were half the current price) I'd care more about not being stuck trusting a company keeps offering the subscription for it to work than about the annual cost itself.
- donkeyd 3y agoInteresting, another project by Alexander Klöpping (coincidentally also OP). I guess this guy is the definition of serial entrepreneur. He's founded (and sold) Blendle, which is kinda related to this product, but before that he'd already started tons of companies. He's somewhat famous in the Netherlands as he's often invited to explain the newest tech stuff on TV.
- sho_hn 3y agoI built a smaller, battery-powered version of this idea with Rust and ChatGPT: https://imgur.io/a/NoTr8XX https://imgur.io/a/NoTr8XX / https://hackaday.io/project/190478-hyepaper https://hackaday.io/project/190478-hyepaper
- emptyspaces 3y agoIt’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I have an old idea of something similar and maybe I’ll use your project as inspiration
- 93po 3y agoI came across this a while back wanting to make my own - thanks for this! I wound up deciding to just get an InkPlate because I also wanted something to take off the wall and review
- ionwake 3y agoThank you this is great, do you have the code in a repo? Maybe I need a new project
- yunusabd 3y agoBoldly expanding the definition of "art" ;) Reminds me of the eink calendar concept that has been bouncing around the web for some years [1]. There's also this project [2] based on the same concept. It seems to me though that these kinds of projects are always held back by the exorbitant costs of decently sized eink displays. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDkFgOHZ5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDkFgOHZ5I [2] https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal
- ranting-moth 3y agoThe definition of art has long ago been eroded into nothing. Put an empty table in the corner and call yourself an artist is perfectly valid today.
- fhsm 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
- konschubert 3y agoYea, I sell a ready-to-use an eink calendar and the display is definitely the main cost driver. It’s about half of my BOM. That’s also why, admittedly, my calendar has a much smaller display than this newspaper. (It’s this: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...)
- yunusabd 3y agoThat's really nice, I think HN would love this if it was easy to hack and run custom software
- konschubert 3y agoYou can point it to any url that serves an image of the right resolution. This way, you can render your own content.
- prmph 3y agoCouldn't one use an old iPad for something similar? I have this idea for some time: a simple SaaS where you create widgets (News headlines, Weather, Stocks, FX rates, Clocks, etc) in your account, then load a special page optimized for viewing on tablets from a few meters away, which is updated periodically. Then you can find another cool use for old iPads by pointing them to this page, and mounting them on the wall.
- hawski 3y agoYou kinda can, but there are no 32" iPads and none will look like E-Ink. The closest I think you could go for is to have a monitor with precise brightness control and measure the wall brightness and adjust the monitor brightness to fit. Something like this was posted once and I'm sure it was done by more people, but here is an example: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
- criddell 3y agoIt really wouldn’t be similar at all. What you are describing is closer to Panic’s old Status Board.
- ilaksh 3y agoThe point of e-ink displays is that they only use power when changing what's displayed or refreshing, so they can stay on the wall for several months on just a small battery. And they look more like paper.
- mrklol 3y agoMaybe something like a kindle? But a custom firmware on it and … maybe it works. No clue.
- squishy47 3y agolove the ultra modern look combined with the nostalgia of a monochrome newpaper. this makes me look forward to cheaper large format e-ink displays used in society. side note - I could totally see this in some cyber-dystopian-future film set.
- ilyt 3y agoAh, yes, propaganda on my wall, so much "art". But I wouldn't mind big reasonably priced piece of e-ink on the wall that I can put stuff relevant to me on.
- Someone 3y agoVery nice. Apart from the price, there’s “The device is equipped with […] a cloud-based content management system”. Does that mean this device can completely stop working on the whims of a third party?
- gmzamz 3y agoThey offer a docker you can run locally as well.
- dmos62 3y agoWhat have you learned about einks when working on this?
- bobse 3y ago>One month of free cloud license is included with every device purchased. What is this crap?
- changxin 3y agoNice project! is it possible to display HN frontpage, and update frequently?
- chillbill 3y agoThe screen is so expensive it destroys any idea of indie use of this. You'll only see it at the offices of companies that want to pretend they're indie and hackery.
- duckqlz 3y agoWhat an amazing project. I will be copying or becoming a customer in the coming weeks. Lots of comments about the high price, I do wish large e-ink displays would come down in price the but for ~$3k this will look good on my office wall , how could I resist. It’s art it is not just tech.
- p10jkle 3y agohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3SYn_SXIAYAIlI?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3SYn_SXIAYAIlI?format=jpg&name=... I actually replicated this myself, with one extra feature; I got the screen framed . The 'trick' is that there's no glass section of the frame, the wood just boxes the screen and hides the fact that the bezel is not all the same width. This only cost another £100 at a framer, and I really recommend it.
- appleflaxen 3y agoCool project! I worry though, because IMO newspapers aren't dead because of the medium; they are dead because journalism itself is dying.
- dobin 3y agoLooks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted. Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.
- cfn 3y agoWasn't Bill Gates who patented something like this idea many years ago?
- michelb 3y agoSort of: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-6670934-B1 https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-6670934-...
- JKCalhoun 3y agoWas thinking about something like that recently — recalling maybe some kind of art piece from a decade or two back? 1) Place a camera + display somewhere in an urban area of the world so that random pedestrians can come and watch the display, will be on camera. 2) Place any number of these identical setups in other areas of the world. 3) Arbitrarily feed the camera from one to the display of another (shuffle every 24 hours?). You get people seeing/reacting to others seeing/reacting ... possibly to them, possibly to others who are seeing/reacting to....
- iamflimflam1 3y agoI do love E-Paper displays, but the price just makes it unrealistic for most projects unless you have a tiny screen.
- formvoltron 3y agoexcept that nobody reads the newspaper any more.
- criddell 3y agoAnd that’s why as a piece of active art work, this is pretty compelling. If you saw newspapers everywhere, why would you want one on the wall?
- Brosper 3y agoI hope there is more cool eink projects.
- rrustema 3y ago[dead]
- hau 3y agoThis screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a product - company doesn't exist anymore - CMS isn't compatible with your device anymore
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- p10jkle 3y agoNo, this isn't true. I run the Visionect software suite (https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/index.html https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/index.html) on a Raspberry pi and the screen talks to it over localhost. No outbound connectivity or subscription is needed.
- harper 3y agoI also run visionect locally to power a couple of displays around the house. When I recently went to go buy a few more - it was clear that they require a subscription. I emailed them and they confirmed that they now require a subscription. It’s a bummer because I don’t think there are as good quality displays to replace visionect with, but the subscription was far too much.
- eli 3y agoIt’s not clear that is still supported (or indeed legally licensed) or that it will be in the future.
- hau 3y agoThank you. I think their product page is pushing cloud subscription too hard, they call subscription the same way they call display itself, and subscription is paid and cloud based. Product page says: "Place & Play devices work on a subscription basis. Select a plan here.", and "A license is needed for every device." while describing software suite. I'm still confused about the way it presented, but documentation and suite itself look quite decent.
- quickthrower2 3y agoPrevious discussion (as linked to in the article) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726
- ilaksh 3y agoThis one is not very big but is only $200 something: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804712947613.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804712947613.html
- aembleton 3y agoAnd it supports red. So you get, black, white and red pixels.
- zimpenfish 3y agoI think I'd probably go for this one[1] - smaller (12.5" vs 10.3") but just over double the pixels (1872x1404 vs 1304x894) and 16 grayscales for about the same price. [1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004037729951.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004037729951.html
- mechhacker 3y agoWould be interesting to me to have something like this, but in landscape mode, and with slowly changing blueprints of aircraft, rockets, ships, cars... Example: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Portals/14/EasyGalleryImages/42/266/CrossSection.jpg https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Portals/14/EasyGalleryImage...
- LittleNemoInS 3y agoSomething like the Samsung Frame ? https://www.samsung.com/us/tvs/the-frame/highlights/ https://www.samsung.com/us/tvs/the-frame/highlights/
- JKCalhoun 3y agoThat would be cool. And simple to do in Python with a small display. There are a number of projects on GitHub that can be easily modified to pull this off.
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- Luctct 3y agoGreat stuff. Who needs beautiful art when you can instead adorn you wall with an endless string of shameless propaganda and false narratives?
- masalah 3y agoCan this screen show ads instead? I feel we're not getting enough of them.
- Timja 3y agoI would love a battery powered 32" E Ink screen that does nothing on its own, but lets me send it images to display. But for that I guess I would have to give that thing access to my wifi? I wouldn't want that. Any ideas if such a product exists and how one could use it shielded from the internet?
- cydmax 3y agoA possible DIY way is to use a e-ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi and build a script to display content stored on a usb-stick connected to the USB-Port of the Raspi.
- gumballindie 3y agoIf i had an eink display for writing code i would be so happy.
- Tepix 3y agoI've tried it and it sucked. Scrolling will require a full refresh and it takes too long.
- molly0 3y agoWould fit nicely in a hotel lobby.
- brentcetinich 3y agoI have the same thing, gitlab job scheduled every 12 hours refreshes it using the visionect docker image, I have google calendar at the bottom, and currency exchange over the top left, localized weather on the right, countdowns to holidays, F1 schedules ect... I decreased the heartbeat timer and battery lasts about 2 months. I can't find an asian or european news paper that gives a good high res front page like the NYT. Waking up to read the US centric world view of the NYT gets old and the headlines are not so entertaining anymore without trump. Let me know if you find a more global news source that has a good high res reliable front page dump without advertisements. There has only been one time where NYT had on the front page over ~2 years and that was some fake diamond company took out the entire front page.
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- MagicMoonlight 3y agoIf it didn’t cost as much as a car I’d be interested in that
- shrx 3y agoThis looks neat at a first glance but who actually wants to read the newspaper standing up facing a wall? I personally prefer to do it sitting down in a comfortable sofa or outside on a park bench.
- asimpletune 3y agoDiscovered the PDF of the NYT front page through this project.
- asimpletune 3y agoReading the front page now shows me how good that kind of interface is. I can scan with my eyes for what's interesting to me, and then I can immediately start reading. Something about the haphazard grid too makes the process of searching a lot easier and more satisfying. When I compare it to their digital front page there's really no comparison. For the scan, the size of each item on the grid naturally draws your eyes to what are the most important things of the day. The text preview of the articles are a lot bigger. Just in general the actual newspaper uses the available space a lot better. It's huge! With that space they can do so much more. I love how the "snippets" aren't blurbs, it's simply just the actual article, along with an index to keep reading. That lets me read a little bit of all the important stuff before theoretically continuing. The digital front page has huge empty margins on my monitor. There's much less indication to what is important from an editorial standpoint, because everything is the same size. I guess stuff at the top is supposed to be the most important, but it really seems to be what is just happening "live", so most recent. Seeing them side by side really makes me think that maybe the problem with news isn't that people don't want to pay for it, but that the product just isn't there yet. It's honestly garbage in comparison to the analog newspaper. I would love for something digital in the same format as their actual news paper if there were hyperlinks, and it was no more than $5/mo.
- herunan 3y agoWould love it for some greyscale art or comic strips that update daily!
- JKCalhoun 3y agoYou could build your own and write the code in Python. Have it display a random XKCD every day....
- billy_bitchtits 3y agoDoes anyone make a decent e-ink monitor yet?
- pringularity 3y agoI've been following the last 3 or 4 posts of people that have created these over the last few years, and I'm insanely jealous...so cool. I do agree with others that I already have too much news in my life and I don't think I'd really get real utility from this (which is important at a $2K+ price point). One thing that could be a really cool alternative is a version that displays a random Wikipedia article, or whatever Wikipedia article is "Today's Featured Article". Put that in front of your toilet, and it could be an evergreen source of entertainment.
- hnarn 3y ago€2,783 ($3,025) for this might seem like a lot, until you realize that the price of the 31.2" screen[1] alone is at least $1,200 + $200 shipping within the US. Wow. [1]: https://buy-lcd.com/products/largest-312-inch-e-ink-big-screen-menu-advertising-display-large-e-ink-display-gdep312tt2-d https://buy-lcd.com/products/largest-312-inch-e-ink-big-scre...
- MissTake 3y agoIt is a lot. Period. I could pay for this and notice very little difference in my financial life. But I balk heavily at the $3k price tag and ask myself “what do I _really_ get out of this?” The answer is “nothing of value except a reminder of how much I spent on something of very little life value.
- maxbbraun 3y agohttps://nytimes.ink https://nytimes.ink
- sdfghswe 3y agoAesthetically I think it looks gorgeous. But otherwise, if there's one thing I don't want more of in my life is "news".
- graiz 3y agoI published this article about how I made my own version of this using docker and some open source code to get the same effect. https://gregraiz.com/posts/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/ https://gregraiz.com/posts/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/
- gataca 3y agoYes! I remember your post here on HN about this project, super well done.
- skrebbel 3y agoI love the website design. Took us a century or so but long form copywriting for selling products really is back, isn’t it!
- repple 3y agoI feel like this DIY project needs its own DIY to build a cheaper 32” e-ink screen. Sarcasm aside, thanks for sharing! The largest display I’ve seen has been 11” until now.
- sktrdie 3y agoSeriously? $2500 when you can get a cheap LCD for 50 bucks?
- kayodelycaon 3y agoAs someone reminded me on a very downvoted comment on another post, you're missing the point. :) It's about presentation or artistic value, not the contents of the image. You can use an LCD panel to get a similar effect, but you'd need a reflective or transreflective display. Those aren't cheap either.
- closetkantian 3y agoReminds me of the glass cases containing the sports section that bars occasionally put above urinals. Maybe that could be a good use case for a very fancy bar somewhere.
- intpx 3y agoIt’s been 16 years since the Kindle was released and I am super bummed that e-ink/e-paper is still so friggin expensive and esoteric.
- 93po 3y agoScreens up to about 11 inches are decently affordable when you buy the bare hardware and attach it to an arduino or whatever of your choice
- Julesman 3y ago"News"
- no_wizard 3y agoThis is pretty awesome! On an unrelated note, we been seeing the promise of high fidelity color E-Ink displays for years. Anyone know what the hold up is on that? I'd love to see something like this that can actually display color
- janitor61 3y agoHow long do we need to wait until whatever patent encumberance that's keeping e-ink displays at these ridiculous prices expires and we can start to see affordable e-ink displays?
- Qwertious 3y agoThe price isn't caused by patent encumbrance, but by lack of demand for 32" e-ink monitors. They're hand-fused from 4 16" panes because there's not enough throughput to make it worth automating the process.
- foobarian 3y agoDo e-ink screens require periodic refresh to keep the image? I was wondering if it's possible to load an image and remove power.
- macintosh-hd 3y agoNope. I’ve had a tiny one connected to a raspberry pi that is still displaying an image over a year after I unplugged it.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoNo. I have a hacked kindle that's been sitting in a drawer for years. The custom image it's displaying looks the same as when I set it.
- croes 3y agoAnd suddenly the Apple Vision Pro doesn't look expensive at all.
- mholm 3y agoHmm, I wonder how much of this could be recreated with a Remarkable 2 or equivalent tablet. Build a nice decorative enclosure with the charging port embedded in the frame, it has wifi out of the box, and you can change the screensaver with scp when it's awake. Perhaps just set a cron job to grab the latest image every 24 hours from a designated url? Obviously much smaller, but you get a tablet out of the deal too, at 10-15% of the cost.
- steren 3y agoThe price tag is definitely higher than expected. Also, I would need strong guarantee in Long Term Support and reading that it uses a proprietary backend doesn't seem to go in that direction.
- slily 3y agoIf it could navigate the rest of the pages of the newspaper and was guaranteed to last at least 10+ years or had a long-term warranty provided by an established company, then I would consider buying this product as an alternative to traditional wall art.
- gcanyon 3y agoAre (large) e-ink displays expensive because of lack of scale in manufacturing? Or is there something inherently expensive about them? This display is literally almost ten times the cost of a generic 4K monitor, which has color, a higher resolution, and a 60 hertz refresh rate. The only advantage here is the reflective display and the ultra-low power consumption. I'm not saying that there aren't use cases where those could be critical/decisive, but given the cost differential it seems like the decision between the two is effectively automatic: the products don't compete, in the same way an SUV doesn't compete with a Cessna: if you need to fly, you buy the plane; otherwise the car is a no-brainer. I ask because I would love to have a second monitor like this display: easy on the eyes, distraction-free, etc. But at this cost it's a ridiculous non-starter for that purpose.
- ptman 3y agoI wonder what these cost? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/652670170980558713/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/652670170980558713/
- eli 3y agoI chatted with the guy from Visionect about this once and he said that it was basically all about scale. There is massive demand for the panels that go in those generic LED monitors and many huge factories dedicated to making them. The eink display looks gorgeous, by the way. But it's not a computer monitor and doesn't claim to be.
- fmajid 3y agoYou'd think there would be a large market for signage, and the process for manufacturing electrophoretic e-ink screens isn't that different from web printing (rotary presses), which is both mature and scalable (in size).
- dirtyid 3y agoI think eink does not perfrom well in freezing temperatures which removes a lot of large format addressable signage market. Otherwise I'd expect economics to drive cheaper large format eink screens
- ildon 3y agoI love the concept and I'd be willing to pay for the high price no questions asked if the device included all the backend needed to display images. Given the high price I'd expect this to be self sufficient. I truly hope a soon to come interaction of the product will include such a feature, so that setting the target URL by connecting to the device (via localhost or similar) will make this work. My best scenario would be: - plug it the first time, a new wifi network is made available - connect to the wifi and visit the locally hosted config page, which includes the wifi network to connect to and the URL to fetch - the screen restarts and connects to the wifi and, if internet works, fetches the URL - at any time, the screen can be configured if connected to the same wifi network (might require an app) - a physical button resets the screen to the factory config
- GenericDev 3y agoSame. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of ownership with the device.
- GenericDev 3y agoI would love to buy this so I can put up classic newspapers and read them. Such a cool idea. A bit of a side tangent, but I have been trying to locate newspaper archives, and I just can't find them anywhere for download outside of newspapers.com, and even then they rate limit the hell out you. There is not effective way to bulk download these artifacts so I can peruse offline, which is typical :( Does anyone know where to find bulk old newspaper downloads?
- XFrequentist 3y agoThis display with regularly-rotating high-quality pencil art could be a neat business. The comparison to wall art makes the hardware price look more reasonable, and you could offer a subscription to curated pieces or a network of artists' output.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoCan I just get the 32" eink display without any of the bespokeness though?
- jonathankoren 3y agoYeah. They're sold online. A 31 inch monochrome runs about $1500. $2500 for a 42 inch. https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product?sort=hight https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product?sort=hight
- Animats 3y ago(2021) The display is still expensive. $1500 for the panel, $500 for the driver board.[1] As a status symbol, it probably has a limited lifespan. When Bill Gates built his first big house, he had big CRT monitors embedded in the walls to display art. Had to have working corridors behind the wall for that. Now, anybody on here could have that, but the result would look like a sports bar. [1] https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/31.2''MonochromeePaperDisplay(VA3200-QAA) https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/31.2''Monochrome...
- akaru 3y agoBut he had fun doing it and enjoying it in the mean time I’d hope. Most tech is quickly dated. Most any decor is as well.
- Joe_Boogz 3y agothis is a project my girlfriend said yes to buying immediately. Until she saw the price. Its about $2250 too expensive. I know its cost and whatever. But to make this feasible for your average person it'd have to come down in cost ALOT.
- dsiegel2275 3y agoWhy would I want to stand next to my wall to read the newspaper?
- momirlan 3y ago"News" is really bad for the soul. A daily comic might be better. The hardware seems good otherwise.
- bluepuma77 3y agoI think a really interesting project would be an Arduino/Pico/ESP controller and driver for the $1500 display. Open source, wake-up timer on set interval, connect to Wifi, fetch URL, display image, go back to sleep. Or have it permanently connected to Wifi and POST a URL to the controller any time to fetch a new image. That way you could control the full stack and do not need any subscriptions or rely on external companies.
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- wilg 3y agoI did a project with one of the Art Frames from Frame Labs: https://framelabs.eu/en/ https://framelabs.eu/en/
- amelius 3y agoMy newspaper is in color.
- rcarr 3y ago> E ink is the perfect technology for wall art Call me old fashioned, but I'd say that good old fashioned canvas or paper is the perfect technology for wall art. Do we really need to mine the Earth of god knows what just so the wall doesn't look bare? If everyone who bought this thing spent the money on some art from a local artist not only would the artist be over the moon, they'd help sustain their local creative scene and most likely make their communities a better place.
- dbttdft 3y ago>The Place & Play 32-inch screen is pricey (2300 euros ex VAT), but an exquisite piece of hardware. It is made of stainless steel with sharp edges and a glass panel on top. The USB ports are discretely concealed, and the device feels sturdy. Thank you for confirming my first impression which is that this is just a massively overpriced novelty item (which I concluded when seeing how much work was put into the video after skipping over the content-free article, and especially noticing the high level of moire meaning it must be very low DPI but for some reason the word resolution is not mentioned anywhere on the page lol).
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt would be cool if it was Archive.org scans of newspapers from 100 years ago. But I'd pay nearly as much as this costs to not have current news beamed into my brain by my home furnishings.
- simonjgreen 3y agoI use a lot of Visionect products for quite a few years now. I have deployed easily hundreds to many many office environments as both digital signage and meeting room occupancy displays. They are a fantastic company. They have b2b direct brand called Joan, check out getjoan.com. I'm curious what URL serves the current front page of a given newspaper though that you can point these at.
- car 3y agoThe PDF links for NYT front pages (different versions) are on this page: https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper