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Kindle users, can your reader do this: Flappy bird on e-paper

12 points by luka-birsa 13y ago

szatkus 13y ago
Nook users aren't impressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgb6sVT6OYY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgb6sVT6OYY
agapos 13y ago
I don't have a Kindle. Also, I don't have a golf club either. But I am certain that if I ever decide to buy a golf club, I won't use it to play hockey, just as I would not buy an e-book reader to play Floppy Bird.
- Swizec 13y ago
  And yet, youtube finds over 33 thousand videos of people playing hockey with a golf club. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=golf+club+hockey&page=&utm_source=opensearch http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=golf+club+hockey... Besides, I think the point of this article is that e-paper doesn't necessarily have to mean "ebook reader".
- JanezStupar 13y ago
  The point of the article is not that eInk is all the rage for gaming. The point of the article is that out there is an eInk platform that makes building and deploying web applications to eInk simple and developer friendly. Disclaimer: I have developed Visionect Geoffrey restarurant ordering system and Wemar Nautipad nautic application for Visionect V Tablet platform.
- nobodysfool 13y ago
  Yea, you get to the end and it turns out its just an animation, you don't actually control the bird at all.
rlu 13y ago
I know very little (er, how bout zero) about e-paper technology. However, I'm guessing when designing it there were certain assumptions and optimizations that were made given the reasonable guess that the screen's content would not change often. Is it possible you could somehow do bad things to the device by doing something like this? Maybe akin to red-lining an engine, or ghosting an old CRT, or maybe other things?
nicpottier 13y ago
This is mostly just showing off their eInk platform, and at that it does a good job. (with some humor) The devices themselves look kind of neat, wonder what pricing is at volumes. IE, if I wanted to build a restaurant ordering system based on this, what would it cost per device to sell to my end users?
- luka-birsa 13y ago
  We actually have a restaurant ordering system build on our tablets and you could resell that to your end users and/or you could build your own. Drop us a line at info@visionect.si to get more info about pricing.

12 points by luka-birsa 13y ago

Nook users aren't impressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgb6sVT6OYY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgb6sVT6OYY

I don't have a Kindle. Also, I don't have a golf club either. But I am certain that if I ever decide to buy a golf club, I won't use it to play hockey, just as I would not buy an e-book reader to play Floppy Bird.

Swizec 13y ago
And yet, youtube finds over 33 thousand videos of people playing hockey with a golf club. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=golf+club+hockey&page=&utm_source=opensearch http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=golf+club+hockey... Besides, I think the point of this article is that e-paper doesn't necessarily have to mean "ebook reader".
JanezStupar 13y ago
The point of the article is not that eInk is all the rage for gaming. The point of the article is that out there is an eInk platform that makes building and deploying web applications to eInk simple and developer friendly. Disclaimer: I have developed Visionect Geoffrey restarurant ordering system and Wemar Nautipad nautic application for Visionect V Tablet platform.
nobodysfool 13y ago
Yea, you get to the end and it turns out its just an animation, you don't actually control the bird at all.

rlu 13y ago

I know very little (er, how bout zero) about e-paper technology. However, I'm guessing when designing it there were certain assumptions and optimizations that were made given the reasonable guess that the screen's content would not change often. Is it possible you could somehow do bad things to the device by doing something like this? Maybe akin to red-lining an engine, or ghosting an old CRT, or maybe other things?

nicpottier 13y ago

This is mostly just showing off their eInk platform, and at that it does a good job. (with some humor) The devices themselves look kind of neat, wonder what pricing is at volumes. IE, if I wanted to build a restaurant ordering system based on this, what would it cost per device to sell to my end users?

luka-birsa 13y ago
We actually have a restaurant ordering system build on our tablets and you could resell that to your end users and/or you could build your own. Drop us a line at info@visionect.si to get more info about pricing.