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Ionnyk: Art as a service on E Paper displays(visionect.com)
1 points by luka-birsa 6y ago|0 comments
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
I KNOW Bitcoin is really bad/evil/ponzi/fake, but can't you guys just leave the people to do mistakes on their own? /sarcasm off Funny how people tend to disregard this comment and keep doing just fine. For over a d
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Try Windows - it's the best interface to experience Linux from :D.
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
This is untrue. As somebody that just defected from OSX to Windows I can tell you that you're missing out. Windows became a more stable and usable PC where everything just works. My 2 year old top of the line MBP was replaced by a 3 y
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
The screen really does not let a lot of light shine through. There is a reflective coating (imagine aluminum foil) that reflects back. We did try to use the opacity of screen with high power leds for some usecases but it did not work. I thi
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
We have ACeP in our labs and it looks really good while displaying images. It's not high end glossy print colorful, but it's very very close. More than enough for most applications. It's also a stark difference to the color-f
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
E Ink film is sensitive to UV light. It will optically degrade without proper UV protection. We've had a display without protection on a sunny desk by an open window (so no UV protection on the windows as well) and we got permanent bur
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Looks like the technology didn't pan out. Not sure what the end reason was, but E Ink won that battle.
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
With current E Ink technology no. Even if it was technically feasible (not sure about that), nobody is focusing on high refresh rates. Increasing refresh increases battery consumption and that means you're taking away one of the key be
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
If a lot of great things were built and bought by customers, eInk would be more widely available. :) If you want to make eInk happen in other applications, just go and buy the devices that are out there. You can be the visionary that makes
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
It's a very niche product. Most people opt for modern OLED displays for consumer needs, so it's really a chicken and egg problem. I'm sure if you start buying in bulk companies will notice. Sony is working on a bunch of consu
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
We have working prototypes of smaller displays in house, but I do not think E Ink offers large format solution. There is one caveat with color - the refresh rates are still not quite there yet (we've seen ~5-10s for the 4096 color vers
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
So we do have quite a lot of experience running these screens in extreme environments - we've worked with a company called Mercury Innovation and built a fleet of traffic signs that have been running in scorching Australia non-stop for
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
You can acually buy them today - Dasung did manage to productivize them enough for people to try them out. But it's really hard to compete on price, especially with consumer 27" 4k display costing 100-200$.
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
E Ink owns the majority of the patents, so direct clones of E Ink are being made under license. I do not think that the patents are the limiting factor - the specific applications are somewhat limited compared to widespread use of OLED. For
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
I know right! Consumer market is all about quantities and pricing, so it's really hard to launch a successful consumer product in this space as E Ink internet connected photo frame is as niche you can get. We actually offer a device th
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
If you're looking for a less hacky version that still looks good (similar to the OPs 32" display) and is simple to build upon - you can use our 13" touchless variant. The Joan line is fully productivized and you can use our h
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
The screens usually have at least 1-2mm border around them, plus driving complexity will go over the roof. But it's a great tinkerers project - go for it! Since our software allows tiling we've built some test large scale composit
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Hey, don't hold our heritage against us and rather swing by our Valley office when C-19 allows us to meet. On the subject of price - I fully agree with you - the price for sure can't be justified just by energy savings. It's
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Founder of Visionect here. I'm so happy when these kinds of posts surface as this is exactly how we've envisoned our platform to be used - by tinkerers builidng interesting ideas. I do see a lot of comments regarding the price, so
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
November is the month that doesn't stop giving. Bitcoin over 15k, the old Yello on its way out and now Covid vaccine. Quite the November surprise.
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
We've been funded by various research grants from EU as well asEU VC money. Grants are bureaucracy, sure, but if you understand how you navigate it - and every entrepreneurial person shoud - then it's really free money with a bit
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Getting paying customers is great for idea validation. If nobody wants to pay, you at least know that.
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
The funny thing is, I had a pitch by Azure to convince us to switch from GCP. And they point blank said that Google is not investing into GCP and implied that it's on a death bed. LOL
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
It is quite amusing to see Slack filing competition complaint after being so brash in bashing MS at the launch of MS Teams. Remember the full page ad they ran in NYT? https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/1349776
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Why would a doctor promote Heroin? If they would, especially for recreative purposes, would be very much at odds with any medical ethics. What is clear via Oxy example is that medical ethics really need to be upheld and profit taken out of
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
Probably not so hard to do: - Personal reports from drug users - since the majority of users are recreative users and not hardcore junkies, and even those are just people with various levels of mental issues, I would actually find this reli
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Show HN: Using E Ink as your home-assistant.io wireless smart home control(getjoan.com)
1 points by luka-birsa 6y ago|0 comments
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
I wonder if they changed the licensing to something you can actually use in a non FOSS product. Way way back (8 years ago?) we were deciding between webkit and gecko for our solution (we needed a web engine for server side GFX rendering) an
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by luka-birsa 6y ago
As somebody living in Europe I find this data very interesting. We had a super strong flu season, which was incredibly contagious. This is the first year (in a decade) that everybody in my family got it. One kid first, then the other, then

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