Re:Sony’s e-paper tablet is a great example of Weird Sony
by ChuckMcM on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:17PM
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I think I have 5 or 6 BoogieBoards around my lab, one of them is a 'sync'. The challenge with the boogieboard is that they are like writing with a very fat marker. (and its a bit smaller than standard paper.
If you compare what you can do with that vs a Surface Pro 4 pencil and Drawboard PDF the contrast is fairly startling (and expected given order of magnitude difference in price).
I asked the inventor of the Boogieboard at Makerfaire if they had ever considered making a large whiteboard sized one (that would be pretty useful in my lab). He said they would consider it but there were technical issues with the surface area vs the erase mechanism (something like generating a very strong electric field across a very large area like that).
If you compare what you can do with that vs a Surface Pro 4 pencil and Drawboard PDF the contrast is fairly startling (and expected given order of magnitude difference in price).
I asked the inventor of the Boogieboard at Makerfaire if they had ever considered making a large whiteboard sized one (that would be pretty useful in my lab). He said they would consider it but there were technical issues with the surface area vs the erase mechanism (something like generating a very strong electric field across a very large area like that).