Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?

Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by swyx on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:54AM (#15720006)

100% agree. imagine my shock when as a young technology analyst I discovered that E-Ink was a smallcap tech company in Taiwan and basically produced kindle displays, store price tags and that cool double sided phone that one time. I thought it was a huge deal when they managed to do color E-Ink. but no one cared.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by wrinkl3 on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:39AM (#15720845)

Around 2010 I assumed it would a matter of a couple of years until we were reading comic books on our Kindle Color ink tablets.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by deusum on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:30AM (#15721101)

Still waiting on that E-Ink phone that lasts a month between charges.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by frik on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:16AM (#15721694)

I bought a Motorola F3 phone like 10 years ago for relatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

E-ink display, good for elder people, you can drop it from 100 feets height, or run a tank over it, drop it in a pool. It will survive.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by lucaspiller on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:07AM (#15721652)

The Motorola F3 is that phone, if all you care about are phone calls (it can’t really do SMS). You are probably better getting a similar era Nokia though, as the battery life was about the same and they were a lot more functional.

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by leggomylibro on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:48PM (#15724159)

You can buy 3-color (white, black, and read all over) ones for ... I want to say about 20 yuan which is like $3?

I haven't looked into driving them yet; that's step 3 and I'm still on step 1 (monochrome OLEDs) but I think you might have to do some funky temperature adjustment stuff to get good results out of them...maybe that hasn't quite been integrated into the display controller chips yet?

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:32AM (#15729324)

> "(white, black, and read all over)"

Isn't that supposed to be "red all over"? Or are you making a pun?

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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by spoinkarooo on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:20PM (#15737774)

8069.TW. It has more than doubled YTD.

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