Re:Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
by adolph on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:01PM
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It isn't clear to me that eink's underlying display technology isn't good at the interactive computing use case so much as the implementations aren't optimized for it. There could be a position where more power than an eink reader is used but still far less than traditional active displays since unchanged pixels aren't driven.
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Re:Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
by alex-a-soto on Thursday June 18, 2026 @05:01PM
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That's how I think about it too.
E-readers are vertically integrated devices: the hardware, software, UI, and refresh behavior are all tailored around reading. E-ink tablets like reMarkable are similar, but optimized around writing and annotation.
A traditional monitor is much more general-purpose, so it doesn't get the same kind of end-to-end optimization for the display medium. I think there's room for an in-between category: a more interactive e-ink device where both the hardware and software are designed around the strengths and limits of the panel.
There's some related work happening in this direction:
Re:Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
by adrian_b on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:41AM
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It should be good enough for interactive use, but not for watching movies.
In TFA it is said that for these new faster panels the transition time of a pixel is around 50 ms. This is comparable with some old LCDs.