PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech

Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by jamessantiago on Monday January 26, 2015 @12:52AM (#8945689)

I love the idea of an e-ink monitor. This would be a great performance display for a headless server. Weather and news display connected to an arduino? Low power systems that expend just enough power to display some information then shutdown while allowing the display to retain its static display?

It might not be the most versatile of displays but use of this should really be in the "right tool for the right job" mindset.

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by detaro on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:00AM (#8945710)

If you are looking for something for those purposes, some e-readers used rootable android as their OS, which would make displaying custom stuff relatively easy.

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by rtpg on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:09AM (#8945728)

do you know of which ones exactly? I was looking into using an old kindle for such a think, but couldn't figure out a straightforward way of pushing data onto it

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by SixSigma on Monday January 26, 2015 @04:34AM (#8946180)

The Sony ones are pretty hackable

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/how_to_hack_sony_rea...

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by ForHackernews on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:13AM (#8945742)

Kindle is one of the harder ones. The Barnes and Noble Nook is android-based and easily rootable: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nook-touch

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by polshaw on Monday January 26, 2015 @05:57AM (#8946424)

NB it runs android 2.1 though. Is there even a VNC viewer that runs on an android version that old?

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by walterbell on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:03AM (#8947006)

For devices which do have a VNC viewer, is it possible to periodically (e.g. every 15 mins) wake up the device, refresh the screen via VNC, then power off or switch into very low power state running only the timer?

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Re:PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech by detaro on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:31AM (#8947489)

Sony PRS-Tx (I think all 3). Seems like they all used Gingerbread, but for simple apps (e.g. just pulling a web page or text) that should be ok.

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