Technology

Why, for the love of all the gods, do people keep saying and writing "LCD display".

Tell me what the "D" in "LCD" means!

What does the "D" mean, hmmm!?

For a work machine with a lot of text and little graphics, this is great. Less eye strain for long periods.

Also a lap desk. And a coffee thermos. And headphones. Second screen.
God, I'm too spoiled for nature, ain't I

This device runs android, but it's pretty close https://shop.boox.com/products/tabxc

That... would actually be pretty dope

I bought a trmnl and it's pricey but works pretty good. I've mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.

There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be 'offline' in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven't put the time aside.

Or to hang on a home server rack displaying dashboards.

There's this range of Philips signage displays in up to 32" (~$1800 USD): https://www.ppds.com/display-solutions/digital-signage/philips-tableaux

They even run Android, so should be able to install the Home Assistant app natively. Being intended as a signage solution, there's also PoE (although it is 45W 802.3bt class5), and even room for four 18650 batteries.

Notably though, they use the newer E-Ink "Spectra" (16 bit, 65,536 colour) panel which offers its full 2560x1600 resolution in both greyscale and colour, not the "Kaleido" one (12 bit, 4096 colour) of this Boox monitor that only has half of its 3200x1800 resolution in colour (Boox recommend using 1400x1050).

I don't know which of the two panels offers better refresh rates, however.

I can see how this would be very attractive to a writer.

Not necessarily just corporations, but certainly text-based workflows. I can see this being great if your day job is writing code, working on spreadsheets, editing documents, etc. In those use cases, framerate hardly matters. Would be great for reducing eye strain.

Might not need anything except economies of scale. But getting that is the problem.

Tablet sized eink displays found a niche that couldn't quite be displaced by smartphones and regular tablets. That let them have a market for getting costs down.

There would need to be a similarly wide use case to get the price down on larger eink displays.

Not sure yet, we're still waiting for the first frame to finish.

If the answer matters then your use case isn’t this monitor’s use case. If you spend all day in Excel, or an IDE, something like that, then it could be awesome for eye strain reduction.

I think it says 23Hz or something

The article mentions another display with a 33 Hz refresh rate. But be aware that there would be significant ghosting even just scrolling a page of text, more so than even a measly 33 Hz refresh rate would lead you to believe.

I remember a 42" plasma TV that cost $12,000 at Best Buy.

Its not meant for gaming. People who display a lot of text (eg. coders) could use less strain in their eyes if they're doing it for a long time. Definitely not at that price though