For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed.
When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite.
Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy getting attached everywhere makes me happy.
Can't wait to see Gemini-2.5 Pro-level LLMs embedded inside single post-it notes and thrown away like it's no big deal.
Alarm bells always go off for me when a vendor, as here, blatantly Photoshops an idealized perfectly black, flat, and non-reflective mockup image of what would be displayed onto the picture of the real display.
One thing I would like is a small portable hdmi display to use with my headless servers when they fail to boot. Even better would show screen over network.
I recently researched USB connected information displays but I am interested in e-Ink. I want
- USB power + data
- Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps)
- Image retention when powered off
- High resolution paper like appearance
- Between A5 and A4 in size
- At least black, red and yellow as colors
- Buttons or a way to connect buttons would be a bonus
I feel like the winning move here would be to put the screen on a ball joint or hinge to give more options than just “face forward” v. “face backward”.
I'd speculate those came first (kinda popular with streamers and such, I think) and they basically just added a usb port. In the product video you can even see that they arrive as individual sticks to be plugged in.
It is probably easier and cheaper to have 6x separate display & microcontroller and update each one independently
Anyone know if this or similar devices can display information sent from some code I write in, say, rust without drivers or libraries (eg should not be too complicated to write to) on macOS? Could be a lot of fun to be had!
This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
My Raspberry Pis have also gathered quite a lot of dust during the years but they're pretty nice to have around. I needed to start hosting a web service and instead of buying a VPS to run it on, I just dusted off the old Raspberry Pi 2 and set up my service there.
Really wish they'd include a real life image of the display though. Article author acknowledges this, but still...substantially detracts usefulness of write-up
>Not an actual photo, as I could not find any with the display connected to a host
On personal computers (laptops) I would like to see a ambient info display and/or edge lighting / indicator option that can be customized and conrolled by software.
One of the use cases i like is a visible indicator of when the Video camera/ screenshare or microphone is on -- and if the user wishes to, display that status (busy/on air) to others around them (like some over-the-ear headphones currently do).
It will serve was a reminder to the user themselves to be mindful of the cam/screen/mic -- and also to nearby people not to disturb them to walk into camera frame unintentionally.
I am sure there are tons of other uses for those willing to experiment.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 58.4 ms ] threadWhen I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite.
Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy getting attached everywhere makes me happy.
Can't wait to see Gemini-2.5 Pro-level LLMs embedded inside single post-it notes and thrown away like it's no big deal.
Yo, dawg:
https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-rt82
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41138701#41140193
- USB power + data
- Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps)
- Image retention when powered off
- High resolution paper like appearance
- Between A5 and A4 in size
- At least black, red and yellow as colors
- Buttons or a way to connect buttons would be a bonus
If anyone has a tip, I'd be grateful.
Spectra color so high res and beautiful with built in esp32.
Were they a success?
https://www.amazon.com/LONYIABBI-Electronic-Simulation-Power...
I'd speculate those came first (kinda popular with streamers and such, I think) and they basically just added a usb port. In the product video you can even see that they arrive as individual sticks to be plugged in.
It is probably easier and cheaper to have 6x separate display & microcontroller and update each one independently
Obviously it’s not the same price range but the Stream Deck is way more useful and user friendly.
Malicious USB devices are fairly common, and this certainly has the 'right' form factor.
There's a reason 'do not plug in a USB drive you have found in the parking lot' is reiterated in every corp security training.
It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing.
This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
Really wish they'd include a real life image of the display though. Article author acknowledges this, but still...substantially detracts usefulness of write-up
>Not an actual photo, as I could not find any with the display connected to a host
One of the use cases i like is a visible indicator of when the Video camera/ screenshare or microphone is on -- and if the user wishes to, display that status (busy/on air) to others around them (like some over-the-ear headphones currently do).
It will serve was a reminder to the user themselves to be mindful of the cam/screen/mic -- and also to nearby people not to disturb them to walk into camera frame unintentionally.
I am sure there are tons of other uses for those willing to experiment.