A 13.3-inch electronic paper monitor "Paperlike" enabling PC work without hurting the world's first eye

Continuing looking at the display of the PC may cause adverse effects such as damage to the eyes and headache, but desk workers who use the PC at work frequently face the display all day. E Ink's electronic paper monitor "E Ink's e-paper monitor"Paperlike"is. You will be able to do PC work such as browsing, programming, writing writing as if you are reading paper.

DASUNG-Paperlike, World's First E Ink Monitor
http://dasung.com.cn/index.html

Paperlike is a display made for people who need to face PC display for a long time, such as office workers and programmers. Because information is displayed with E Ink, unlike the conventional light emitting display, the display itself is not emitting light, so there is no worry that the eyes will be damaged. It is exactly "the sense of reading what is written on paper" to get information. Although you can not display color, you can adjust black and white with 16 levels of gray scale.


Battery and power cord are unnecessary, you can use it by connecting with PC with USB cable.


The resolution can be changed between 800 × 600 and 1600 × 1200. It is the highest level of resolution as electronic paper.


Since it is electronic paper, you can browse the monitor even under the sun.


Compared with existing e-book readers, Paperlike achieves high refresh rate and low latency. I have sufficient display capability if I hit text in Word, write programs with editor, browsing. However, it is not suitable for rendering colorful photographs and animations, as the movement of the mouse slows down as there is no processing capacity as compared with the conventional liquid crystal display.


You can see well how you actually use Paperlike, the display speed of scrolling, etc. on the following movies.

Unique Experience with the Latest Dasung Paperlike: word, browser, ppt etc. - YouTube


The following is typing letters in the editor with Paperlike.


Even if you scroll through the webpage you can display it at a stress-free speed.



Playable with simple games like Pac-Man


Movement stamps were also slimy display by e-mail.


There is no problem writing code or scrolling the editor.


Information displayed on the monitor can be adjusted with 16 levels of grayscale. Four settings of white, light gray, dark gray, and black can be adjusted from the setting screen with bars respectively, and four preset settings "Dark" "Medium" "Light" "User-define" are also prepared.


Image output can be changed to 4 types of "A5 mode" "Floyd algorithm" "A2 mode" "16 mode". In A2 mode you can quickly display in 2 colors, but a perfect black and white screen without gradation display. Displaying with 16 levels of grayscale 16 modes can be displayed most beautifully, but the display speed is slow. The A5 mode and Floyd algorithm can maintain the display speed while keeping the details of the image to some extent.


The specifications of Paperlike are as follows, and the corresponding OS is Windows XP / 7/8 / 8.1 / 10, Mac OS.


Paperlike has been announced at CES 2015, reviews of users who purchased leading items already sold in limited quantities have also appeared.

Paperlike Electronic Paper Display Review: E-book Edition - To read letters, to convey sentences.
http://semialt.hatenablog.com/entry/2015/08/01/025006

Paperlike was only sold to dozens of units, but we started recruitment of investment at Indiegogo for commercialization. It has already exceeded the target amount at the time of article creation and the actual product has already been sold, so it can be said that the productization is certain. If you invest in a plan of 799 dollars (about 87,800 yen) you can get 1 Paperlike, in addition to the main unit, a Micro-USB cable and a portable stand are included. Shipping fee is free in any country, shipping planned around August 2016. The deadline of investment is around the end of June 2016.

Paperlike: World's First E Ink Monitor - 13.3 "| Indiegogo
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e-ink-monitor-13-3#/