Sony Digital Paper - Reinventing paper. Sony's e-ink tablet.

@jerrebm "[…] battery life of up to 3 weeks" That's why. ;) I guess it's great f.e. for teacher and a fluent replacement for analog stuff.

@jerrebm maybe to increase the user base and boost the market of this product; so that it will, in turn, push forward the development of future products using this R&D as a base. I've been waiting for years now for electronic paper to take our need for paper to the lowest as possible. Trying to save what's left of our forests seems a decent goal and reducing paper consumption is one of the most credible ways to get there IMHO. Kudos to Sony for trying again and again in this domain.

@ch_mandel @jerrebm Definitely, if nothing else it will push more R&D into this field and hopefully halt or at least slowdown deforestation. A lot of really cool tech out there trying to solve environmental issues nowadays, it's quite inspiring.

@ch_mandel I would think producing paper is 'greener' than producing this and similar products. At least to get more paper we have to plant more trees.

@jerrebm mindfulness :)

@m_rlons I don't get the joke but its still funny 🤣

@eonpilot https://myboogieboard.com/ looks like the boogie board has departed largely from where it started, but it used to be more similar to what Sony just released...albeit shittier

@eonpilot @m_rlons He's referring to another similar product, not the outdoor sporting activity. http://www.myboogieboard.com/

@xtoq @m_rlons Ahh. Seems like this space is getting crowded: Even a company from my home-country Norway has a eInk-Tablet: https://getremarkable.com/ This one is 55ms refresh-rate. The new IPad pro is 20ms. Smaller is better. I guess there is a reason they always draw slow in these promo vids 🔑

@m_rlons when did the boogie board die? My kid uses it every day !

@julienbek Why must you speak of this and ruin everything?

@julienbek I think sony's is 55ms

@joesnell @julienbek Yeah, I think 55ms is the cutting edge eInk atm. Was 100ms not long ago.

@tonybrix The final frontier.

@tonybrix space... it's the 'final frontier'. not there yet, it seems. :P

@tonybrix I reckon they are implying you can thrown it at someone across the room, or the neighbourhood, like a boomerang..

@johnyqi We're definitely in the expensive, low-volume part of this type of products life cycle.

@johnyqi Agreed. We won't get there unless companies like Sony keep investing and experimenting, not just in the tech but in bringing a (somewhat?) viable product to market. Too expensive for me too, but I'm glad it exists.