Hundred Dollar Laptop

[tansis]

**broken link removed**

Not quite in the shops yet , but I hope it's getting closer.

 

[Someone Electro]

I want one,I want one!!!!

it costs almost 3 times les then i pyed form my mobile phone($270)!

500Mhz isent much but for 100$ its realy good.

I wanted a laptop but they cost $1500

and these electronic ink dispays are cheap 15' only $20 (you get an 4x8 char. LCDfor that)

 

[tansis]

Anybody got a good link to these displays?

 

[Someone Electro]

found somting about these e-ink displays.There simply remerkebme and they only need power to refresh an image

https://www.research.philips.com/technologies/display/ov_elpap.html

it wod be cool is i cod get on of those display moules

cant sem to find a place to buy them.They semm to be wery cheap (you wod pay $100 for such an LCD but EP is even beter)

 

[panic mode]

as far as i can remember electronic ink was not fast.
screen update was like 0.5 sec or so. this is enough
for text display without frequent changes but if this
response time is really true, ink paper it is hopelessly slow
for animations. i really hope they work fast and in high resolution
because that would make it excellent product. i really
like that last image stays after powerdown so you don't have
to keep laptop running just to look at the map screenshot
while driving around for example.

 

[Someone Electro]

I seen the video of these screens(its video (2) )They refresh realy slow but they look like real paper and need absolutly no powaer to susatin the image.

but there are only black and white and have one shade of gray.

If they wod make color ones you cod have an picture frame that you wod plug your computer in set an image and plug it out(an "E frame" heh)

cud be also useful for PIC projects.

The best thing is that this technology is cheap (cod mean bye bye LCDs). (im stil using an CRT computer monitor)