The development of LED display does provide our eyes some form of reprieve, but it is not ideal. The bright light emitted by today’s display is still harmful and instead of living with the side effects, a China-based company, Dasung, tables the idea of using e-ink display as the alternative display monitor for our daily use. The outfit’s first product, Paperlike, was introduced more than a year ago, but did not take off as it was deemed too pricey, but man, these guys are determined in the crusade of protecting our eyes and they are back, again pitching the idea of e-ink display as the alternative. Nothing groundbreaking here though. The company is re-pitching the idea of the world’s largest e-ink display, measuring 13.3-inch diagonally.
As with traditional e-ink display, Dasung’s Paperlike has no backlight and behaves pretty much like paper, making it readable even under sunlight without glare. The monitor offers up to 1,600 x 1,200 resolution and promised to delivery higher refresh rate at a lower latency as compared to traditional e-ink display, thus making them equally suited for for working on documents, surf the internet and more. Dasung even went to extend to develop an image processing algorithm that will put together, at high-speed, high-quality image.
But, lets not kid ourselves here. E-ink is essentially black and white and well, it is e-ink, and so do not expect it to perform like a LED monitor or similar. There’s bound to be lag and the image won’t turn out as brilliant as computer monitor with billions of color and densely packed pixels. However, if you work say for example, as a writer who do not need fancy images and colors, this may be the peripheral you want for the sake of your eyes.
There’s a catch though. It is not cheap to begin with. Dasung Paperlike 13.3-inch E-Ink Monitor is selling on Indiegogo priced at $799 and if you know anything about monitor’s prices, that amount could easily snag you a pretty decent color display packed with the latest technology. Then again, we shouldn’t put a price tag to the wellbeing of our eyes, should we?
Images courtesy of Dasung.
