What we think about it:
WayyyCleverer - "Cool but not $3000 cool"
ThatHurt255 - "Boox (known for their ink readers) sells a 26 monitor for 1800. Niche tech so it's going to be high cost at that size, but I would agree 3k is too high for a normal consumer to buy it."
WayyyCleverer - "Does something prohibit the tech from scaling? E ink readers are pretty low cost"
Sirisian - "No, just very very low demand. [There are 42" E-ink displays](https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/42%27%27MonochromeePaperDisplay(VB3300-RBA)). E-ink has demand when it comes to small tags for pricing and such. In every other use case in digital signage people want bright displays that can play video sometimes."
asfhbgsfghsfg - "it’s patented to hell, only one company produces it"
rpkarma - "Not as much anymore, a few of the key patents have expired now finally and there are alternative approaches too"
ThatHurt255 - "To add onto what u/Sirisian said, the low demand is because the tech for most use cases is inferior to LED (and branches). LEDs are faster and have more accurate colours and like u/asfhbgsfghsfg said not patented to hell."
PrestigiousCoconut99 - "It is a tablet without borders with an app that displays the most current newsletter from a particular publisher. The display is the most expensive part because it is niche being a borderless 32” screen. My former brother-in-law put about 12-15 tablets throughout his house that displayed family photos that, when touched, would disappear to give him access to control music in the house, a PA system and speakers through every room in the house, and climate control. He said he paid ~$100 per tablet, and that just seems like a better deal. That was in 20010 or so, so it’d probably be more expensive (not over $3,000) now"
IAmBack003 - "Gotcha!"
ThatHurt255 - "The display is the niche part but you're forgetting it's an e-ink display not an LED display (uses fluid with ink moved by electric charges, not lights powered by electricity), I highly doubt your brother-in-law installed 15 e-ink tablets in 2012 for only $100 a tablet when most e-ink tablets nowadays that are running android go for 300 or more."
zxyzyxz - "Do you know how many newspapers I can put up for $3,000?"
PrairieCanadian - "Back when people used to read papers delivered to their house they would tape it to the wall because that was the most natural way of reading it."
Dugoutcanoe1945 - "lol"
IAmBack003 - "Might be good above a urinal."
Dry-Package-8187 - "Lollll exactly (this is so dumb)"
playthatsheet - "Ha I never did that. I just used half the kitchen table"
creepystepdad72 - "They don't have humans interacting with it in the promo video, because it would indeed look just as weird/uncomfortable to use as I assume would be the case in real life."
dr4wn_away - "Yes I don’t want to stand next to the paper on the wall and read it. Although maybe they’ll learn something and create a better product down the line."
ThatHurt255 - "if they make a colour version it might be good for displaying art"
