Intel has been backed into a corner by AMD, so they’re pushing clockspeed over balancing against TDP and bus.
Also, the multi-year delays in the next process shrink gave them lots of time to improve yields and micro-optimize the fabrication generation these are running on.
Look at the current death rates. Requiring a tested vaccine is a reasonable response. Requiring an untested vaccination is not something I see happening. I guess we could get to "you can't do certain things like go to large gatherings" if you don't have the vaccine or evidence of having had it.
Meanwhile, In the US 12.x k people at a minimum died of this in the last 7 days, doubling the previous total deaths. There's also a much higher death rate overall than in the past, many of those must be related to covid-19 [1]. If current trends follw, In another week the 25,000 total current deaths will double, in other words, 25,000 are on track to die of covid in a week. It's not just new york; from that same site, in the last 7 days new york's total went from 7k to 15k total cumulative deaths - new york is still doubling every week, even though they look to slow down.
The deadly statistics are fantastically interesting. NY itself had about 8k net new deaths the last week, the rest of the us had about 10k. Both are doubling on a weekly basis.
I don’t think you can force something like that on poor countries without a plan for compensation and restructuring some of their food production and distribution.
You might have heard of some Asian country which holds a permanent seat and veto on the Security Council, the only UN body which can effectively enforce anything...
It's nice as long as your document fits on a single page. Otherwise you need several of them, and it won't allow you to scribble on it or highlight stuff.
IMO this is still less functional than an ordinary sheet of paper, this just solve the energy issue, but not much else.
I'd still probably go with a powered one just to get the benefit of swapping pages and taking notes on it.
On the other hand, if the can manage to make something that can power them over a longer distance than typical NFC, I could see those used for in-office digital signage (meeting room status and schedule, employee schedule, etc) which doesn't require a battery swap, PoE or some other kind of way to power it.
The pricing should also play a significant role in its adoption. Especially if unbundled with other phones. At almost $42 and $70 (for the larger display) we should wait to see which subset of customers could justify it's use-case in daily life.
I've seen a system like this used for price tags already at one of my previous jobs. The tags were e-ink displays that were updated wirelessly using a special tool.
You used to be able to stick a lot of text on a 320x200 display when I first got into software development. :)
Jokes aside, you'd probably want that 480x800 (portrait rather than landscape). Which would be 80 columns and 100 rows in old 8-bit microcomputer terms. So it wouldn't be the more detailed of a document but it should be detailed enough for a cheat sheet or narrowly focused reference page. You probably wouldn't want much more than that anyway otherwise you risk your reference material to be too verbose for quick sanity checks.
I'm always surprised that e-ink readers have such good readability at low resolutions. I think an accidental by-product of how they work is a little "fuzziness" when translating from digital data to analog atoms, so the text looks more like organic newspaper ink than a pixellated screen.
Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600; and I expect if the concept got traction, there's no reason it couldn't be scaled up to 8.5" x 11" at equivalent pixel densities (at the cost of hovering your phone for a few seconds longer or whatever).
> Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600
A Kindle Paperwhite is 1072x1448, 300 PPI, 16 levels of grayscale.
I personally couldn't tolerate reading on a kindle until they reached 212 PPI. 800x600 may be acceptable for a simple sign, but it's not gonna wow anyone.
I think you must be spoiled by modern high-dpi displays if you can't see any use for 800x480 displays. When I was in school I used to put cheatsheets on my TI-83+ which had a 96×64 monochrome display!
I currently do something like this with a cheap thermal printer. Aside from apparent environmental issues of thermal paper, it is really great to print out these short, portable, and disposable materials on a whim from my phone (Bluetooth) and computer (USB).
Do a Google search for "BPA toxic skin contact" (search terms you came up with) and be amazed at the wonder of modern search engines (which will return results from PubMed, Nature, and WebMD).
(edit) There is something telling about how three people have now downvoted my comment for not doing the work of pasting the links myself, but not a single person has bothered to provide the links themselves, which kind of demonstrates the problem with these comments: the comment I am responding to is undermining a well-researched notion--one that AFAIK no one questions, and for which it is trivial to find numerous articles and studies: that BPA is absorbed through the skin from receipts--with the moral equivalent of "citation needed"; that comment asking for a reference seriously took longer to type than finding the relevant articles would have, and yet in practice is asking other people to do that work, and so the work doesn't get done by anyone... but the comment itself sits there, making people who are less informed on the topic question the validity, as in "I dunno, this comment claims they hadn't heard that, and is demanding citations; if it were easy to find a citation they wouldn't be asking that, so I guess the thing they are poking at isn't actually true". If you want to downvote my response to that behavior--which is to point out that a Google search would have worked--but you aren't willing to actually do the work of providing the links yourself (or at least also downvoting the comment), you are just making yourself part of the problem of incentivizing leaving these misinformative comments :/.
I say this to be helpful, so please don’t take it as an attack. While initial comment added no value (e.g. that Google exists), but what I found off-putting was your tone. That, coupled with the comment[0] in your profile, make it easy to jump to a specific conclusion, right or wrong, about your intent. just be mindful of perception. FWIW, I struggle with this daily and often wish more folks would point out when I’m coming across in a way I didn’t intend.
[0] “I make it something of a policy to not look at things people say in response until at least a month later.”
The only times i use a printer these days if someone else wants me to deliver something on paper, not for myself. ePaper is just as unacceptable as digital on phone. Last time was to have a paper copy of a india e-visa.
I don’t mind. Printers often have a startup time of multiple minutes. And with printers we waste paper and we are required to refill them with ink or toner.
I will gladly use this e-Paper display instead in any situation where I want some kind of reference sheet like the parent commenter said, and where the resolution is sufficient.
You can simulate grayscale with dithering, similar to drawing with a pen or pencil. If you really need grayscale or color you can buy eink displays that support it, even ones up to 300ppi. I don't know if 1w would be enough to power them though, and they're a bit more expensive.
Considering these types of displays don't require active energy input to function, I don't see why you couldn't update any size display with 1W. You'd need to progressively update parts of the display at a time, which likely requires extra engineering effort, but in theory it should work.
(Will they go even higher in the future?)