Awesome! E-paper desperately needs more products from more vendors! :D

Crowd funding here:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow

This is probably the coolest innovation I have seen in the past few years from the open source community. That is so awesome!

This guy is extremely smart and dedicated. It is crazy that he has been able to do it all single handedly as a hobby in only a few years!

I'd really like to see a laptop made with this type of display...

God damn. Kinda makes me rethink the color android ereader I'd been thinking about getting in hopes something like this comes along...

I read lots of webcomics and a higher refresh rate would be hugely helpful when I'm reading webtoons (though I much prefer old school indie webcomics)

Einks usually degrade at fast refresh rates (or too many or too few reflashes), but that might be just the cheap ones (otherwise this product wouldn't last more than a few years, which hopefully ofc isn't the case).

But the "brightness" limitation of colour einks still bothers me a lot, the contrast on/of white backgrounds is just too good on monochrome versions (eg for books I don't want colour einks), and it's not just something I would only notice in direct comparison, it's a constant feature/luxury.

I've been following this project for a year or two. It's pretty great but the price point is prohibitive

There are also non-open-hardware solutions available, which reach even bigger sizes at 33 Hz and 3 bit per pixel, for instance from Dasung.

I have the "DASUNG Paperlike Color (Revolutionary)", and I use it for coding. I works really well for that purpose, but I would not recommend it for anything else. That's because it really only has 3 bits per pixel, meaning you get exactly 8 colours: black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow. No shades of grey or anything, just those 8 colours in full saturation. For text (with disabled anti-aliasing - it makes the text fuzzy, but it is not needed, the resolution is great) that's fine, for anything else not so much. Also, the contrast of the colour display isn't too great. It either needs sunlight, its built-in front-light, or a desk lamp. It is also worth noting, that (at least the colour) Dasung screen does not have any display modes at higher bit-depth.

I also have a Boox Mira (non-Pro), which (I think) has 15 Hz, but unlike the Dasung, it also a "presentation mode" with more bits per pixel (I don't know how many, I think it has 12) but much lower refresh rate (feels like 5 Hz). That mode is good for anything that doesn't move, like reading papers or non-animated webpages.

I am using the Dasung for work, and the Boox for spare time stuff. Typing works better on the Dasung screen, because of its higher refresh rate. Reading works better on the Boox, because of its higher bit-depth.

If I wouldn't already have the Boox Mira, I think I would buy the Modos screen for basically the same use-case. I am actually considering getting the Modos devkit, and modding my laptop with it, but will probably not do that because I barely use my laptop nowadays and can always just connect the Boox display via HDMI.

Wonder what this does to the battery life - like does it even make sense for this to be an e ink screen with that many refreshes?

Somebody reach out to Framework for a collab!!!

Where are there e ink panels on the shelf?

I would, but at this price I can buy two color boox devices, and I'm eyeing one for a couple of years now. Hope this gets traction, but I'm not this first adopter-pilled.

That's amazing. Wish they'd named and shamed the crappy chip supplier tho. I'd like to avoid them if I have need of their services.