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Ask Slashdot: Where Are the E-Ink Dashboards?

Posted by timothy on from the it's-called-chalkboard-learn-it dept.

fsck! writes "My office recently installed a pair of huge plasma TVs to display some metrics and graphs. They only update every 15 minutes or so, and I couldn't help but wonder, why can't this be E-Ink? I searched all over the place but couldn't find anything bigger than 9.5" (Amazon's Kindle DX). I want a >30" E-Ink picture frame with USB or WiFi. Can the Slashdot community find anything greener than these energy sucking plasma TVs that seem to be everywhere?"

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  1. DIY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use a white board and erasable marker plotter, computer controlled.
    Bonus, it would put you on slashdot and earn you nerd cred. Maybe.

    1. Re:DIY by Provocateur · · Score: 4, Funny

      To *erase* it?? I was under the impression the sponge SAVES the data in COMPRESSED format every single time!

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    2. Re:DIY by fractoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      It only saves the 1's. The 0's are lost ferever.

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  2. Re:Energy sucking plasma? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    uh huh. One of my coworkers burned the goatse image into my plasma screen while I was on vacation.

  3. Re:Led by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in the eighties we had something similar to prevent CRT burn, it would display a moving or non-regular image, we called it a "screensaver". Everyone seems to have forgotten why they exist. Kids, lawn, etc.

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  4. Re:Use LED LCD TV instead -- not really by kh31d4r · · Score: 5, Funny

    And once it's burned in he can turn it off and save loads of power!

  5. Re:Led by obarel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I vaguely remember a time when "screensaver" wasn't an official synonym for "a zombie-making, disk encrypting, key logging trojan".

  6. Re:9.5' by snspdaarf · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's one hell of a giant e-book reader.

    Well, that's based on the amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area this morning.

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  7. Re:Use E-Ink in an actual dash? by zennyboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    God it hits me in the Nerd when people open brackets and fail to close them - it even changes how I read the damn text!