e-ink

M5Stack has launched PaperMono, a compact E-Ink development terminal powered by ESP32-S3, designed for low-power IoT projects with features like touch display, NFC, and LoRa connectivity.

A tweet highlights that the Grok 4.6 AI model successfully generated a maze game for e-ink displays in a single attempt, showcasing its creative capabilities.

The author built feedpaper, a macOS tool that converts RSS feeds into an e-pub 'newspaper' for a pocket e-ink reader, helping them read blogs away from their phone.

A review of TCL's Note A1 Nxtpaper tablet, a hybrid Android device that combines a paper-like display for note-taking with full video and app capabilities, noting its strengths and UI quirks.

A user shares hands-on impressions of a thin, light Android-based device featuring microphone, speaker, OCR, text-to-speech, and a ChatGPT 5.2 chat, noting the only clear drawback is its lack of color.

An HN user asks for practical advice on e-ink UI design conventions, specifically for building browser-based frontends (Lemmy and OpenRouter) on an e-ink smartphone, addressing refresh handling, ghosting, and layout approaches.

ZecTrix Lab's Note 4 is a 4.2-inch ESP32-S3 e-paper display that functions as an AI sticky note with voice input, featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, and support for open-source firmware.

Google Developers showcase an e-ink picture frame demo called Glanceboard, built with Gemini 3.6 Flash and Nano Banana, which turns calendar data into daily illustrated art. The open-source guide and GitHub repo show how to build it using Google Antigravity and off-the-shelf hardware.

The Remarkable Paper Pro refurbished bundle is available for $449.99 on Woot, saving over $350 off the regular price. The bundle includes the tablet, Marker Plus stylus, and Book Folio with a 90-day warranty.

KOReader is an open-source document viewer for E Ink devices that supports a wide range of file formats including EPUB, PDF, and MOBI, and runs on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android, and desktop Linux.

Boox announces the Picco, a tiny e-reader with a 3.97-inch front-lit e-paper display and SD card slot, as part of its new Tile lineup to compete with Xteink's small e-readers.

The author reflects on calm, focused technologies like e-readers and music players, and highlights the Daylight Computer as an exciting new device that combines e-ink with fast display capabilities.

First impressions of the Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi, an Android E-ink tablet with Android 15 and new lighting, focusing on its use as a personal newspaper and the challenges of finding compatible apps for E-ink scrolling.

The Xteink X4 Pro adds a touchscreen and lighting to the company's tiny e-reader, offering better hardware but frustrating software, with alternative firmware planned at launch.

Running Tldraw on a ReMarkable tablet using a barebone Chromium port, with some ghosting and lag.

This open-source project transforms the reMarkable Paper Pro into a magical diary that absorbs handwritten text and responds with AI-generated handwriting, creating an immersive Harry Potter-inspired experience.

Valve has open-sourced the design for a DIY e-ink display front panel for the Steam Machine, called 'Inkterface', providing a parts list and assembly instructions under the MIT license.

Inkwell is a self-hosted RSS/Atom reader that serves articles as static HTML optimized for the built-in browser on e-ink devices like the Kindle, with background pre-processing for fast loading.

Through algorithm and driver optimization, the developer increased the refresh rate of the M5Stack PaperS3's E-ink screen to 60Hz, successfully ran the GameBoy emulator, and achieved smooth dynamic images.

Xteink's X3 and X4 e-readers are 20% off for Prime Day, offering pocketable alternatives to Kindles and Kobos with magnetic mounts and the option to upgrade to CrossPoint Reader firmware.