This E Ink Flip Case Shows the Time Without Ever Waking Your Phone
Smartphone cases have become one of the more predictable corners of the mobile accessory market. Most of them do exactly what you’d expect: wrap around…
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This E Ink Foldable Phone Concept Punishes Doomscrolling by Design
Most smartphones are designed to be impossible to put down. The screen faces up on every table, the display lights up for every notification, and…
Compal turns a laptop palm rest into an always-on E Ink notepad
Most of the unused real estate on a laptop has never really been a problem worth solving. The palm rest just sits there, flat and…
This $219 Screen Runs 6 Months Per Charge and Wants Nothing From You
Most of the screens that you encounter everyday is always fighting for your attention, always buzzing, glowing, pulsing with red notification badges designed to hijack…
This 10.3-Inch E-Ink Reader Was Built for Annotating Dense PDFs
Reading seriously on a tablet means fighting the device as much as the text. Notifications creep in, brightness is calibrated for apps rather than paper,…
Zerowriter Ink Is an Open-Source E-Paper Typewriter Built for Writers
Trying to write on a laptop means fighting a machine that is also a notification box, streaming portal, and social feed. Distraction-free apps help, but…
DuRoBo Krono Brings an AI-Powered Pocket ePaper Focus Hub to the US
Trying to read or think on a phone never quite works. Notifications interrupt articles halfway through, feeds wait one swipe away from whatever you were…
Mudita Minimalist Phone and Alarm Clocks Design a Calmer Day at CES 2026
The day often begins and ends with a smartphone, from checking notifications before getting out of bed to scrolling in the dark when you should…
This Phone Concept Stacks a 3.5-Inch LCD Above a 5.2-Inch E Ink Screen
Modern phones have turned into pocket TVs, huge OLED slabs that are great for video and games but terrible for focus. Most E Ink phones…
This E‑Ink Phone Case With An AI Recorder Practically Kills Your Notes And Voice Memos Apps
My ideal phone case has always been two different products at once. Part of me wants a permanent E Ink panel for boarding passes, social…
Xteink X4 is a wallet-sized eReader That Snaps Onto Your Phone
You buy a Kindle or Kobo, load it with books, then leave it on a nightstand while your phone follows you everywhere. Reading apps on…
Badgeware Turns Conference Badges into Wearable Tiny Computers
Conference badges are usually flimsy cardboard, a lanyard, maybe a QR code, and they end up in a drawer once the event wraps up. In…