I'd love to put project plans and day-to-day requirements and lists, as well as status reports on the wall of my office without requiring a projector or TV. This sounds like it might be a viable option for the aesthetically inclined office!
I personally have been literally dreaming of the cheap, huge, high resolution whiteboard, where I can take vast amounts of data (in my case financial) and spread them all over the thing, then annotate as desired. Already I use 2x4k screens to max the amount of graphical grid data I can display simultaneously in chart form. The challenge is to use algorithms to find the interesting bits of the data and highlight them (in my experience, large data sets are usually 99% boring - you're looking for the 1% gems). Still even if the vast amount of data are boring, being able to jump to any piece of it without interruption from any interaction, scrolling, or queries, just a flick of the eye - which large display surfaces enable - is actually hugely valuable for understanding a global big data system. No pause to control an interface - just look, possibly even walk, around a huge wall size version of this.
I hoped that they come up with high resolution, flexible, multi color, large size, touch sensitive, affordable panel(1), but they are into wallpaper business instead.
3M has a number of products for adding touch to surfaces. It can be expensive, though. I would link you to one of them, but their website sucks and I can't actually obtain a good link, other than a top-level for touch products: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Electronics_NA/E...
But I agree with you, I've been disappointed with where this technology has been going, or rather, NOT been going. I'd love to build a small laptop with a completely eInk display.
There was also a 13 inch USB (plenty of bandwidth for low refresh of e-ink) monitor at CES.
There is a ton of pent up demand for larger screen e-ink readers as Sony found out when people outside their target market wanted to buy the 13 inch DPTS1.
Long a staple of science fiction movies, the wall that is also a retina-like display is finally here, even if it's just an initial, minimally viable version.
As adoption grows and the technology improves over time, we can expect ease and cost of application to improve and possibly even match traditional wallpaper.
Architects and interior designers will love this, and I can't wait to see how people transform interior spaces in offices, homes, schools, hospitals...
I don't think this will work for homes, school, hospitals or any place where people and kids can touch it. Eink screens can be scratched and marked. This kind of thing is going to be very hard to maintain.
I mean: it will look amazing for a week or so... and then some kid will draw all over it.
Yes, and if parents taught their kids to respect things, we wouldn't have this issue.
And I also love how people think parents aren't responsible for their kids' actions: if they destroy an expensive item, your insurance company will sue the parents if they have any assets.
It seems like everybody's talking about something different from what I'm looking at. The wall panels seem to have large (palm-sized-ish) cells that can change color on or off. It's cool looking, but it's more of an adjustable pattern than a display. It certainly doesn't look like something that would display text.
Can't wait to see pricing and release dates..