- The Modos Flow is an E-Ink display that is as smooth as a traditional display, because it refreshes at 60Hz.
- The company built several custom microcontrollers to ensure it worked as intended.
- The displays are now in their crowdfunding stage, with the backer’s package starting at $619 for the monochrome variant.
Electronic paper, commonly known as e-paper, has been around for several decades, but its primary use cases have been limited to devices that are feeble in terms of performance, such as e-readers, or physically small, such as smartwatches. Because of how slowly an e-paper refreshes, it has remained far from use cases that can be described using synonyms of “fast.” However, there’s recently been an attempt to change the status quo by a company named Modos, which has built an e-paper display that runs at 60fps and works with virtually any powerful device.
Six years into building a fast E-Ink display, Modos has introduced its first commercial product, the Modos Flow, which uses a 13.3-inch E-Ink Carta 1300 display panel. To ensure paper-like visuals, the display has a high 3200 x 2400 pixels resolution, leading to a 300fpi. It comes with a USB-C port that supports DisplayPort over USB-C. It’s also portable, so you’re not bound to a wall socket.
Source: Android Authority