For the most part, what comes to mind when you think about e-ink displays are the amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook- brighter and more

Now there are new competitors on the block a company called daylight computer (As shared by 9to5google) recently announced Daylight DC105, a 1-inch Android tablet with a screen that the company calls Live Paper

Live paper displays are monochrome screens that do not produce blue light and are widely blamed for being bad for sleep and overall health Many smartphones now offer the option to turn off the blue light, and companies like Gunnar sell glasses designed to block the blue light

Daylight DC1 is marketed as a healthier alternative to bright tablets that produce blue light, but it's not that it doesn't emit light itself Tablets emit a "pure amber" light according to daylight, which seems to be free of the PWM (pulse width modulation) flicker found in other displays

Amazon and others have made attempts with suitable e-ink tablets, but most e-ink displays are best used on tablets Here are some of the reasons why we prefer to read comics on the iPad than Kindle  According to Daylight, DC1 runs on a custom Android OS called sol:OS It is intended to be minimally distracting, with notifications turned off by default The company advertises that the goal of the Daylight tablet is to reduce "addiction" to screens and phones However, the tablet is designed to run regular Android apps and has pre-installed apps like Audible, Kindle, and Google Docs

The tablet comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, plus a MediaTek Helio G99 chipset with an 8,000mAh battery Its battery, coupled with a minimal operating system, may mean that this tablet may be for multiple days on a single charge

The tablet also comes with a passive Wacom stylus You can pay for the light DC1 today, but it seems that the company is releasing the tablet in batches729 The first 3 have already sold out, and as of this writing, wave4 will not ship until 2024-11

Daylight was founded by Stanford graduate Anjan Katta and from what we have collected, he has been working on this device for over 6 years His goal at Daylight computer is to make a "healthier" computer, and in various interviews, Katta said he wants his device to fight eye fatigue and distractions while redefining his relationship with gadgets

Over the years, he has said in interviews that the devices Daylight makes would "be designed for writers, thinkers and knowledge workers""A lot of the podcasts we've found him talking about are either adjacent to crypto or about talking to "eclectic" thinkers in particular

Based on the various podcast interviews we can find about Katta, DC1 is not the ultimate goal of the company Katta wants to see live paper displays on all kinds of devices such as monitors, laptops and watches

Is Daylight DC1 a flash of pot technology or will we see a wave of live paper equipment in the future? It will be interesting to see how this device will work if it actually falls into the hands of people