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The Daylight Tablet Returns Computing to Its Hippie Ideals
Anjan Katta thinks computers and the tech industry became too corporate and straitlaced—so he invented a tablet with a zippy monochrome screen that’s usable outdoors.
“It’s a fat piece of paper,” he says, “For all intents and purposes, it’s an analog object that happens to have digital magical capabilities.” But the E Ink technology that powers the Kindle couldn’t really support the fast responses and rich dynamic graphics that Katta had in mind. (By the way, this is a big week for minimalist displays, as the French company Ledger finally shipped Stax, the well overdue credit-card-sized hardware wallet meant to safely store currency, NFTs, and other digital goods with unprecedented ease. “They’re like, ‘This is so hard to do on so little budget.’ I think they invested because this needs to exist in the world.” One investor joked that a single employee of Humane, the AI hardware company founded by Apple veterans that has raised more than $200 million, has more experience than all of Katta’s team combined.
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