I can’t help but wonder if the benefits of e-ink are as good in the format of goggles/glasses. I’m skeptical, for sure, but it is an interesting form factor. Also a interesting decision that they work with your phone, so the glasses don’t need to have much on board storage. Would anybody here use something like this? Definitely seems ultra-niche.
I saw this a while back and never understood why you’d want a glasses format for an e-reader. I think most people interested in reading on e-ink just prefer the tablet form factor that’s very similar to an actual book.
I could see it if you wanted a little oasis for yourself. Headphones and these glasses, sit back and escape. But even so, damn that resolution is shitty. And I can get a pretty decent ereader for that much. I can’t imagine it will be successful, but I’m wrong more often than right when it comes to guessing what the market wants.
smut.
At least it functions as a nice eye mask when you fall asleep while reading your book instead of the book/e-reader falling on top of your face.
This sounds like a very unpleasant way to read a book, but I’m glad it exists.
Absolutely not the target audience for this, like I’m somebody who still buys tons of physical books on top of my eReader/tablet and a big part of the appeal of an e-reader is not being too far removed from the experience of reading a physical book. Also, I cannot imagine having my vision basically blotted out by glasses to read, feel like that would give me a huge sensory freakout.
Low-resolution ugly text, uncomfortable, awkward to use, sold by an unknown company, and very expensive. What’s not to like?
I love e-ink displays but i can’t imagine having them 1cm in front of my eyeballs and not being able to see anything else.
