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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

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2093 points pabs3 | 5 comments | 14 Nov 24 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.473s | source
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angrygoat ◴[14 Nov 24 12:36 UTC] No.42135621[source]▶
What a beautiful use of technology to uphold someone's personhood, and let them know they are loved, despite (and with regard to) a profound injury.

This reminds me of a desire I've had for a long time: a simple, wall-mountable eInk device that could be configured with a URL (+wifi creds) and render a markdown file, refreshing once every hour or so. It would be so useful for so many applications – I'm a parish priest and so I could use it to let people know what events are on, if a service is cancelled, the current prayer list, ... the applications would be endless. I'd definitely pay a couple of hundred dollars per device for a solid version of such a thing, if it could be mounted and then recharged every month or two.

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1. joseda-hg ◴[14 Nov 24 13:19 UTC] No.42135902[source]▶
I'm in, can we crowdfund something like this?

If eInk wasn't a monopoly this would be 100% a project I'd love to do

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2. ryanckulp ◴[14 Nov 24 18:00 UTC] No.42139062[source]▶
we crowdfunded one this summer and now we ship same-day. :) https://usetrmnl.com
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3. joseda-hg ◴[14 Nov 24 18:05 UTC] No.42139136[source]▶
Doesn't seem like you ship to my region, cool product nevertheless
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4. ryanckulp ◴[14 Nov 24 18:30 UTC] No.42139459{3}[source]▶
ah really?? feel free to email us (team@usetrmnl.com). we've been granted a bunch of EC licenses lately but maybe missed a few country check boxes on our store.
5. IanCal ◴[15 Nov 24 12:38 UTC] No.42146353[source]▶
Not super relevant but your site is super janky for me (chrome, ubuntu). I get a scrollbar for the second part of your site, which then captures scrolling so if my cursor is in the middle of the page and I go down then up I am stuck.

https://streamable.com/sm0oek