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angrygoat ◴[] 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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steezeburger ◴[] No.42137028[source]
I'm a backer, but this would probably fit your bill https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/usetrmnl/trmnl-the-e-in...

I wanted the same kind of general eink device, but this is also supposedly super hackable!

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1. konschubert ◴[] No.42145096[source]
There is also this bigger display:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/invisible-computers/e-p...

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2. mwagstaff ◴[] No.42149544[source]
I have the earlier, smaller model of this, and it works well.

I've backed the new, bigger display, which should be shipping soon.