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Any plans to sell just the display?


It's interesting that Anjan compared the display tech to Pebble, because selling off the company instead of just the IP is where Pebble completely failed consumers. Pebble had something incredibly special, and then Fitbit bought Pebble and (for reasons I don't know) immediately killed all their projects and shelved all their tech. In a different reality, Anjan would have said, "Think of it as a Godzilla sized Fitbit watch with a decade of improvement". Selling just the screens seems like the obvious play here


The Pebbles display wasn't Pebbles own tech, they used off-the-shelf MIP LCDs from Sharp. You can still buy them and they're still used in more utilitarian wearables, e.g. from Garmin, and in the Playdate.

Sharp doesn't make anything tablet-sized though, so that's not what OP is using.


They do have 5" and 31.5" reflective displays though, they call them Reflective IGZO Displays.


https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider if you're interested in DIY see here




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