There is a real one
on the bench.
A screen on the corner of a desk showing the same numbers the menu bar shows, on paper rather than glass. No backlight, nothing glowing at you at eleven at night, readable from across the room. This is a working concept, not a product: no price, no date, and a fair amount still to figure out.
WorkingThree windows, reset clocks, tokens and sessions underneath.
- Panel
- 7.5″ e-ink, 800×480, no backlight
- Refresh
- Slow and visible, every few minutes, which is all a limit needs
- Reading
- Reflective, so it is legible in sunlight and invisible in the dark
- Source
- The Mac app, over your own network
- Status
- Concept — no price, no date
Readable from across the room
The face carries the state before the number does. Wide awake, heavy lidded, asleep. You can read it while walking back with a coffee.
Nothing on your screen
No window, no overlay, no menu bar tenant. The display sits where your eyes already wander when you stop typing.
Still reads locally
It talks to the Mac app over your own network. Nothing about you takes a trip through anyone's cloud to reach a screen on your own desk.
Paper, not a screen
E-ink holds its image without power and reflects room light instead of shining. It costs you nothing to leave on, and it never becomes the brightest thing in a dark room.
Where it actually stands
The layouts are drawn and the Mac app already knows how to serve them. What is left is the boring half: which panel to build on, how it gets its data without a cable across the desk, and whether this is a product or a weekend that got out of hand. The screens above are rendered from the real numbers the app tracks, not mocked up in a design tool.
Tell me when it is real