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einkbro
A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices.
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My suggestion is somewhat different.
It's that e-ink is a viable display, but that it provides a different set of capabilities which must be recognised in the tools (applications, interfaces) which are used on it. Some of those already exist, others might have to be developed or tweaked. And platforms in which the display endpoint is not predefined (e.g., Web content), consideration of e-ink and other alternative display formats and factors will have to be increasingly considered either be designers or by application developers. Again, EinkBro is an examplar of the latter: an e-ink optimised Web browser with a specific design philosophy informed by the characteristics of e-ink displays. (I've had numerous exchanges with the developer, Daniel Kao, and he gets it.)
https://github.com/plateaukao/browser
Text- and static-graphic-centric presentation works well. High-colour and dynamic displays don't. A large set of traditional text-mode tools (e.g., traditional Unix/Linux userland, and tools inspired by these) work quite well, as do many graphical presentations so long as they respect the properties of the display.
I've reflected a fair bit on the MOAD (mother of all demonstrations), now 54 years in our past. MOAD was based on the principles of high-framerate emissive displays, and virtually all elements shown in the demonstration remain the core elements of present-generation graphical displays, despite the migration from CRT to LED to OLED/Plasma displays. All effectively are emissive and low-latency.
Another alternative would be to adopt different display options. LCD (or transflective LCD) is one option; these work fundamentally by light polarisation, which means that they halve whatever ambient or backlight intensity is provided, greatly reducing apparent contrast.
What might be interesting would be a materials advance in which substances or fluid cells transition between primary colour states, giving the ability to directly create static pixels of a given colour, under some influence --- electric or magnetic influence, perhaps some induced pH state change. If that's a durable shift (e.g., there's a stable state that isn't changed until a new stimulus is applied), then we'd have a new display technology. That might even give a true ink-mixing behaviour, if, say, a given fluid cell or particle fibre might include multiple colour elements which would mix as paint or ink pigments do. Any material scientists know of materials which transition between white and CMYK spectra?
Advantages of E-Ink include not only power but readability in high-ambient light situations, or under normal room lighting rather than requiring an independently illuminated display as with LCD screens.
Depending on how displays are specifically addressed, the possibility of arbitrarily large displays at lower costs might also exist. That ... would be interesting. I have the usual present fear: that these would be appropriated principally for advertising and propaganda on wall- or building-sized form factors.