Coloration E Ink in its present state requires a complete lot of compromises, as we have discovered when reviewing units like reMarkable’s Paper Pro or Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, together with washed-out shade, low refresh charges, and a grainy look that you aren’t getting with common black-and-white E Ink. However that is not stopping gadget producers from exploring the expertise, and at this time, Onyx Worldwide has introduced that it has a $1,900 shade E Ink monitor you could hook up with your PC or Mac.

The Boox Mira Pro is a 25.3-inch monitor with a 3200×1800 decision and a 16:9 facet ratio, and it builds on the corporate’s earlier black-and-white Mira Professional screens. The Verge reports that the display makes use of E Ink Kaleido 3 expertise, which might show as much as 4,096 colours. Each picture high quality and refresh fee will fluctuate based mostly on which of the monitor’s 4 presets you utilize (the location is not particular in regards to the precise refresh fee, however does observe that “E Ink screens’ refresh velocity isn’t as excessive as standard screens’, and elevated velocity will lead to extra ghosting.”)

The monitor’s ports embrace one full-size HDMI port, a mini HDMI port, a USB-C port, and a DisplayPort. Its default stand is greater than a bit harking back to Apple’s Studio Display, nevertheless it additionally helps VESA mounting.

Onyx Worldwide’s lineup of Boox units normally focuses on Android-powered E Ink tablets, which the corporate has been constructing for over a decade. These are notable principally as a result of they mix the advantages of E Ink—textual content that is simple on the eyes and lengthy battery life—and entry to a number of bookstores and different content material sources through Google Play, relatively than tying you to at least one producer’s ecosystem as Amazon’s Kindles or different devoted e-readers do.