Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of the many, many definitions of electronic paper.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am at the park for research and journalism as you do. So I have this new device. It's called the

Daylight DC1 and it's a tablet obviously but the idea is that it's a different kind of tablet.

It doesn't use a big bright colorful screen like the iPad,

but it's also not an eink screen which has sort of slow refresh rate and doesn't have some of the things that you want from like a smoothly scrolling easy typing

tablet it tries to be a middle ground and I find that middle ground really

interesting I've been using this tablet a lot they really want you to use it

outdoors it's called the daylight.

It comes in this like plush sort of outdoorsy case

instead of like the sleek metallic fabricy thing

you normally get with a tablet.

And it's designed to just be a simpler kind of technology.

And I have a lot of testing left to do with this thing,

but so far it's not that impressive a gadget,

but I still find it fascinating,

because I think this idea that what if instead of totally you know ground up reinventing every kind of

gadget that exists in the world we just tweaked the formula a little bit different

kinds of screens different sizes sizes, different shapes, different fabrics,

and maybe that changes the way that we'll feel about these things and the way that we use them

in more interesting ways than just throw it all the way and try again.

To some extent that is actually what we're going to talk about in this episode.

First we're going to talk about an eink device called the Books Palma that I'm sort of obsessed with.

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