I saw this a while back and never understood why you'd want a glasses format for an e-reader. I think most people interested in reading on e-ink just prefer the tablet form factor that's very similar to an actual book.
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I could see it if you wanted a little oasis for yourself. Headphones and these glasses, sit back and escape. But even so, damn that resolution is shitty. And I can get a pretty decent ereader for that much. I can't imagine it will be successful, but I'm wrong more often than right when it comes to guessing what the market wants.
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At least it functions as a nice eye mask when you fall asleep while reading your book instead of the book/e-reader falling on top of your face.
I love e-ink displays but i can't imagine having them 1cm in front of my eyeballs and not being able to see anything else.
This sounds like a very unpleasant way to read a book, but I'm glad it exists.
Absolutely not the target audience for this, like I'm somebody who still buys tons of physical books on top of my eReader/tablet and a big part of the appeal of an e-reader is not being too far removed from the experience of reading a physical book. Also, I cannot imagine having my vision basically blotted out by glasses to read, feel like that would give me a huge sensory freakout.