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Pair over Wi-Fi
Power it on, open the app, and join it to your network with a short code. No account to wrangle.
Newsboard · an e-ink desk newspaper by Inkmere
The news,
set in ink.
A machined-aluminium panel that composes the day’s front page and quietly redraws it in real ink, about every ten minutes.
First run on Kickstarter · early bird $250
- No glow
- No feed
- No notifications
The same object, every way round.
There is no back that was left as an afterthought. The aluminium is finished on every face, the seams line up, and the wedge stand is cut from the same body. Turn it over and it stays the same considered object.
Five views · one machined body
Machined, not moulded.
Every Newsboard is cut from a single block of 6061 aluminium on a CNC mill. A dense, cool shell that shrugs off a lifetime on a desk, machined in one piece so nothing creaks or flexes.
The unit in these photographs is real: one of the first milled shells, anodised and running on my desk today.
6061 aluminiumCNC-machinedOne block
Anodised, not painted.
After the mill, the shell goes into an anodising bath. Current grows the surface of the aluminium into a layer of hard oxide, and the finish is locked inside that layer. It is grown out of the metal rather than sprayed over it.
Paint chips and coatings wear through. An anodised finish is part of the part, so the natural silver stays exactly as it is.
Type II anodiseSealed oxideNatural silver
The whole front page, in real ink.
It is composed in the cloud and drawn on the panel the way a paper is set: type and rules on warm white, held still until the news itself moves on.
- Lead story
- The day’s biggest story, with its own photograph.
- Sidebar
- Two shorter stories set alongside the lead.
- Six-story grid
- The rest of the front page, tidily set.
- Two-point summaries
- Every headline distilled to two plain bullets.
Set up once, then leave it alone.
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Compose your edition
Pick your sections, outlets, and the typeface you like to read in. Add a watchlist if markets are your thing.
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Set it on your desk
Stand it where you’d keep a photo. From then on it quietly redraws the page as the news moves, and waits.
Ink doesn’t switch off.
No dock, no charging ritual, no app to open in the morning. It stands at the edge of your desk on one USB-C cable and holds the day’s front page the way a clock holds the time.
When the room goes dark, the page stays. There is nothing to wake in the morning; it is simply there, the way it was last night.
Specifications.
- Display
- 7.8″ electronic ink
- Active area
- 119 × 159 mm
- Resolution
- 1872 × 1404
- Palette
- 16 levels of grey
- Case
- CNC 6061 aluminium
- Processor
- ESP32-S3
- Dimensions
- Measured at first-run QA
- Weight
- Measured at first-run QA
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz
- Edition cadence
- About every 10 min
- Backlight
- None, reflective
- Power
- USB-C, always on
Private by design.
It reads to you, never about you.
No camera, no mic
The panel only ever displays. There’s nothing on it that can see or hear you. By design, not by setting.
Just public headlines
It fetches public news over your own Wi-Fi to compose the page. It never records what you read or how long you linger.
No ads, no tracking
Nothing on the panel is selling to you or profiling you. No advertising, no trackers, no analytics phoning home.
Encrypted control
Pairing and your settings travel over encrypted HTTPS through the relay, kept private between you and your panel.
The maker
Every front page has a byline. Here’s mine.
I’m Dennis Ng. Inkmere is one person: me, a soldering iron, a 3D printer for prototypes, and a stubborn idea about how news should sit on a desk. I was raised in Singapore and I build every Newsboard here. The shells are milled and anodised to my drawings by specialist workshops, and every board is soldered, assembled and tested at my own desk before it ships to yours.
The company in the footer is just the paperwork; the person is right here. If you write to me, it’s me who answers.
The price
Where the money goes.
It isn’t cheap, and I’d rather tell you why than pretend otherwise. Almost nothing about it is off the shelf.
- Machined, not moulded
- The body is cut from solid 6061 aluminium and Type II anodised. That costs far more than a moulded plastic case, and it is the reason it feels the way it does.
- Made by hand
- Every unit is assembled and tested by one person, in a small batch. There are none of the economies of scale a factory line would bring.
- Quality components
- Inside sits the 7.8″ e-ink panel, an ESP32-S3, and the PCB and connectors, all in a machined body with the wedge stand cut from the same block.
- Design and software
- The price also buys the work you don’t see: the design itself, and the software and cloud renderer that compose your front page.
The first run
Put the morning paper back on your desk.
Early bird $250 · $300 after the first run · news service included
I’m making the first run by hand, and it’s small. Leave your email and I’ll let you know the moment the Kickstarter opens.