There is the famous example of Thaladomide, which was approved by the regulators in the Germany and caused a disaster in birth defects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

US FDA however was skeptical of the safety of the drug and never approved it for sale in US.

It doesn't look like FDA - or, specifically, Frances Oldham Kelsey - had any data or any evidence to suspect something was wrong with thalidomide. Partly it was because the manufacturers hid whatever suspicious data they had, but Kelsey had no way of knowing it - she basically just run out the clock until it so happened that the news about birth defects caused by it started coming in. That seems to have validated the idea that the strategy should be "delay approval as long as possible and request more and more tests for as long as possible". Which, of course, technically makes it safer for the drugs that manage to pass - but the cost is hugely inflated costs and absence of access to many drugs.

Wrong: FDA was approved in the US and is used as an effective cancer drug. We just don't give it to people who would be at risk.

The Daylight tablet is the closest to Playdate display among the tablets listed in the article.

Some people on Reddit speculate the Daylight Computer is also a Sharp screen. Unsure whether memory LCD and IGZO are related as I'm very new to this space (and trying not to fall too deep into the rabbit hole)

The play date screen is beautiful. So is the daylight computer but no colour is just a deal breaker for me unfortunately.

Some charts/diagrams use colours and being unable to understand how the colour is being used is probably going to end up being too annoying in the end for my intended usage even tho I am predominantly looking to read (pdfs and blogs)

For books I still prefer the real thing whenever possible

EDIT source - https://old.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1dw9a7g/daylight_comp...

I ran some Daylight Computer photos from a trip to their factory through Google Lens and it was the Sharp factory in Japan. No doubt.

It seems that they took a certain Sharp screen and simply took off the colour layer. Citation needed.

Check out this Android tablet, which would support running gcc through Termux I think.

https://daylightcomputer.com/

Very nice concept, but I'm afraid this device running on a MediaTek SoC will never run a main line Linux so I expect to see 2-3 years of support.

I would prefer for the device to be inherently hackable and that requires running on a main line kernel.

The device does have white LEDs too. So you can adjust the color temperature. It is just that most of the marketing materials are done to highlight the amber display feature.

I have learned to not buy devices and software for features that are counter to those marketed.

If I bought this there would inevitably be a patch that blocked the blue backlight functionality as a concession to some nonsense like class action lawsuit over the existence of blue light as an option. or some new manager wants to "simplify". or something else.

The brownout prevention hack you mentioned in the pcb design page is really neat!

I got so lucky with that, still can't believe I could work around it!

Any Bluetooth keyboard will work.

Source: I was the chief hw designer for this project.

The tablet does have page turn buttons! There is a side button and a top button. The side button in particular is nice as a page turn button.

Oh great!

Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this product.

Yes - the backlight temperature allows you to adjust it from a pure (albeit on the warmer side) white to pure amber.

Thanks very much for responding. You mentioned backlight, and forgive my ignorance, but is this type of E-paper not front-lit?

It’s not actually normal e-ink, it’s a kind of LCD, that’s why they say e-paper and not e-ink

I think it’s like the kind of LCD you see on calculators and clocks and the original Game Boy, that doesn’t need a backlight to be visible but can have one

Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this device.

The colors do not invert when the backlight is on, which is great because you can turn on only a slight amount of backlight if you need it, and have it blend to the ambient lighting.

It supports 256 levels of grayscale.

The large battery also helps it last longer and accounts for the much more powerful chip compared to the remarkable

You can use an app called Duet Display on it. It works quite well (can’t remember the exact ms latency now)