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The Paul Truesdell Podcast

The Paul Truesdell Podcast

Welcome to the Paul Truesdell Podcast. Two Pauls in a pod. Featuring Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger. So, what's the gig? Individually or collectively, Paul and Paul sit down and chat predominately at the Truesdell Professional Building and record frequently. They explain a few things about how life works before time gets away. They connect the dots and plot the knots, spots, and ops with a heavy dose of knocks, mocks, pots, rocks, socks, and mops. Confused? Then welcome aboard! You see, Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger enjoy telling complex stories that are always based on business, economics, and forecasting while having fun, laughing, and being among like-minded men, women, and children from Earth, Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune. Individually and jointly, Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger, coupled with Team Truesdell, have been there and done it. If you enjoy front porch philosophers who take deep dives and connect the dots, while drinking coffee during the day and a whiskey after five, welcome.

It is a true pleasure to have you onboard.

This is, The Paul Truesdell Podcast.

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Unknown Speaker 0:00
We are back, and the reason why we had taken a pause for more than a few weeks is that we wanted to adjust what it is we're doing so that, because of our schedules, which both went nuts, we can basically do the podcast in a variety of different locations. People to do it basically anymore. I had a gentleman in the office the other day, and he had a remarkable tablet, I believe. Have you done any research on those things? I don't even know what you're talking about. Remarkable is where it's only writing. It is like E paper, and it's really ultra thin, and it's not connected to the internet in any way, shape or form. It's not like an iPad. Interesting,

Unknown Speaker 0:51
yeah, I may have heard about that fairly recently. It's the name. Sounds familiar, but yeah, is it E Ink only? It's E Ink only, yeah, okay, yeah, I think I saw something. It's actually really clever for me. It will never replace an iPad, but what I was looking at it is that it's really ultra crazy thin and his leather notebook and how he was taking notes. And I asked him a little bit about it. He said he liked it more than the iPad, because he's in business and he's always making notes, and if he needs to grab anything off the internet, he just grabs his phone real quick and looks at it. Yeah, that makes sense. I can I can see using a tablet, a regular like iPad, and the same time. That's my point. It's funny, because I'm sitting there with my iPad and my legal pad, sure, and he's were sitting there with his

Unknown Speaker 1:45
I think it was remarkable. It could have been some another brand, because there's several of there. But do you remember when you know it's gonna be several decades now, when you were when I started talking about E paper, and it was the death of newspapers? Yeah, yeah, I do. And what I didn't understand then, which I still think, is it's a viable product. We were down, I think your mother and I were down in Nevis. So this would've been about 1995 I think it's 95 sounds about right. And back then, you know, they didn't have internet, like they have a day and all that. We used to get a, we were on vacation for like, two or three weeks down there, and they had a they got a fax machine. They had a fax machine, and they would photocopy headline news from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and it was just kind of a, yeah, you know something, people today wouldn't have an appreciation. No, of course not. And I

Unknown Speaker 2:45
say the word VCI or CDs, people, even people today, don't even know what a CD is. Anyhow,

Unknown Speaker 2:54
I always thought that you would have like a newspaper where you could actually turn the paper and that the print would be there and you would recharge it. Yeah, always thought that would been an interesting device. Anyhow, that's, I'll just start off with that for today that I thought it was, you know, it's one of those things to think about. So that's kind of a goofy way to start off our talk. Let's, let's go to the elephant in the room. I wanted to say something about that. The thing that's interesting about the E paper stuff is that while that concept is, at this point, I think, pretty close to being viable, or at least some version of it, where your entire,

Unknown Speaker 3:34
you know, basically, you have, like, a newspaper size, or, you know, front page of a newspaper size, like E Ink display. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 3:42
you're not going to have multiple pages just due to the logistics of how the device has to work. But it took a long time for E Ink to get to the point where it was capable of it took a long time to get the E paper so that it was capable of quick enough changes that it wasn't annoying and that you could things like writing on it like you're describing with the remarkable and some of these other devices. In the past, they were really great for reading only consuming information, but now they're at the screen is able to refresh fast enough that it's usable as a device you interact with, maybe one button press every second. Or,

Unknown Speaker 4:25
you know, back in the day the Kindles were the created a market for the device, or that that tech, and it's despite seeing fewer and fewer E Ink displays, at least in my day to day, the technology continues to march on, and new and interesting applications keep coming up for it, which I think is good. Well, you know, yeah, the Kindle is was originally designed, I think, pretty much for just reading. Yeah, absolutely. Do they even have a I don't know. Yes, it can, you can write on it now, no, no, but they still exist. Okay, so the Kindles out there is for reading, my understanding, on.

Unknown Speaker 5:00
These things, you can also upload all your ebooks and everything else so you have, yeah, I don't, I don't know how the software works on those I just know that you can write on it and it's responsive enough that it's useful. Because, you know, for for those who don't understand how the technology works, you know your regular screen requires a constant battery charge to or a positive charge to keep this the pixel, or in the case of OLED, lit, or in the case of LED, you know, it's keeping the actual LED array lit and projecting something. But then there's also a backlight behind Julie is, you know, forcing the light through the charged pixels? Well, there's no question

Unknown Speaker 5:44
where E paper, it's a bunch of charged cells that you are turning them on and off once so it stays on or stays off. So it doesn't require a constant you know, charge of doesn't take it doesn't require a constant stream of electricity to keep the image on the screen, which is how, for example, a version of that technology is in my watch. That is how it can get, you know, on battery conserving mode, like 45 days of runtime, despite it being a Bluetooth connected, wireless, GPS enabled smartwatch. So, you know, it's, it's substantially more battery conserving compared to your traditional screen methods. So your devices need way less power. They can be way thinner. You can achieve things like what we were talking about with the newspapers, where you have, you know, potentially, like a flexible little screen that's super ultra thin, and the electronic guts are in, you know, something that's the size of a, you know, a quarter, you know, yeah, you know, years ago, one of our software techs was saying that everything was going to be this one you had, remember the palm and Palm Pilot and all those devices, and they were only for data management. They kind of tried to get ...