reMarkable 2 Is The World’s Thinnest Tablet, Feels The Closest To Pen On Paper
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Even if you’re a little knackered by the digital life, here’s some tech you can get behind. reMarkable 2, the world’s slimmest tablet, is a minimalist canvas for sketching, note-taking, and reading, with the closest feel to paper possible.
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The e-paper tablet builds upon the original cult-favorite reMarkable in 2017, but comes with a revamped, extra-slim design, measuring at just 0.19 inches-thick. In comparison, the iPad Pro has a thickness of 0.23 inches.
The original tablet has been described to be comparable with Sony’s Digital Paper Tablet, with a Marker stylus deemed as an affordable contender to the Apple Pencil.
The reMarkable 2 takes aesthetic inspiration from traditional notebooks, with a chrome band on the left. While this indicates you’re meant to hold it with your left hand and work with your right, the company assures lefties won’t miss out with a left-handed mode approved by its left-handed colleagues.
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The highlight is, of course, how papery the interface is made to feel. reMarkable says this adeptness had never existed in the market, and it spent the last few years working on its software and hardware to ensure the voltages and electrical currents of the display would be specifically controlled to each individual pixel, “millions at a time.”
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This means there’s almost no lag time when you use the stylus on the tablet. While pen and paper have zero lag time, reMarkable 2 runs close with a 40ms delay, allowing for a much smoother ink flow.
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A great perk is the tablet’s added ability to let you save articles from the web for offline markups. Further, you can also convert handwriting to text to turn your visions into plans.
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reMarkable’s updated magnetic Marker stylus, the Marker Plus, comes with an end-cap eraser built with the help of Wacom. However, it’s US$50 more expensive than the regular version, and is priced at US$99.
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The splurge for the pen might be worth it if you’re looking at its genuine feel; the eraser’s sensor was designed to replicate a real eraser on paper.
The reMarkable 2 is open for preorders at US$399, with a free Marker and folio case thrown in for early birds. That’s almost half the price of the original reMarkable, which was sold at US$700.
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[via TechCrunch, video and images via reMarkable]
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