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Daylight Computer: Meaningless
Daylight offers empty promises to be the tech’ company of tomorrow
There has been some hype recently about the release of a new small tablet computer by a California-based startup called Daylight. Daylight’s first product, the DC-1, is ‘a new kind of computer, designed for deep focus and wellbeing’.
The DC-1 is a monochrome tablet, with an amber frontlight. Imagine a Kindle but orange. Now, imagine that same Kindle but without the janky animations whenever you touch the screen. Instead, imagine fluid animations like page turns, panning around or zooming into articles. It comes with a stylus and a furry sleeve. It has rounded corners. It’s made of (what looks like) soft plastic.
The tablet runs a custom version of Android (of which we know very little about), has a screen that operates at 60fps, with no PWM flicker and a 190ppi resolution. Some canny folks online have found out that the device has a 2.2ghz processor and 8GB of RAM. While the PPI resolution of the screen is not particularly appealing, these specs are quite good for a tablet of this type. And, you know, they should be: this device costs $729.
