- The e-ink display offers fully-fledged customization to its users.
- The e-ink display doesn’t tax the laptop’s battery and even displays the artwork without it.
- It would be cool to see more and more laptop manufacturers adapt to this concept.
Customizing the tech stuff you own is fun and a way to make them look distinguishable. I do it whenever I change my gaming laptop or mobile phone, as it’s easy to do so on them. Until now, we could only customize laptops using stickers or custom skins, whereas phones also offer a case option besides the custom skin.
Sure, the stickers and skins are a great way to add some character to your laptop, but they’re not as reliable. They get worn out over time, and dealing with the leftover adhesive is a hassle. This is where a new idea for customization is needed, and Asus has introduced a concept called Project Dali at Computex 2024 for what could be the next step in laptop customization.
Asus’s Project Dali
From what we have seen so far at Computex 2024, Asus seems to be taking laptop customization to the next level. Asus told us that their Project Dali concept is going to allow users to customize their laptops with just a few clicks on their trackpads and be done with it in a few seconds.
Your laptop’s lid will be the one to display the change, as there’s an e-ink display installed, and it is responsible for showing off whatever artwork you decide to place there.
The Whole Process
The Project Dali concept is currently being tested on the Asus Zephyrus G14 laptops, which have a 12″ e-ink display on their back instead of a flat and boring lid. This 12″ display features a six-color combination and Spectra 6 display technology to process and showcase the custom designs and pictures to the user. It takes about 20 seconds for the image of your choice to be completed, and the resulting image is vibrant and of high quality.
You can control and set the images through Asus’s proprietary application made for this. Which has several stock images stored; however, you can even use AI-generated images or ones from your gallery too. Not only this, as per Asus, the e-ink display doesn’t draw a considerable amount of power, and even if the laptop’s battery dies, the image would still be visible.
The Repercussions
Since the laptop is going to have an e-ink display on its lid, it does raise concerns about the fragility of the overall laptop. We can’t say for sure right now as it’s still in the concept phase, but if it’s going to be a real thing, Asus has to come up with a protective layer for the display. So, it doesn’t break or lose pixels so often. Because, at the end of the day, it’s still a display slapped to the laptop’s back.
The Concept Is Impressive
Even with all the repercussions in mind, the idea is still very cool and shouldn’t be limited to just gaming laptops. It would be more interesting to see this concept on creator laptops like Asus’ ProArt series, so the creators can take advantage of the additional display on their laptops. Unfortunately, we do not have a release window yet for this concept to become a reality.
And we can only hope that it doesn’t get scrapped and forgotten forever, as it could prove to be a useful feature. Moreover, laptops with multiple displays already exist, so I don’t see any excuse why this one can’t make it into the real world.
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Moiz Banoori, with a decade of experience in gaming and tech journalism and a degree in journalism, is a notable figure in the industry. He has contributed to various esteemed platforms, showcasing his expertise in both reporting and opinion writing.
