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There’s nothing on my walls. As a renter, part of that is practical, as anything I put up there is likely to leave its indelible mark despite my best efforts to the contrary — and ding my security deposit accordingly — but a hugely contributing factor is also my indecision. If I’m not absolutely in love with what I’m hanging up, why expose myself to that headache?
But I’m also not a monster who actually wants to live in a featureless void, and do look to smart solutions for filling my space with color and form that have the benefit of being a bit more ephemeral, satisfying my itch for novelty while keeping their physical impact minimal.
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Projectors represent a fantastic option there, turning that blank space into a giant canvas at a moment’s notice, and always being ready with fresh content. But they also carry with them some major limitations, from struggling with brightness on sunny days, to limited placement options unless you’re going with a pricier ultra-short-throw projector.
What about just mounting a TV on the wall and using that as my art fix? Displays like Samsung’s The Frame series are designed to accommodate exactly this need, offering aesthetics that actually feel right at home next to traditional artwork, while being able to change what they’re showing as fast as my attention span wanes.
The Frame solves that daytime visibility problem, but both screens and projectors suffer from another big obstacle: power consumption. Even if money’s no object, it’s tricky to justify the energy expenditure of an active display solution for something like wall art.
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So why not bring the mobile world’s favorite low-power, high-visibility display tech to my living room wall: electronic paper? That’s exactly what InkPoster is doing, blowing up the sort of screens we love on E Ink tablets to a size suitable for framing. This year at IFA 2025 in Berlin, I got to check out InkPoster’s lineup of digital frames, and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed by how well the idea works — if not a little intimated by the pricing.
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