Here at Computex 2024, brands such as ASUS likes to show off some of its concept designs of potential features. One concept that caught our eye was ROG Project Dali, and it is actually an interesting, if not wonderful application of e-ink technology on a laptop’s design and chassis.
ROG Project Dali, obviously named after the Spanish surrealist, Salvador Dali, basically puts a 14-inch e-ink panel at the rear of a laptop’s display and in this case, the laptop on the pedestal was an older ROG Zephyrus G14. The images that are displayed via the e-ink panel can vary and in this case, these images can be chosen via the Armoury Crate app.
ASUS basically gives Project Dali three categories to choose from: Curated Designs, Manual Editing, or Tweakable Designs. They’re self-explanatory too: the first houses a catalogue of existing artwork – for the sake of the show, the artwork were pretty much ROG-themed – the second is a create-your-own-design, while the third is something of an AI-based option, where you can select a design and let the system create variations of it.
In hindsight, ROG Project Dali is certainly a far cry from the AniMe Matrix LED panel it introduced all those years ago with the launch of the original Zephyrus G14. Again, not only is it more energy-efficient than the LED panel, it literally doesn’t even take up any power when you power down your laptop, because that is the nature of e-ink.
And because it’s e-ink, your picture choice or artwork, because your personal piece or one of the many pieces specially curated by ASUS, can and will always be in full view to the masses, if you’re the kind of person that loves sharing your taste in art.
Once again, ROG Project Dali is still just that, a project. As it stands, there’s no indication as to when or if ASUS will ever integrate the technology into its future laptops. That said, this is by far one of the most practical applications of e-ink technology on a laptop.
