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Exploring the Analog-Digital Hybrid: The Freewrite Traveler Ghost Edition

Why do we live in a convenient digital age and crave the inconvenient analog? I like paperbacks that are easier to flip through than e-books, and I prefer LPs that play right in front of me rather than streaming. I think that’s why products like this appear. Freewrite Traveler, which combines the uncomfortable romance of analog and the convenience of digital, was released as a transparent ghost edition.

Freelight Traveler is a portable word processor created exclusively for writing. This is a product that was first developed by a place called Astro House via Kickstarter in 2016. In 2018, the company released the Freelight Traveler with increased portability and recently released the Ghost Edition of the same model.

This product is foldable and portable like a laptop, with a 4.75-inch e-ink display on the top and a QWERTY keyboard on the bottom. When folded, the dimensions are 288mm x 128mm x 24.7mm, about half the size of a typical laptop.

It excludes any particular functions and is used only for writing via keyboard. Instead, it’s smaller and lighter than a laptop (weighs around 700g), so it’s easy to carry around, and the e-ink display makes it easy on the eye and, best of all, you don’t have to worry about getting distracted while browsing. the net. It is said that the average concentration time of modern people is only 3 minutes. When doing something on a PC or smartphone, things tend to go astray, but with Freelight that doesn’t happen.

Wi-Fi is available, but it’s only used for file transfer, and you can back up files to Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive. Also interesting is the 4-week battery capacity, assuming 30 minutes of use per day. Charging can be done with a USB-C type cable.

The Freelight Traveler Ghost Edition, which began life as transparent, quickly sold out as soon as it was released. The price was $599, which was $100 more than the regular Traveler, but it seems there were quite a few people who took the writing seriously. If you want to focus solely on writing, what better tool is there?

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