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“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Founder’s Note
I’ve always been drawn to the interstitial spaces and liminal zones: where ideas have to survive, enjoy, and expand making contact with capital R reality.
E Ink began as a Seussian whiteboard sketch I was told wouldn’t work by the powers that be, I took that challenge and willed it into reality late at night in a borrowed darkroom closet at MIT. It’s now in over a billion devices.
My journey since has taken me through Class 100 cleanrooms in San Jose, dirt-floor factories in rural China, biology wet labs in futuristic Japan, and the noise and chaos of Jakarta and Manila’s street markets.
Cape Fear Labs carries that same drive forward—a workshop for translating contrarian ideas into low-cost, field-deployed systems. Retrofit safety padding that prevents soldier head trauma. Electric repowers that extend the life of bus fleets. Diagnostics that find cancer early, from a few milliliters of urine. Standardized environmental chambers aiming to achieve global reproducibility in model biological organism research. Novel uses for E Ink, 30 years after I conceived and birthed it.
If it can't ship cheap, run dirty, and last outside the lab, it isn't progress, it's a demo. I cut my teeth on those back at the Media Lab in the 90s - they were fun. Ask me about the time I stayed up all night wiring PCBs for a magic trick for Penn & Teller. But I've got half a century under my belt, billions of units shipped - the thrum of the production line is my Ravi Shankar.
Barrett Comiskey, Founder
Work at the Edge
Every project at Cape Fear Labs begins where the world gets noisy, dirty, nonlinear or all three. The lab’s work spans military safety systems, low-cost electric Repower, biobanks for early cancer detection, and imaginative E Ink infrastructure, from dynamic vehicle tags to stadium signage.We design and build for conditions that don’t forgive abstraction: dust, heat, vibration, uncertainty.
The same discipline that carried E Ink from a borrowed darkroom to a billion devices now drives our search for technologies that endure.Cape Fear also backs open biology through the Mosaic Foundation, building reproducibility standards and new discovery tools for the next century of life-science research.
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
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Joseph Conrad
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Founder’s Note
I’ve always been drawn to the interstitial spaces and liminal zones: where ideas have to survive, enjoy, and expand making contact with capital R reality.
E Ink began as a Seussian whiteboard sketch I was told wouldn’t work by the powers that be, I took that challenge and willed it into reality late at night in a borrowed darkroom closet at MIT. It’s now in over a billion devices.
My journey since has taken me through Class 100 cleanrooms in San Jose, dirt-floor factories in rural China, biology wet labs in futuristic Japan, and the noise and chaos of Jakarta and Manila’s street markets.
Cape Fear Labs carries that same drive forward—a workshop for translating contrarian ideas into low-cost, field-deployed systems. Retrofit safety padding that prevents soldier head trauma. Electric repowers that extend the life of bus fleets. Diagnostics that find cancer early, from a few milliliters of urine. Standardized environmental chambers aiming to achieve global reproducibility in model biological organism research. Novel uses for E Ink, 30 years after I conceived and birthed it.
If it can't ship cheap, run dirty, and last outside the lab, it isn't progress, it's a demo. I cut my teeth on those back at the Media Lab in the 90s - they were fun. Ask me about the time I stayed up all night wiring PCBs for a magic trick for Penn & Teller. But I've got half a century under my belt, billions of units shipped - the thrum of the production line is my Ravi Shankar.
Barrett Comiskey, Founder
Work at the Edge
Every project at Cape Fear Labs begins where the world gets noisy, dirty, nonlinear or all three. The lab’s work spans military safety systems, low-cost electric Repower, biobanks for early cancer detection, and imaginative E Ink infrastructure, from dynamic vehicle tags to stadium signage.We design and build for conditions that don’t forgive abstraction: dust, heat, vibration, uncertainty.
The same discipline that carried E Ink from a borrowed darkroom to a billion devices now drives our search for technologies that endure.Cape Fear also backs open biology through the Mosaic Foundation, building reproducibility standards and new discovery tools for the next century of life-science research.
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
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Joseph Conrad
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