I'm still waiting for widely available and affordable e-ink displays for tinkerers. I'd love to put one onto a Raspberry Pi to show some information, but it's just too expensive right now.

http://essentialscrap.com/eink/

Those are 6" 800x600 displays for ~$20-30.

Edit: here's a whole list of related models: https://github.com/vroland/epdiy