Last week, Keith at BIT-101 used a USB-powered microscope to zoom in on the displays of a Kindle, an iPad, and three printed paper samples. Mainly he was just having fun with his new microscope toy, but the results were interesting because they helped illustrate why the Kindle screen feels more like printed paper than a digital display.
If you’re wondering why the Kindle image has such an irregular, pebble-like distribution of dots instead of nicely ordered pixels, it’s due to the microcapsules that make up the display. Here’s a simplified illustration from the E Ink Corporation of how the technology works:
“Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal.” [BIT-101]
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