If you are new to Amazon Kindle, I suggest you go to a high street shop and try one. You will be amazed with the e-ink technology. I wasn’t a big fan of Kindle until I have seen one in real life and bought one immediately.
E-ink is an Electronic Paper Display technology that is created and currently manufactured by E Ink Corp. located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They explain their technology as below:
“The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. In one incarnation, each microcapsule contains positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in a clear fluid. When a positive electric field is applied, the white particles move to the top of the microcapsule to become visible to the reader. This makes the surface appear white at that location. At the same time, an opposite electric field pulls the black particles to the bottom of the microcapsules where they are hidden. By reversing this process, the black particles appear at the top of the capsule, which now makes the surface appear dark at that location.
- Legend: 1 upper layer. 2 transparent electrode layer. 3 transparent micro-capsules. 4 positively charged white pigments. 5 negatively charged black pigments. 6 transparent oil. 7 electrode pixel layer. 8 bottom supporting layer. 9 light. 10 white. 11 black.
The technology has already been utilised by Amazon Kindle and Sony E-reader devices. The new E-ink technology, Tritron, is already out and will be probably used with the next generation Kindle.
