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| - | [* black] Peeling up the e-ink display exposes the three backlight LEDs |
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| + | [* black] E-ink, the technology used in [http://bit.ly/10J3REu|many eReaders], works by suspending tiny microcapsules in liquid within a thin film. Each contains positively-charged white particles and negatively-charged black particles, so that adding a positive electric field repels the white particles to the front of the display, while a negative field does the same for the black particles. |
| + | [* black] Creating patterns of different fields at various locations on the film generates text and other figures on the display. |
| + | [* black] Peeling up the e-ink display film exposes the three backlight LEDs. The small display only requires three LEDs to light its e-ink face. |