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12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle Image: Amazon Your Kindle e-reader isn’t the kind of gadget you upgrade all that often, and you might have one that’s been serving you well for years. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know everything that Amazon’s e-reader can do. Here are some of the lesser-known features and settings you can play around with on your Kindle, from enabling the dark mode to remapping device buttons. Advertisement 1. Use cover art on the lock screen Amazon has seen the light and updated the Kindle software so that you can now use actual...

11 March 2021, 4:18 am EST By Yu-Mo Zhang and his colleagues at Jilin University in Changchun, China, have created one of the thinnest electrochromic e-reader prototypes ever produced. It is even more notable that it can seamlessly transition from complete transparency to displaying words with high quality and color intensity. (Photo : Nick Jones / Unsplash) The Discovery Of Electrochromic Display The e-reader is made from a laser-etched page of words between two glass sheets, about a quarter of a millimeter thick. The page sandwiched between the glass sheets is actually a solution of copper...

Jilin University An ultra-thin glass screen that can smoothly go from transparent to displaying words could one day be used to make e-readers and billboards. The screen is a type of electrochromic display, which turn opaque when an electrical current is applied to them. This technology has already been used in smart glass windows, which can control the amount of solar light passing through them, but many existing electrochromic displays are unable to produce a wide range of colours and often have a low contrast ratio – the measure of clarity, brightness and resolution. Advertisement Now Yu-...

An ultra-thin glass screen that can smoothly go from transparent to displaying words could be used to make e-readers and billboards

Photo: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo If the PocketBook InkPad Color was an attempt to bring the benefits of a tablet’s larger screen to e-readers so ebooks like comics and magazines are easier to read, the Boox Nova 3 Color is an attempt to bring the benefits of an E Ink screen to tablets. The results are a more capable and powerful e-reader, but with a price tag that makes the Nova 3 Color feel like a tablet with limited capabilities. Advertisement The Boox Nova 3 Color tablet is the second device to use E Ink’s new 7.8-inch, second-generation Kaleido color screen technology. PocketBook was t...