By Contributing Author
Today technological advancements are pretty much everywhere, and we’re encircled by more and more screens. And this is the case with many marketing and advertising businesses around the world that are currently wondering how they can easily make the most of all these ‘background’ screens.
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Worries, of course, are that screens aren’t good for our eyes, and they may cause little eye stress. Simultaneously a growing number of features on most of these screens – such as 3D depth perception and greater brightness- are usually taking their toll on the eyes and which makes it even tougher for them to sustain focus.
This is the reason why the Amazon Kindle was such a breath of fresh air – a new screen that was truly good for your eyes and you can read the content without worrying about your eye strain. On the other hand, it is also good for the natural environment and the energy bills. But exactly how does this work? Are they better than ‘normal’ monitors? Let’s find out.
How Does an e-Ink Technology Work in Kindle Screens
The fantastic thing about the Amazon Kindle screen is that it does not use light in order to illuminate the pixels, Amazon named this technology an e-ink, (This ink spreads on the screen exactly where the pixels creates an image.
The main reason this is so great is that it does not require light to brighten – which of course means there won’t be any changes in brightness that the eyes need to get used to. This also signifies that reading your Kindle screen is basically just the same as reading a normal paper.
If your eyes are more sensitive to any screen, and in any case, e-ink doesn’t work out, then reading glasses would do the trick, but only when you buy it from any reliable brand. In the realm of eyeglasses and fashion eyewear. No matter if you have different powers or eyesight numbers in each eye, you will be furnished with customized eyewear that will perfectly suit your eyes and hence improve the vision.
New Kindle Paperwhite vs. iPad
The basic problem here is actually displayed technologies such as AppleiPads, smartphones, computers, and televisions all typically use backlighting technologies, which redirects light through a filtration system (Liquid crystal display)and get it straight into your vision. This impact of the light can weaken the veins behind the retina and may cause a macular degeneration disease. Human eyes are not good at looking directly at light (think about how many times you look at the sun directly, a lightbulb, or a fire). That is the key reason why it affects that much for longer time periods.
Using kindle paperwhite for reading ebooks gets over this in the same manner that cave paintings and paper books do. They basically produce the filter (shades and colors) and make it possible for another source of light to jump off of it and contact your vision indirectly. The new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or Nook with GlowLight has taken this concept one step further. This device features a particular source of light that reflects from above the outer layer of the filter, as it is just a reflection of the light contacts indirectly, the light bounces down towards the filters and then it creates a reflection that comes in contact to the eyes.
One reason it took Amazon so long to create this modern technology is that they did not want to add any omnidirectional light above the filtering system, which could impact the reader’s eyes directly.
Reading eBooks on this Paperwhite is just like reading from any paper book in a well-lit room. With the exception of the one thing that is illuminated is the textual content.
The Use Of e-Ink Technology in Other Devices
Some other e-readers, for example, the Kobo also utilizes e-ink technologies in the screens, but it’ll be a while before we start to see e-ink devices and computers. The reason behind this? As not creating its very own light, the e-ink displays have a couple of other slight disadvantages – one is that they take too much time to change the filter and this signifies that it’s impossible they could be able to support games or videos.
The other issue is that they’re currently in grayscale – and the majority of people would prefer to use a colored device and maybe deal with a little bit eyestrain for the majority of their reading tasks.
