Thread: e-ink and backlighting - a solution
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Old 06-21-2008, 06:17 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Jack B Nimble View Post
eInk panels are opaque -- light does not pass through. Backlighting does not work.
You just haven't tried powerful enough backlighting.

Seriously. Put your hand over a floodlight sometime, you'll be surprised at how much you can see of the internal structure (you may also experience a certain amount of warming... your hand does soak up most of the light). I suspect the same would happen with an eInk display. The problem might be loss of contrast and the fluids boiling off. But it would probably work.
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