The Secret behind E-ink Displays - Durability Test!

don't mind me today I'm just getting a little snack before we commence the durability test today we're going to be checking out our very first e-ink tablet called the Kindle scribe is the very first e-ink tablet for both reading and writing and I did buy two of them you know what that means I think it even has a stylus inside which should be pretty interesting to see how that works this video is not sponsored by Amazon even though Kindle is owned by Amazon this video is sponsored by huel but don't worry it takes less than 60 seconds to make a nutritionally complete affordable vanilla shake with 40 grams of plant-based protein it's not just protein either the shake has 27 vitamins and minerals I mean just look at the list of all these nutrients on the back plus no artificial sweeteners heel black is an easy way to maintain and keep track of your nutritional goals I've lost 15 pounds since last June thanks for noticing all thanks to keeping track of my calories and of course my daily 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find them for less than 100 bucks this guy however the Kindle scribe with the stylus costs quite a bit more sitting right around 370. the stylus and power cable are joined together but at that price point we are up in the iPad territory so let's see if the cost is worth it this is my first experience with an e-ink display this large and I guess the main difference between electronic ink and regular IPS or OLED is that e-ink is grayscale and has basically no refresh rate ever unless it's time to turn the page the unrefreshing screen is what gives us a battery life that's calculated in weeks instead of days it comes with 16 Shades of Gray I guess 50 Shades costs extra and it actually does a pretty good job of displaying images in black and white of course the 10.2 inch screen has a density of 300 pixels per inch which is about the same as what we saw in the iPhone 11 so there's pretty solid Clarity plus going into dark mode inverts the colors not only for easy night reading but also some Vision impairments can see white text on black Pages better so I can see this feature being very useful since most regular books are printed black on white the matte screen also reduces glare it does feel like class but we'll have to find out for sure here in a second if I rotate the tablet top to bottom the screen does refresh Itself by not only inverting the page but also inverting the coloring of each pixel quickly before returning back to normal again like a really expensive etch-a-scatch it happens both while reading a book or if you're scrolling through the ebook Library not a bad little unit I can see it being extremely useful for the type of person who wants to carry thousands of books around I was surprised to learn however that even though you might purchase a book from Amazon you don't actually own it you're only buying permission to read the title the title is not actually yours so there is some Merit to just getting a physical copy but then again it all just goes back to how many books you want to fit in your pants everyone's different it's also surprising to see that the match screen is also made from plastic with scratches appearing at a level 3 and deeper grooves at a level 4. it's definitely not glass there is no camera on this unit which is nice the real differentiator from this e-ink e-reader from others is the stylus it's got a removable tip and the ability to take notes not directly on the page itself however but as a small Post-It note type thing that's saved as an icon wherever you're inserting the note pressing the button on the sides allows me to highlight instead of right this would definitely be more useful on PDFs or forms which the Scribe can also do while taking notes however fingers cannot do any of the drawings and I think we should find out why especially since this stylus supposedly never needs to be charged and has no internal batteries of its own how does the screen know where the stylus is at it's all done with very similar technology to what we find in Samsung's S Pen stylus a coil of copper wires around the tip that can accurately be detected by a wire mesh behind the pixels in the far end of the stylus near the digital eraser we find some magnets whose only job is to hold the PIN to the edge of the tablet kind of forgot to show this beforehand so just use your imagination to see the rest of the pin still attached the body of the e-ink e-reader is pretty simple bare metal on the right side and bare metal on the top side I guarantee there's a grandma who's watching right now for the first time and is very confused on the left side we have the USBC Port which you won't be using much since a single charge can last up at three months we also have a metal power button all made with 100 recycled aluminum thumbs up for that nice work Kendall Bottom Of The Scribe is also metal and there are some interesting features on the back little rubber foot pads at Each corner which are actually quite nice very securely attached to the panel and they do a very good job of elevating the reader when it's set down a slightly more quality experience than just having the bare metal rest on a table or desk kind of like built-in coasters foreign about 600 years we went from gutenberg's printing press making books one handset letter at a time to a lightweight Internet connected e-ink e-reader that can instantly pick from 13 million different titles okay technology changes pretty fast this drive is pretty cool and definitely has its place but I don't think that physical books are going anywhere anytime soon I know the biggest question on your mind when clicking on this video is what happens to an electronic ink display during the bin test and let's find out we know that LCDs go black and usually recover oh let's go white and usually don't recover and e-ink well it looks like this e-ink display does nothing under the heat for my lighter there is a slight Ripple of melted plastic on the top but the screen itself is unfazed and undamaged I'm impressed the picture you keep seeing by the way is a sculpture on a Hilltop in Ohio that the author thinks was made by a very Advanced civilization on Earth about 10 000 years ago which got wiped out at the end of the last ice age I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist but this one's actually pretty interesting and with the tablet this then the bin test should also be interesting with the price of an iPad let's hope this Kindle scribe is durable and you gotta admit that was some pretty hefty Flex with some serpent-like curvature yet the e-ink display is still totally functional the frame is a bit crinkly now but no catastrophic damage has occurred so far super impressive bending from the front however yields different results while no physical cracks have appeared it does look like half the display is now unresponsive black and white streaks running down from the right side corners but the left half of the tablet is still displaying text although unresponsive let's find out why taking off the back cover is easy enough no screws or glue to worry about the Dual cell battery takes up most of the real estate inside of this thing all three thousand milliamp hours of it the rest of the guts include the motherboard and a rather thick display apparently this thing is backlit with 35 LEDs that shine through the e-ink to illuminate the pixels at night very similar to the qled technology we see on Samsung TVs but Illuminating grayscale instead of colors separating the outer plastic from the pixels reveal that there is actually quite a bit of glass inside so the screens are crackable even if Glass isn't on the exterior there is one additional layer between us and the pixels which are still amazingly turned on these 16 shades are gray don't mess around apparently when the pixels are flipped to Black or White they stay in that orientation forever even in depth this e-int display is taking its job seriously the words and letters are permanently etched onto the tablet's surface scratching past the layers of pixels we can see a copper mesh that's used to find the stylus regular Kindles that don't have a stylus would also not have this mesh it's very very interesting I hope any grandma is passing by haven't entirely lost their faith in this new generation we do the durability test for science of course and the joy of learning new things and Grandma if you're looking for a much happier non-destructive video I'll link our off-road wheelchair project for kids that we just released last week definitely one of my favorite videos like I mentioned at the beginning I do have an extra Kindle scribed giveaway just be subscribed and leave any comment down below many comment at all I'm curious though when was the last time you sat down and read a book let me know and like always thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around

Channel: JerryRigEverything

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Length: 10min 23sec (623 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 31 2023