{"id":3705,"date":"2012-04-08T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:30:38","slug":"amazon-experimenting-with-front-lit-display-for-next-kindle-new-tech-gadgets-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Amazon experimenting with front-lit display for next Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With the display and battery life being such strong selling points, you may be surprised to hear Amazon is experimenting with adding a light source. In fact, Devin Coldewey of TechCrunch has actually seen a prototype new Kindle in action using a front-lit lighting method.<\/p>\n<p>The result? Apparently the E Ink display is lit very evenly and softly. So this isn\u2019t the same type of light you get from a typical tablet LCD unit. He describes it as a \u201cblue-white glow\u201d which may seem a bit peculiar, but could work when just viewing text and on a display lit from the front.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/gadgets\/amazon-experimenting-with-front-lit-display-for-next-kindle-2012046\/\">Amazon experimenting with front-lit display for next Kindle \u2013 New Tech Gadgets &amp; Electronic Devices | Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the display and battery life being such strong selling points, you may be surprised to hear Amazon is experimenting with adding a light source. In fact, Devin Coldewey of TechCrunch has actually seen a prototype new Kindle in action &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[206,565,405],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-amazon","tag-e-ink","tag-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}