Keith, of tech blog BIT-101, got himself the new USB-microscope. And similar to any nerd with a brand-new fondle, he proposed indicating it t the things around the residence. Happily for us, Keith avoided magnifying a dog’s fleas and instead incited his high-powered eye upon a screens of his identical twin tablets, Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad. As you see in a photos, the closer you get, a some-more engaging things become.

Above have been cinema snapped during “about 26x” (the Kindle is upon a left). So far, so expected, right? The Kindle’s e-ink display looks roughly the same as it does to a exposed eye, although one warn is only how well a iPad’s anti-aliasing functions to keep a content well-spoken, even yet a pixels are obviously visible as jagged squares.

Jack things up to 400x and it gets a total lot weirder. On a left again is a Kindle (400x). It resembles a play of sugar, or during slightest similar to a little ink spattered upon gray paper. As Keith says, it “looks roughly organic”. Compare that to a iPad’s display during 375x, whose pointy edges as well as primary colors look some-more like a 1970s colonnade diversion:

At his readers’ ask, Keith afterwards went upon to snap pictures of ink upon paper, adding newsprint, magazines as well as books to a gallery during the same magnifications. It’s the erotically appealing read. Go check it out.

Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal [BIT-101 around Hacker News]