cool – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:31:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Kindle and the iPad at 400x /College/translation/threepercent/2010/08/17/the-kindle-and-the-ipad-at-400x/ /College/translation/threepercent/2010/08/17/the-kindle-and-the-ipad-at-400x/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:35:16 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2010/08/17/the-kindle-and-the-ipad-at-400x/ This is really nerdy and cool . . . Over at Keith decided to play around with his new USB microscope by seeing what various print-related things looked like blown up to 400x.

First up, the Kindle:

As he says, this looks “almost organic at high magnification.” Much, much different from the iPad:

That looks like something out of Tron or my old Atari . . . And last but not least, a traditional, printed book:

Interesting . . .

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