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  • E Ink’s New Colour E-Paper Looks Almost as Good as LCD Screens

    E Ink’s New Colour E-Paper Looks Almost as Good as LCD Screens

    With the first E Ink devices having debuted almost two decades ago, it’s been a long road transitioning the technology from black and white to colour. But yesterday, E Ink revealed some tantalising details on its latest colour electronic paper panels, Spectra 6, with colour reproduction that looks almost as good as what you can…


  • Injecting An Egg Yolk With Ink Reveals The Embryo Hidden Inside

    Injecting An Egg Yolk With Ink Reveals The Embryo Hidden Inside

    Video: Here’s a neat video showing ink being injected into the “yolk sac artery of 72 hour-old chick embryo to visualise the beating heart and the vasculature”. It’s from Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition which is always a great source for videos that reveal the previously unseen. Watching the ink spread throughout the yolk…


  • How Removing Tattoos With Lasers Works

    How Removing Tattoos With Lasers Works

    Smarter Every Day takes an in-depth look at something super cool: removing tattoos with the help of lasers. The science behind it is fascinating, all the zapping lasers do is basically break down the bigger ink blobs inside your skin and let your body’s white blood cells and liver take care of the rest of…