Those aren't really the pixels, they're the "phosphor" of the display. The pixels are behind the little blobs goo and are little electrical contacts that induce

Those aren't really the pixels, they're the "phosphor" of the display. The pixels are behind the little blobs goo and are little electrical contacts that induce a magnetic field. When the field is one way, the pixels are dark, and vice versa. The field affects the nearby blobs of goo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_paper_(Side_view_of_Electrophoretic_display).PNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_paper_(Side_vie...