Wednesday 9 January 2013
PaperTab: Revolutionary Paper-Thin Flexible Tablet
Plastic Logic has unveiled PaperTab, a flexible tablet computer that bends like a sheet of paper. The
wafer-thin 10.7-inch touchscreen device was developed in conjunction
with Intel and Queen's University and is powered by the chip-maker's
Core i5 processor. PaperTabs are designed to be used in numbers, with one for each app in
use, rather than having multiple tabs open on a single device. Documents
can be shared between PaperTabs over a wireless network or by touching
them together. "Using several PaperTabs makes it much easier to
work with multiple documents," said Roel Vertegaal, Director of Queen's
University's Human Media Lab. "Within five to ten years, most
computers, from ultra-notebooks to tablets, will look and feel just like
these sheets of printed color paper." Commands are carried out on PaperTab through bend and swipe gestures,
and multiple devices can be placed in close proximity to create a larger
display area. "Plastic Logic's flexible plastic displays are
completely transformational in terms of product interaction," said
Plastic Logic CEO Indro Mukerjee. "They allow a natural human
interaction with electronic paper, being lighter, thinner and more
robust compared with today's standard glass-based displays. This is just
one example of innovative revolutionary design approaches enabled by
flexible displays." Numerous other technology manufacturers, including Samsung, are experimenting with flexible hardware. Watch a video introducing PaperTab below: (digitalspy)
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