PaperTab: prototype tablet with a flexible 10.7-inch ePaprer display



    Plastic Logic, Intel and Queen's University of Great Britain showed joint development. This is a new tablet with ePaper flexible display. The new tablet, PaperTab, still exists only as a prototype, but this is a real prototype, not a rendered concept. The developers set themselves the goal of creating a display that would look like paper, and creating the user’s feeling as if we were working with paper.

    Image quality is quite high, but only in gray tones. The tablet can be used both as a stand-alone device and as a regular sheet of paper. In other words, if you have several such devices, you can assemble them into something like a notebook or notepad. The display is touch-sensitive, so working with all of this is quite convenient.

    Separate sheets-tablets can also be laid out on the table, making sheets of a larger format (A3 and above). This feature may come in handy when evaluating, for example, a drawing. One application can be displayed on the screen at a time. For example, on one sheet - a document that we are reading at the moment, on another sheet - a map, on the third - a browser. Elements can be dragged (regular drag and drop) from one “sheet” to another.

    As already mentioned, only the prototype is ready now, and it is not entirely clear when the technology will hit the market, and whether it will hit at all. But, in any case, this is a great example of what work with documents may look like in the near future.



    The prototype is based on the Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge platform, and with sensors that allow each sheet to be oriented relative to the position of the other sheets.

    via Laptop Magazine

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