PaperTab: The Flexible Computer Tablet That Wow’ed CES 2013
PaperTab: The Flexible Computer Tablet That Wow’ed CES 2013 There are lots of differences between printed reading material and the tablets and phones on which most of us consume media these days. One often overlooked difference is, well, flexibility. Tablets must be handled like the Holy Grail, while magazines and books can be shoved into a briefcase or rolled up in a backpack without a care. The PaperTab, a recent showstopper at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, attempts to revolutionize the traditional tablet by incorporating the dynamics of an ordinary sheet of paper. The result is flexible e-paper touchscreen with an efficient operating system that allows apps to interact with each other. The PaperTab, developed at Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs, looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7” plastic display, a flexible touchscreen...