Here's a 10.7-inch flexible screen as
thin as sheet of paper that is believed to be your laptop replacement
within the next five years. The PaperTab is powered by the second
generation Intel Core i5 Processor.
We've been
hearing about flexible displays in the works for quite sometime. While
major players take their time to launch a smartphone/tablet/laptop with
flexible display in the retail market, researchers at Queen's University
in Canada in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs
have come up with a tablet screen that is as thin as a sheet of paper
and can be twisted and dropped without damage. The 'revolutionary'
screen is believed to replace your laptop in next five years.
Dubbed as the PaperTab, the screen is
quite flexible having high-resolution 10.7-inch plastic display
developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and is powered by
the second generation Intel Core i5 Processor.
"Plastic Logic's flexible plastic
displays allow a natural human interaction with electronic paper, being
lighter, thinner and more robust compared with today's standard
glass-based displays," says Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Plastic Logic.
Researchers are also planning to showcase the screen at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas. They have already showed off the concept for a new
desktop having sheets of paper for each app instead of a traditional
screen with Windows. Researchers believe users can have several
interactive displays or PaperTabs rather using several using several
apps or Windows on a single display. The screen also be used for e-books
as users simply needing to bend the screen to turn the page.
"Using several PaperTabs makes it much
easier to work with multiple documents," said Roel Vertegaal, Director
of Queen's University's Human Media Lab.
Intel believes the tech could replace
the traditional screen altogether. “Within five to ten years, most
computers, from ultra-notebooks to tablets, will look and feel just like
these sheets of printed color paper,” says Ryan Brotman, Research
Scientist at Intel.
The developers claim the screen could
even replace paper altogether. “PaperTab can file and display thousands
of paper documents, replacing the need for a computer monitor and stacks
of papers or printouts,” say researchers.
“Unlike traditional tablets, PaperTabs
keep track of their location relative to each other, and the user,
providing a seamless experience across all apps, as if they were
physical computer windows.”
“For example, when a PaperTab is placed
outside of reaching distance it reverts to a thumbnail overview of a
document, just like icons on a computer desktop. When picked up or
touched a PaperTab switches back to a full screen page view, just like
opening a window on a computer.”
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