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

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

The image quality is high enough, but - only in shades of gray. The tablet can be used as a standalone device, and as a normal sheet of paper. In other words, if you have several such devices, you can assemble them into something like a notebook or notebook. The display is touch, so working with all of this is quite convenient.
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Individual sheets tablets can also be laid out on the table, making sheets of a larger format (A3 and higher). This feature can be useful when evaluating, for example, a drawing. One application can be displayed on the screen at a time. For example, on one sheet is a document that is being read at the moment, on another sheet is a map, on the third is a browser. Elements can be dragged (usual drag and drop) from one “sheet” to another.

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



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

via Laptop Magazine