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Canadian Researchers Debut PaperTab, the Paper-Thin Tablet

Posted by samzenpus on from the expensive-origami dept.

redletterdave writes "The PaperTab, which looks and feels just like a sheet of paper, may one day overtake today's tablet. Developed by researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, the PaperTab features a flexible, high-resolution 10.7-inch plastic touchscreen display built by Plastic Logic, the company borne from Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, and relies on a second-generation Intel Core i5 processor to turn what looks like a sheet of white paper into a living, interactive display. Unlike typical tablets akin to Apple's iPad, the idea of PaperTab is to use one app at a time, per PaperTab. To make tasks easier, users would own 10 or more PaperTabs at once and lay them out to their liking; with multiple tablets to separate your applications, PaperTab relies on an interface that allows you to combine and merge elements from disparate applications with intuitive dragging, dropping, pointing, and folding."

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  1. Video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81iiGWdsJgg&feature=player_embedded

  2. The actual link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since the douchetard du jour forgot to, I guess it's up to old Anonymous Cowherd to link to the actual website (rather than the warmed-over blogruel we were served):

    http://www.humanmedialab.org/papertab

    You can thank me by clicking 'reply' and composing a note of thanks.