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Everyone dreams of an electronic display they can roll up and shove in their pocket—but now it’s closer than ever. These flexible e-paper tablets are the stuff of dreams.
Developed by Queen’s University, Plastic Logic and Intel Labs, the displays look pretty much like sheets of paper. Actually, though, they’re 10.7-inch plastic displays which are flexible and touch sensitive. Here, a bunch of them are strung together and powered by some Intel guts.
Each display houses a different app, and the screens can interact with each other: tap one page on another to open a document or email, say, and then flick or twist to provide commands. The displays also know where others are, so they can be teamed up to produce a larger screen when placed next to each other.
All in, it’s an amazingly-realised concept, which feels a little bit like how people 20 years ago probably imagined modern offices should look. OK, maybe it’s not perfectly polished— refreshing looks dog slow and it feels awkward with all those ribbon cables over the desk—but give it a break. If my desk looks like a neater version of this in a few years time, I will be a happy man. [YouTube]
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I agree with the article sentiment. Fantastic, phenomenal tech which changes lives all starts with little break through concepts like this. Exciting stuff.
I’d like just one of those and the whole of my desk covered in another huge one.
Im sorry but am i the only one who thinks this looks shit?….this will NEVER take off until it provides at least a kindle paperwhite screen quality and no cables…even then it lacks colour.
Most probably as you seem to not understand what a concept is. Rather than a finished product
you are Trolling right??
I’m not a fan of this at all.
Surely just one table sized screen would be more beneficial? Where each app opened on an a4 sized window. Free scaling would allow it to be sized as required. And if you really needed to show it to somebody else. some nfc connectivity with a standard tablet should surely suffice. this is only a stone throw away from what microsoft has already been working on. Why complicate things with multiple flexible e-ink displays?
1. Portability.
2. The tactile motions and bending is more ‘phyical’ which is nice.
3. Potentially cost (although it depends on how many you want/how large you want the desk space to be).
I understand what you’re saying, but I think having separate bits of e-paper is more intuitive than one big desk with loads going on.
I suppose under different working conditions there’s pros and cons to the idea. Unfortunately I can’t see it replacing traditional paper and computer setups yet though
Mmmm…colour e-ink displays in various sizes strewn all over my apartment.
This pleases me.
This is great and you can see this becoming more, skip 10-15 years and it will be fully powered, fully colour, fully multi-touch with apps and cameras etc.. but it will be flexible and portable and will be linked to phone for internet or be 4g/5g etc.. etc.. this is the start of the next real change in tablet tech..
It is certainly nice to see some of the aspects we expect from future tablets starting to take shape.