Posted on 01/09/2013 1:42:49 PM PST by illiac
It's a long way from hitting store shelves, but the new Papertab tablet debuting at CES shows where the technology is headed.
Plastic Logic and the Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab's new PaperTabhuman media lab Queen's University Canada Computers are getting smaller and thinner all the time, and it's not hard to imagine one that eventually looks and feels like a sheet of paper.
One company, Plastic Logic, is demonstrating an early prototype of just that this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. The company's Papertab tablet has a long way to go, but you can see what researchers envision and what that might mean for the next generation of computer users.
The Papertab looks like a thick sheet of paper, but it has a plastic display with a touchscreen. It connects to a high-end processor from Intel (INTC). The Papertabs seem to work best when there are more than one around. A user can be writing an email on one, for example, and then tap another one that contains a photo to add that photo to the message.
(Excerpt) Read more at t.money.msn.com ...
/johnny
Sounds like it is just the display, not the whole computer.
“Just wait until someone accidentally shreds their computer....”
Oh, yeah. A lot of stereotypes will happen with these things. Older people will file them away and lose them. Younger people will be lost when confronted with an analog sheet of paper. Some moron will use Wite-Out on one of them. Another idiot will cut one up with scissors for a collage. And someone will be shot by the TSA for trying to take one on an airplane.
LOL!....I am one of those older people.
I can also see someone cutting one into smaller parts for a palm device...
They would also be able to have a computer integrated into a sports coat that might be able to make James Bond green with envy
The dog ate my computer....
This is sadly funny. Recently I was looking for something I had thirty years ago. An elegant little calculator the size of a credit card and just a little thicker to put in my daytimer. Yes daytimer, wanna make something of it!!!
Anyhow, all the calculators I find are huge clunky things. that will not fit. funny and sad.
This is sadly funny. Recently I was looking for something I had thirty years ago. An elegant little calculator the size of a credit card and just a little thicker to put in my daytimer. Yes daytimer, wanna make something of it!!!
Anyhow, all the calculators I find are huge clunky things. that will not fit. funny and sad.
Harry Potter newspapers!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.