PAPER TABLET!

                         PAPER TABLET

INTRODUCTION:

PAPER TABLET

"This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years" .
The collaborative thinkers behind the PaperTab are a team at Canada's Queen's University who worked on it in collaboration with Intel Labs and Plastic Logic .
The latter is a plastic electronics company founded by researchers at Cambridge University. Plastic Logic developed the plastic transistor technology in PaperTab.

ABSTRACT:Innovative ideas may bring the impossible to possible,as such in the case of paper tablet.Call it the paper tablet. Or flexible e-paper touchscreen. Or an all in one computing experience made up of a cluster of papery, tablet screens, each behaving like an app.


DESCRIPTION:PaperTab is,a 10.7 inch, e-ink, flexible touchscreen display powered by an Intel Core i5 processor. The tablet looks and feels like a sheet of paper. Its "bendiness" delivers durability and also interactions, as by bending the sides, one can flip through pages.                 

EPAPER KEYBOARD

 MODEL:We defined a  bend gesture as the physical, manual deformation of a display surface to form a curvature for the purpose of triggering an action on a computer display. To aid in the design of our study, we developed a simple classification scheme for  bend gestures based on the physical affordances of the display, the sensing data available from the
bend sensor array, and the PaperPhone bend gesture recognition engine.
HOW TO WORK?When a PaperTab is placed outside of reaching distance it reverts to a thumbnail overview of a document, as one would see icons on a PC.
   Then, when picked up or touched, the PaperTab returns to a full screen page view. The concept of a PaperTab as not just a bendable screen but a device that promises a full computer experience becomes clear in the device's position awareness of other PaperTabs.

Multiple PaperTabs work with each other. Pushing two PaperTabs together results in an extended app across the two screens. A user can move pictures between screens. Tapping one tablet with content can send it to a waiting document in another.
The user can send a photo by tapping one PaperTab showing a draft e-mail with the other PaperTab showing the photo.
The photo is then automatically attached to the draft e-mail. The email is sent either by placing the PaperTab in an out tray or by bending the top corner of the display.This technology is further getting implemented in smartphones.

CONCLUSION:Today’s design may be the tomorrow’s success. "
Within five to ten years, most computers, from ultra-notebooks to tablets, will look and feel just like these sheets of printed color papers.