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A Revolutionary Shape Changing Smartphone That Curls Upon a Call

Roel April 29, 2013

​Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab to unveil MorePhone at Paris conference

Researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have developed a new smartphone – called MorePhone – which can morph its shape to give users a silent yet visual cue of an incoming phone call, text message or email.

“This is another step in the direction of radically new interaction techniques afforded by smartphones based on thin film, flexible display technologies” says Roel Vertegaal (School of Computing), director of the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University who developed the flexible PaperPhone and PaperTab.

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Paper tablet computer reveals future tablets to be thin and flexible as sheets of paper

Roel January 7, 2013

Intel®, Plastic Logic and Queen’s University work together to revolutionize tablet computing

Cambridge, UK and Kingston, Canada - January 7, 2013– Watch out tablet lovers – a flexible paper computer developed at Queen’s University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs will revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers.

The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7” plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 Processor. Instead of using several apps or windows on a single display, users have ten or more interactive displays or “PaperTabs”: one per app in use.

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Queen’s opens the first ever ”Boutique” laboratory designed by award-winning global designer Karim Rashid

Roel May 1, 2012

May 1, 2012 - KINGSTON  A new futuristic Human Media Lab, designed to inspire students through a creative and flexible workplace environment, opens next week, May 12, 2012.  The lab serves as one big interactive playground, allowing students to hack and experiment with the architecture and space as a user interface.

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