Comments on: CES 2013: Will your next tablet be made of plastic paper?

By: Talha Iqbal

Talha Iqbal — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:36:53 +0000

This is really something new and its a great idea. But its still in it early stage and the tablet market is new so may be they should wait a little, just to keep the charm of the tablet products coming in the market. If you want to get more background about the current mainstream tablet market & market shares of the platform leaders, you may find the Uniqloud tablet market overview insightful.

By: MRodent

MRodent — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:38:01 +0000

pretty frustrating to us who like or need to read larger format things (e.g. A4-sized PDF)… there are so few large-format e-ink devices out there any more. I just acquired a Pocketbook Pro 912 (9.7″) and I am deeply unimpressed by the technology here… for the price. But I had to because of the eyestrain issue.
PLeeeeease can someone come up with a large, fast, paperwhite, e-ink device. Personally I’d be prepared to pay top dollar.

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:43 +0000

If they can be made cheap enough, they might be ideal for self service menus.

They could be left in a bin on the table, take the order via touch, and then a runner just brings the food out.

By: Mv

Mv — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:48:14 +0000

Plastic Paper vs wearable glasses?
Which is more likely to be the future of technology?
It depends on which drivers are more important
Technology is driven by the coolness factor however it is even more likely to be driven by which materials are easier and cheaper to obtain.

By: Astrokitty Comics

Astrokitty Comics — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:29:05 +0000

This is clearly just a tech demo…but it’s really exciting. No one is going to want these, as they stand now, but if we look just a few years into the future, we’ll be seeing full-scale tablet PCs using technology like this (i.e. flexible, thin, interactive surfaces). At that point, we might actually see it impact the book industry and comic/magazine market more than even iPads and the like have so far. “Every tablet is an app” is not what people want. They want a convergence device and something in hi-res color. All of this will come down the pike eventually. Sooner, rather than later. The next step is to make the OS and interface something people enjoy and is intuitive. After that, price point will play a big part. Once the item is ubiquitous, you’ll see people choosing these things more and more over paper. Can you imagine a doctor’s office with a few of these “chained” to a table? Loaded with a ton of magazines and the like? The advertising opportunities alone are staggering when you’re dealing with a dynamic, interactive display that can assess user interests with just a few “clicks”. A school with these assigned to every child or available in every classroom? With dedicated “locks” on them in an OS, allowing the teacher to tailor the way the student interacts with the material on the tablet? It’s exciting. Once the resolution of these things can replicate a comic/magazine page and the bending/paper-like sensation is perfected, the print industry will be used primarily for “art” items…or something people choose for the sense of nostalgia or interactive preference. Sort of like LPs are now. Heck, even CDs and cassette tapes have made “comebacks” at times. There will always be a market for print, but the days of print being the primary medium for dispensation of information, art, images, and story are numbered.

By: djrichard

djrichard — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:34:10 +0000

Just give me an android-based e-ink tablet (large format) and I’d be happy.

By: Bea

Bea — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:40:45 +0000

I don’t like this at all. I think that their introduction of the idea or product, should be more attractive. This doesn’t appeal to me at all and I love new tech. It they’re going to make paper tablets, and you use several as shown in the video, it looks like tech in reverse going back to paper. Put a few together and you have a book. Kids could tell their teacher, “The dog ate my tablet.”