Tablet Computer Archives

Flexible, Paper-Thin Smart Phone

By David Erickson | August 20, 2011

PaperPhone is a thin film smart phone and interactive paper computer, based on a 3.7″ flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display that only uses electricity when it’s refreshed. Thin film sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play MP3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps.

Throwback Thursday: The Tablet Newspaper Circa 1994

By David Erickson | July 14, 2011

Knight Ridder was imagining the tablet computer back in 1992.

Poetry App: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

By David Erickson | June 30, 2011

This is a glimpse into the future of education: Max Whitby provides a guided tour of a tablet app that explores T.S. Eliot’s amazing poem, The Waste Land.