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HoloFlex: A Flexible Smartphone with a Faux Holographic Display

9 May, 2016 // 4 Comments

The Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario is now showing off their latest in a long line of unique mobile devices which will never leave the lab. The Holoflex is a prototype Android [Read More ...]

Queen’s University Researchers Debut Latest in Line of Flexible Mobile Devices That Have Never Left the Lab

18 February, 2016 // 0 Comments

For over a decade the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario has been developing new interface concepts for how humans can interact with computers, including mobile devices. Over the [Read More ...]

Paperfold Smartphone Concept Revives the Idea of a Collapsible Smartphone Screen

1 May, 2014 // 1 Comment

Researchers at Queens University's Human Media Lab have developed a new concept design for a smartphone with multiple detachable E-ink screens. The Paperfold is probably never going to get out of a [Read More ...]

This Smartphone Gets the Bends When You Get a Call (video)

2 May, 2013 // 4 Comments

Researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queens University have been spending the past several years looking at new ways that we might interact with next-generation displays. I have long been a fan of [Read More ...]

PlasticLogic’s New Flexible Tablet Has a Lot of Promise but Little Chance of Hitting the Market

8 January, 2013 // 2 Comments

Yesterday I reported on a new use for PlasticLogic's flexible screen tech and today I got a chance to see it in action. I think that it is a very cool research project which has almost no chance of [Read More ...]

Dick Tracy, eat your heart out

4 May, 2011 // 2 Comments

The Human Media Lab at Queens University, Canada, has been working on a new concept device built around a flexible 3.7" E-ink screen (I showed you a prototype yesterday). The Snaplet has both a [Read More ...]