Plastic Logic PaperTab is Runner-Up for T3 Innovation of the Year

Plastic Logic’s ‘flexible multi-display’ has received runner-up position for T3 Innovation of the Year in Gadget Awards.

‘However you look at the PaperTab, it is difficult to avoid the word ‘revolutionary,’” stated Phys.org earlier this year. PaperTab behaves like a series of paper-thin, low-power flexible displays that can interact both with a person’s gestures and with each other. These are some of the properties of something as groundbreaking as PaperTab that helped it earn a runner-up position in the Innovation of the Year category in the prestigious T3 Gadget Awards.

Two PaperTab displays placed next to one another will automatically align the image and “tile” to form a larger display. Tapping one on another can move content between the two. Manipulation of the displays themselves – bending a corner for instance – can send an email, scroll through documents or drawing revisions and objects can be dragged between one and another using a stylus.

PaperTab was the result of collaboration between Plastic Logic, which developed the flexible organic thin film transistor technology used in the displays, the Human Media Lab led by Professor Roel Vertegaal of Queens University, Canada, and Intel, whose Core i5 processor drives it. The T3 Gadget Awards is now in its seventh year and, with nearly 1 million votes being cast across the categories, is one of the world’s leading celebrations of tech.

“Given that past winners of T3 Innovation of the Year include the Apple iPad, Raspberry Pi and Microsoft Kinect, we are extremely pleased that PaperTab has received this accolade in such a prestigious award,” said Indro Mukerjee, CEO of Plastic Logic.