Folding tablets. Solar-powered slates. Apps that automatically install–and delete–themselves based on your location. Superslim, flexible devices that fit in your pocket like a sheet of paper.

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will look like in 5 years
The Future of Tablets - What your tablet a sheet of paper. Combine that effort with research
will look like in 5 years into using DNA strands to construct processors, as
well a Stanford University nanotech project to build
Your Tablet in Five Years bendable batteries out of paper, and suddenly the
foldable tablet doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
Folding tablets. Solar-powered slates. Apps that au-
tomatically install–and delete–themselves based on See Me, Feel Me
your location. Superslim, flexible devices that fit in
your pocket like a sheet of paper. Not all of these
concepts will survive the leap from research to re-
tail, but many will ship before you know it. Here
are some of the most intriguing tablets and tablet
apps that tech visionaries are developing.
The Sheet Tablet
Future tablets and smartphones will monitor you
and the world you live in. According to Rice Uni-
versity computer science professor Lin Zhong, mo-
bile devices a decade from now will have sensing
capabilities, including the ability to interact with
wireless sensors worn on or implanted in the user’s
body. They could also work with sensors in the en-
vironment, perhaps to collect weather information
Newspapers and magazines are foldable. Why not to transmit wirelessly to cloud-based data centers.
tablets? Well, one very good reason is that they Who knows–your tablet or phone may someday
contain various nonbendy components such as warn you of an impending heart attack before you
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going innovations in nanotechnology, including na-
nowires made of copper, could lead to flexible
newsreaders similar to Innovation+Bermer Labs’
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Tablet With Airbags Bits and Pieces
Durable cases for drop-proofing your tablet aren’t Care to assemble your own tablet from a dozen or
new. But Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has come up with so mini-mobile components? The Mobikom concept
an alternative design that may be clever or crazy–or from designer Kamil Izrailov features square hard-
a little of both. In February 2010, Bezos reportedly ware chunklets that use “micro-locks” to hook up,
applied for a patent for an airbag system for mo- according to the Design Buzz blog. Each piece has
bile devices. The airbags, of course, are designed to its own power supply and processor. The more Mo-
cushion the impact of the inevitable tablet plunge bikom squares you connect, the greater the capabi-
to the pavement. A ruggedized case may provide lities of the device, be it a smartphone or a tablet.
similar protection, but wouldn’t it be cool to see There’s one big problem, though: How do you mi-
airbags deploy on tumbling tablet? No word yet as nimize the risk of losing a square or two? Scrabble
to whether Bezos’s alleged airbag system will leave and Lego fans, you know what I mean.
the drawing board.
Location, Location, Location
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Location-savvy services such as Foursquare tell Android and Chrome OS operating systems, two
the online world where you’re dining, shopping, mobile platforms destined to merge in the future.
or loitering. But future tablet and phone apps will
do much more than anoint you the Mayor of Star- Tablet Ringing? Answer With the Stick
bucks. in July Fujitsu Laboratories announced a new Phone
mobile platform that automatically downloads and
runs–and later erases–apps and data appropriate
for a particular time and place. If you bring your
tablet to the Museum of Natural History, for instance,
Fujitsu’s cloud-based system will identify where you
are and immediately push the museum’s navigation
guide to your slate. When you leave the museum, it
will automatically delete the guide. Naturally, the
system will also work with smartphones and PCs.
Too creepy? Let’s hope that there’s an opt-out button.
Tablet-Laptop Convergence
Here’s a clever idea from designer Antoine Brieux:
the HTC Stick Phone, a slim and sleek basic phone
that fits inside theHTC Tube Tablet, another Brieux
concept. The tablet-phone combo could be a boon
to users who’d rather not lug around two mobile
devices. Besides, why carry a smartphone that du-
plicates the capabilities of your tablet? Indeed, the
Stick Phone may find a receptive audience–if it ever
ships.
Tablets and laptops are on a collision course. Both
genres are growing thinner and lighter–witness the
Apple iPad 2 andMacBook Air, the Samsung Galaxy
Tab 10.1 and Series 9, and a host of upcoming, Air-
like Ultrabook notebooks. Meld lean laptops with
finger-friendly desktop operating systems–specifi-
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cally the gesture-happy Lion OS X 10.7 and forthco-
ming Windows 8–and a harmonic convergence can’t
be far off. The Lenovo IdeaPad U1, a combination
of Android tablet and Windows laptop, may be a
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Origami Original Augmented-reality apps are already available for
tablets and smartphones, but they’re rudimentary
compared to what’s coming. Today, for instance, the
aptly named Augmented Reality app for iOS devices
displays points of interest (including restaurants,
transit stops, and coffee shops) over a live view of
a real-world environment such as the street you’re
standing on. AR is better suited to tablets than to
smartphones, as graphical overlays are easier to
view and interact with on a tablet-size screen.So
what does the future hold for AR? As this Hidden
Creative video illustrates, it may include the ability
to point a tablet/phone camera at a hotel, see an
overlay of vacant rooms, and book a reservation
on the spot.
The clever Feno concept may be a laptop, but its Don’t Write Off the Pen
fold-tastic design would work for tablets, too. The
Feno’s display has an additional hinge that allows the
screen to fold in half and wrap around the keyboard.
A tablet version could have a detachable keyboard,
perhaps, or even a third screen fold. And if you’re
fretting that a foldable screen might mar the view
with a visible crease, there’s good news. Researchers
at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
are working on aflexible OLED display capable of
folding without the dreaded crease.
Reality With Subtitles
Before the iPad, stylus-based tablets tried (and failed)
to win consumers’ hearts. But the pen/slate combo
may still have a future, particularly in niche markets
where touch input is just too clumsy. The mPad is
a big-screen tablet created to meet the needs of
designers. According to future-tech site Informa-
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slate has a 15.6-inch OLED display, a scrollwheel,
programmable short cuts for software applications,
and an ergonomically friendly case that inclines 15
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Solar-Powered Tablet With most tablets, a case is just a case. But with
the HiLoconcept slate, the carrying pouch doubles
as a wireless QWERTY keyboard. The HiLo, which
features a 10-inch OLED, slides inside its felt key-
board jacket for comfy carrying. Soft as a Santa
stocking, yes, but probably not the best protection
against drops and knocks. The felt case features
fused keys and a pointing device for users who don’t
like touchscreens.
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