The Queen’s School of Computing is pleased to announce that Human Media Lab (Professor Roel Vertegaal, Director) is in the news today for its invention of the world’s first holographic flexible smartphone.
Professor Vertegaal also appears for a second time in the Queen’s Gazette for its invention of the world’s first hand-held device with a fully cylindrical user interface.
HoloFlex: the world’s first flexible, holographic smartphone and MagicWand: cylindrical handheld display, is on The Verge, SlashGear, The Next Web, IEEE Spectrum, TechWorm, and CKWS as well being unveiled, in Daily Mail (UK), MobileSyrup, GizMag, Tech Radar, Motherboard, ScienceAlert, Engadget, WhatMobile, Digit.in and other international and trade publications and numerous other international and trade publications.
Cylindrical screens and bendable holograms: the future of smartphone technology, on Pursuitist.com. The HoloFlex phone was also the topic of a panel discussion on CTV National News Network on futuristic technology. Also the HoloFlex holographic smartphone, MagicWand cylindrical display is unveiled, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Other articles included:
Bloomberg: Bendable smartphones are coming; But are they ready for prime time?
Electronic Products and Technology: Queen’s U to unveil world’s first wireless flexible smartphone
Fortune: Bendable Smartphones Are Coming This Year.
Also in the New York Post
Sydney Morning Herald – Bendable smartphones coming this year, Chinese start-up says.
Design Engineering – Canadian researchers develop holographic flexible smartphone.
NewsWatch – HoloFlex: The first flexible phone with a holographic display
Cbc.ca: Bendable phones ‘right around the corner,’ says Samsung exec.
Kicker Daily News: Lenovo is making bendable phone you can slap on wrist like a bracelet
San Francisco Chronicle: Lenovo explores building flexible, bendable smartphones.
Government technology: Large screen vs compact device: bendable phones could be the answer.