The flexible future for smartphones and tablets

PaperPhone is the world's first nextgen, thin film smartphone and interactive paper computer. It is based on a 3.7" flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display that does not consume electricity when it is not refreshed. Thinfilm sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play or pause mp3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps. A flexible wacom tablet allows users to draw on the screen with a pen as if it were a sheet of paper.

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go.. MoonBots 2.0 Challenge

MoonBots is an exciting contest that challenges teams of youth and adults to learn about robotics, the Moon and space exploration by designing and constructing a LEGO MINDSSTORMS robot that performs simulated lunar missions.



The X PRIZE Foundation and Google have created the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a new, private race to the Moon that is engaging and exciting the global public while enabling the commercial exploration of space and dramatically reducing its cost. The Google Lunar X PRIZE is expected to increase the connection that individuals around the world feel to space exploration, science, and education by taking advantage of new tools for the rapid and targeted distribution of information. By reigniting a race to the Moon, the Google Lunar X PRIZE is intended to engage a new generation, making lunar exploration not just a historical accomplishment, but a tangible reality.


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The future of mobile social media

At Stanford, an engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to design the future of open-source social networking.

They have formed MobiSocial to ask the most fundamental questions about this rapidly burgeoning field, questions that seem obvious now that mobile and social media are firmly entrenched, but which weren't so obvious as the technologies were entrenching themselves: Can social be done better? Can it be even more social and more fun? Can it be more open? Can it be more secure? And, if so, how?

In short, MobiSocial is about imagining and creating an open-source mobile-social media future.

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A next-generation digital book

..the first full-length interactive book for the iPad, with clever, swipeable video and graphics and cool data visualizations to play with.