Body-based navigational aid:
With Flexpad, IT experts in
Saarbrücken are able to better analyse images,
such as computer tomography,
as moving the paper or other flexible
material calls up different images onto the material,
which also functions as the monitor.
Recently at the 2013 IFA international trade show for
consumer electronics and home appliances in Berlin, major electronics
manufacturers displayed new types of displays that are thin, and even curved,
but expensive. IT experts in Saarbrücken have gone a step further. Their more
cost-effective approach, called Flexpad, allows a simple, standard sheet of
paper to be transformed into a moveable, flexible display. Already today, this
could help patients better review the results of a computer tomography, for
example. In the long term, the IT experts want to discover what new applications
are viable in future for ultra-thin, deformable, mobile end devices, and how
they can best be operated.