Mobile devices with rollable displays are just around the corner, but one team is taking some fairly old-school inspiration for how a tablet could use the screen technology. The MagicScroll is the ...

The MagicScroll is a tablet with a display flexible enough to roll into a cylinder. Photo: Queen’s University Human Media Lab Forget folding displays. A group of Canadian researchers created a working ...

Back in ancient times, before the Internet was a thing and touchscreen devices dominated the landscape, people read newspapers made from wood pulp (and other ingredients). You could roll it up and ...

Researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada have invented a scroll-like smart device. The MagicScroll works both when rolled up like a paper scroll, and when its 7.5-inch display is rolled ...

Created by a research team at Queen's University's Human Media Lab in Canada, MagicScroll is being called the 'world's first rollable touch-screen tablet.' The prototype features a 7.5-inch 2K ...

In ancient times, people read from rolled-up papyrus scrolls. Today, many of us read from flat tablets. Scientists at Canada's Queen's University have now combined aspects of the two, in the ...

Research scientists at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have built a prototype touchscreen device that’s neither smartphone nor tablet but kind of both — and more besides. The device, which ...

Queen's University's Human Lab researchers made history as it unveiled the MagicScroll, which is the world's first rollable touchscreen tablet. The HML team, spearheaded by Dr. Roel Vertegaal, said ...