PAPER PHONE: A Peep Into The Future

"Technology is at the course of rapid evolution and things new now seems more than stale in a short time latter."
Four years back, the normal keypad based small screen feature phones with audio, video players and 2-5 MP camera  used to be a technology of great hype. Soon these feature phones evolved into smart phones hosting a bigger screen, touch controls for keypads, supporting multitasking etc.Within a year these compact gadgets started catching PCs in terms of power and performance. The Android OS from Google took the whole thing to a new level. Believe me! after introduction to the next episode of this chapter, all these would sound like a medieval age technology!!! 
Meet the flexible, super thin and compact "PAPER PHONE".Outcome of the combined efforts of researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, Arizona State University, USA, researchers from the E-Ink Corporation.

The Paper Phone

The flexible phone senses bending to perform various tasks. It can also be touch controlled and used for writing. Now seeing this, if we get a feel that we would get rid of papers in future, we certainly are not wrong. These flexible stuff are so efficient and handy that they can be stacked like papers, rolled, folded, used to store any kind of document etc.
More over if this technology in particular goes the way we want it, then it will protect large number of trees, we cut to manufacture papers etc. and will help maintaining a healthy ecosystem!!

3D TRANSISTORS FROM INTEL

"In recent times all  processor manufacturers seem to rattle with a speed as never before!!"
Inel gives the throttle a twist by announcing its new 3d-transistors and is hoping to take a remarkable lead in this race.

What is a 3d-transistor?
The 3d-transistor is actually a tri-gate transistor which has a single gate stacked on top two vertical gates unlike the conventional planar transistors having single gates. The tri-gate architecture allows electrons three times more area to travel. It also minimizes the off-state leakage current reducing the idle state power requirement and enhances the current in on-state. This make it highly efficient in terms of power and density and because of its compactness it favors higher transistor density.

Intel 3d transistor

                                                
Intel aims to employ these transistors in its 22nm Evy Bridge family of CPUs. Intel claims that these processors would be 37% efficient in terms of performance with reduced power consumption and low voltage requirements.
Intel is the largest supplier of processors for Laptops and PCs but it never got going with the mobiles and tablets. With its latest achievement it aims to establish itself in the mobile market as well.
The company looks desperate to use this invention to propel itself to the peak in market of mobile processors too and has announced to bring processors based on these transistors by next year, but this seems to be a all different track. Intel's rivals like Qualcomm, Nvedia, Samsung, etc. are the dominant players here. They have already engineered some monsters and products using them are already in market. Also they are working at a great pace to make them even more powerful and efficient. Nvedia has promised to bring processors 8-12 times more powerful than their current dual-core Tegra2 processors and Qualcomm is on the same road too.
Moreover mobile and tablet SOC requires powerful GPUs as well, CPUs alone can't make the cut and Intel should be aware of it.
So journey for Intel is not going to be easy for sure but its better to wait and see than predict!!