Researchers at the Human Media Laboratory, Queen’s University in Canada are developing prototypes of new “non-planar” devices, which are virtually computers that have a flexible shape. Computers are nifty, but too bulky to be carried around. Even a laptop is too big to put in your pocket, but imagine if your computer looked and worked like a magazine or a piece of paper to be tucked away into your pockets. Not only will they take on flexible forms we’ve never imagined – like pop cans with browsers displaying RSS feeds and movie trailers – computers of the future will respond to our direct touch and even change their own shape to better accommodate data. ”We want to reduce the computer’s stranglehold on cognitive processing by imbedding it and making it work more and more like the natural environment,” says Dr. Vertegaal  -Im thinking about the possibilities this can have on an architectural scale.