A notebook from the future

“Plantbook” probably can be called the most unusual concept of notebook. Its creators are Koreans named Hyerim Kim as well as Seunggi Baek. They astonished the world of technologies by their imagination. 

Their “Plantbook” has a flexible display and touch-sensitive keyboard and it can form a tube! It can be charged, using both solar energy and water. It sounds unbelievable, but in addition this gadget produces oxygen! There is a green loop in the form of a leaf at one end of the notebook which displays a battery level. 

A lot of investors have already been interested in this device, since it’s not only the first promising fashionable up-to-date technology but it’s also intended to concern about nature and its ecology.

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