diff --git a/examples/helloworld.rs b/examples/helloworld.rs
index be21558cd..cae62575b 100644
--- a/examples/helloworld.rs
+++ b/examples/helloworld.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use af::*;
 fn main() {
     set_device(0);
     info();
+    print!("Info String:\n{}", info_string(true));
 
     let num_rows: u64 = 5;
     let num_cols: u64 = 3;
diff --git a/src/device/mod.rs b/src/device/mod.rs
index d8a8a0081..ff0e8ac65 100644
--- a/src/device/mod.rs
+++ b/src/device/mod.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 extern crate libc;
 
-use defines::AfError;
+use defines::{AfError, DType};
 use error::HANDLE_ERROR;
-use self::libc::{c_int, size_t, c_char};
-use std::ffi::CString;
+use self::libc::{c_int, size_t, c_char, c_void};
+use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
+use util::free_host;
 
 extern {
     fn af_get_version(major: *mut c_int, minor: *mut c_int, patch: *mut c_int) -> c_int;
     fn af_info() -> c_int;
+    fn af_info_string(str: *mut *mut c_char, verbose: bool) -> c_int;
     fn af_init() -> c_int;
     fn af_get_device_count(nDevices: *mut c_int) -> c_int;
     fn af_get_dbl_support(available: *mut c_int, device: c_int) -> c_int;
@@ -56,6 +58,29 @@ pub fn info() {
     }
 }
 
+/// Return library meta-info as `String`
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// An example output of `af::info_string` call looks like below
+///
+/// ```text
+/// ArrayFire v3.0.0 (CUDA, 64-bit Mac OSX, build d8d4b38)
+/// Platform: CUDA Toolkit 7, Driver: CUDA Driver Version: 7000
+/// [0] GeForce GT 750M, 2048 MB, CUDA Compute 3.0
+/// ```
+pub fn info_string(verbose: bool) -> String {
+    let result: String;
+    unsafe {
+        let mut tmp: *mut c_char = ::std::ptr::null_mut();
+        let err_val = af_info_string(&mut tmp, verbose);
+        HANDLE_ERROR(AfError::from(err_val));
+        result = CStr::from_ptr(tmp).to_string_lossy().into_owned();
+        free_host(tmp);
+    }
+    result
+}
+
 /// Initialize ArrayFire library
 ///
 /// 0th device will be the default device unless init call
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 23b2a78dc..a1c5b6fe3 100755
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ pub use data::{select, selectl, selectr, replace, replace_scalar};
 pub use data::{range_t, iota_t, identity_t, constant_t};
 mod data;
 
-pub use device::{get_version, info, init, device_count, is_double_available, set_device, get_device};
+pub use device::{get_version, info, info_string, init, device_count, is_double_available, set_device, get_device};
 pub use device::{device_mem_info, print_mem_info, set_mem_step_size, get_mem_step_size, device_gc, sync};
 mod device;
 
diff --git a/src/util.rs b/src/util.rs
index db8740bb2..01f5261ea 100644
--- a/src/util.rs
+++ b/src/util.rs
@@ -6,11 +6,18 @@ use defines::{SparseFormat, BinaryOp, RandomEngineType};
 use error::HANDLE_ERROR;
 use std::mem;
 use self::num::Complex;
-use self::libc::{uint8_t, c_int, size_t};
+use self::libc::{uint8_t, c_int, size_t, c_void};
+
+// This is private in array
+// use array::DimT;
+type DimT = self::libc::c_longlong;
 
 #[allow(dead_code)]
 extern {
     fn af_get_size_of(size: *mut size_t, aftype: uint8_t) -> c_int;
+
+    fn af_alloc_host(ptr: *mut *const c_void, bytes: DimT) -> c_int;
+    fn af_free_host(ptr: *mut c_void) -> c_int;
 }
 
 /// Get size, in bytes, of the arrayfire native type
@@ -23,6 +30,25 @@ pub fn get_size(value: DType) -> usize {
     }
 }
 
+/// Allocates space using Arrayfire allocator in host memory
+pub fn alloc_host<T>(elements: usize, _type: DType) -> *const T {
+    let ptr: *const T = ::std::ptr::null();
+    let bytes = (elements * get_size(_type)) as DimT;
+    unsafe {
+        let err_val = af_alloc_host(&mut (ptr as *const c_void), bytes);
+        HANDLE_ERROR(AfError::from(err_val));
+    }
+    ptr
+}
+
+/// Frees memory allocated by Arrayfire allocator in host memory
+pub fn free_host<T>(ptr: *mut T) {
+    unsafe {
+        let err_val = af_free_host(ptr as *mut c_void);
+        HANDLE_ERROR(AfError::from(err_val));
+    }
+}
+
 impl From<i32> for AfError {
     fn from(t: i32) -> AfError {
         assert!(AfError::SUCCESS as i32 <= t && t <= AfError::ERR_UNKNOWN as i32);