The future lies in PaperPhone
A prototype of paperphone.
If you think iPhone has revolutionised the smartphone space, hold your judgment.
A team of Canadian and American researchers has invented a plastic smartphone, which is as thin and flexible as a paper sheet.
With a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible electronic ink (E Ink) display, this smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone, does everything a smartphone does.
“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” said the creator, Mr Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab. It will be unveiled on May 10.
You don’t have to use touchscreen or buttons to operate the phone. Just bend its corners to trigger a command. Bending it in different ways triggers different commands in its sensors.
“You interact with the phone by bending it into a cellphone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen,” he said.
If you think iPhone has revolutionised the smartphone space, hold your judgment.
A team of Canadian and American researchers has invented a plastic smartphone, which is as thin and flexible as a paper sheet.
With a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible electronic ink (E Ink) display, this smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone, does everything a smartphone does.
“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” said the creator, Mr Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab. It will be unveiled on May 10.
You don’t have to use touchscreen or buttons to operate the phone. Just bend its corners to trigger a command. Bending it in different ways triggers different commands in its sensors.
“You interact with the phone by bending it into a cellphone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen,” he said.
