Tired of cracking the glass on your smartphone screen? Or carrying around the extra weight in your pocket? And how many times have you wanted to smash your phone when talking to annoying people?Say thanks to the latest technology you'll soon be able to crush that handset mercilessly. Well, almost.
The e-paper prototype PaperPhone has a 3.75-inch thin-film display and developers call it the world's first flexible smartphone. It can do everything a smartphone can, such as make calls, display books, and play music.The world’s first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. future cellphone will be as thin, light and flexible as a sheet of paper.
At a computing conference next week, Roel Vertegaal, associate professor of computer science and director of the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, will officially unveil the "PaperPhone."
As seen in the vid below, the prototype is based on e-ink technology and is more like a bendable plastic sheet about the thickness of a conference badge. It can be operated by bending the corners to turn a page, squeezing to make a call, and even written on with a pen.
“this is the future. everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator roel vertegaal, the director of queen’s university human media lab,. “this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. you interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.”
being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.
“the paperless office is here. everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk” says dr. vertegaal.
"This is not a maybe. This is a definite," Also said Vertegaal. "This is what your phone will look like."
the invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin-film and flexible. they use no power when nobody is interacting with them. when users are reading, they don’t feel like they’re holding a sheet of glass or metal.
dr. vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on may 10 at 2 pm at the association of computing machinery’s chi 2011 (computer human interaction) conference in vancouver — the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. an article on a study of interactive use of bending with flexible thinfilm computers is to be published at this conference, where the group is also demonstrating a thinfilm wristband computer called snaplet.
Lets wait and watch the next paperPhone...
