PaperPhone is the brand new prototype of a smartphone that folds and is as flexible as a sheet of paper. Here is a video of PaperPhone and its features.
PaperPhone is a special smartphone: you can carry it with you, storing it virtually anywhere. “Like any smartphone,” one might object. In reality, Paperphone can be put in a wallet, worn like a watch, folded into a jacket pocket, and so on.
Its main characteristic is indeed flexibility, in the sense that PaperPhone can literally be folded like a sheet of paper.
Its display – produced by E Ink Corporation – is the very essence of this smartphone: from here, you can perform all the operations expected from an advanced phone.
Its operation is ensured by the printed circuit it is equipped with, which, just like the screen, bends as desired.
Queen’s University Human Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, thought of inventing and proposing PaperPhone: these labs are the source of bets on a technological future focused entirely on this type of device. The predictions do not refer to scenarios too far in the future: they speak of only 5 years.
Details on the operation of PaperPhone will be illustrated by Roel Vertegaal, the director of the Queen’s University Human Media Lab: he is scheduled to speak at the international conference “Human Computer Interaction,” taking place on May 10 in Vancouver.
In the meantime, here is a video of PaperPhone, the flexible smartphone.
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