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This Paper-Thin Phone Will Soon Look Primitive
By Chris Gayomali on May 6, 2011
Related Tags: e-paper, e-readers, electronic paper, paperphone, phones, super thin, the future
A team of researchers at The Queens University Human Media Lab put together this flexible, ultra-thin phone out of electronic paper. They're calling it — what else? — the PaperPhone, which does most of the things phones do nowadays: it places calls, lets you scroll through contacts, plays songs and even paginates text.
What's interesting is that its command interface goes through an innovative set of bend sensors rather than relying on a user's touch. While bending a gadget is unlikely to replace an actual touch screen, it'll be a nice piece of augmentative technology that I can see being useful in the future. (Picture yourself reading an e-book one handed, creasing to the next page with merely a slight thumb depression. You won't even need to put down your future-Coke.) Plus there's all the added benefit of technology becoming more durable when you make it flex, meaning no more spider-webb-ish cracked screens for the especially clumsy.
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/this-paper-thin-phone-will-soon-look-primitive/#ixzz1LcdWKGpm
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This Paper-Thin Phone Will Soon Look Primitive
By Chris Gayomali on May 6, 2011
Related Tags: e-paper, e-readers, electronic paper, paperphone, phones, super thin, the future
A team of researchers at The Queens University Human Media Lab put together this flexible, ultra-thin phone out of electronic paper. They're calling it — what else? — the PaperPhone, which does most of the things phones do nowadays: it places calls, lets you scroll through contacts, plays songs and even paginates text.
What's interesting is that its command interface goes through an innovative set of bend sensors rather than relying on a user's touch. While bending a gadget is unlikely to replace an actual touch screen, it'll be a nice piece of augmentative technology that I can see being useful in the future. (Picture yourself reading an e-book one handed, creasing to the next page with merely a slight thumb depression. You won't even need to put down your future-Coke.) Plus there's all the added benefit of technology becoming more durable when you make it flex, meaning no more spider-webb-ish cracked screens for the especially clumsy.
Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/this-paper-thin-phone-will-soon-look-primitive/#ixzz1LcdWKGpm
