New PaperPhone Will Revolutionize Smartphones

This is an interesting concept, and don't doubt that it will happen. My only problem is I'm not sure if I want to pay two or three hundred dollars for a piece of paper.

The world’s first interactive paper computer has been developed, and it is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing.

Professor Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab, created the PaperPhone, which is best described as a flexible iPhone.

“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” Vertegaal said.

“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,” he explained.

The smartphone prototype does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls.

But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer, that is, it will shape with your pocket.

via New paper computer, PaperPhone set to revolutionise smartphones, tablets.