Paperphone - a Smartphone from an Electronic Paper

PaperPhone can do anything like in the smart phone such as calling, sending short messages, play music and load electronic books.

This gadget will perform different functions and features when folded and bent in the corners and sides.

"Everything looked and felt like this in the next five years," said its creator Dr. Roel Vertegaal.

This smart phone comes from collaboration between researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University, Canada and Motivational Environments Research Group at Arizona State University.

"This computer looks, feels and operates like a small interactive paper," the question of Dr. Vertegaal.

"You interact with folded it into a mobile phone, folding the corners into the pages or writing with a pen," he continued.

The prototype was made a few millimeters thick E-ink technology used in the Kindle electronic book from Amazon. And then combined with a flexible sensor technology and touch screen to draw or write.

The prototype was made to investigate how easy it is to fold and extend tool like this.

Version was initially linked to a laptop computer for to translate and record.

Dr. Vertegaal foresee the use of wide version PaperPhone possibility of creating a paperless office closer to realization.

PaperPhone prototype will be shown May 10 at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver.

At the same time the research team will show off a device called Snaplet. This tool will feature different functions depending on how he folded.