A team of researchers at Queens University Human Media Lab put together this flexible, ultra-thin smartphone prototype out of electronic paper.
The 3.7″ flexible electrophoretic (E Ink) display does not consume electricity when it is not refreshed. Thinfilm sensors allow the phone to respond to bending of the screen to navigate pages in ebooks, play or pause mp3s, make phone calls, or navigate apps. A flexible wacom tablet allows users to draw on the screen with a pen as if it were a sheet of paper.
“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.
The Paper Phone prototype will be on display tomorrow May 10th at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver. Check out the video below.