<p>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. <br /><br />“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.<br /><br />The smartphone prototype does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on May 10 at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver.<br /><br />Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.</p>
<p>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. <br /><br />“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.<br /><br />The smartphone prototype does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on May 10 at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver.<br /><br />Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.</p>