A flexible mobile phone as thin as paper

Can you imagine a mobile phone as thin as paper, can be bent, manipulated and squeezed without breaking it? For Queens University has made ​​it possible, thanks to a spreadsheet translucent. It is best to interact with the interface, you only need to turn a corner to run commands as other people call, write, among others. The result is amazing:

The phone also uses electronic ink, much like what is done with the readers of e-books. Usability testing has been so successful that Roel Vertegaa l, director of the Human Media Lab at the University of Queens, is optimistic about this technology, even says that the phones will be so in five or ten years.

Of course, from the lab to the shelves is a long way. This device is still in its pilot phase and would cost hundreds of millions of dollars in development to bring this concept to market. Although they look very interesting applications of this device, I can not imagine in the near future that people replace their regular phones.

However, the design of a device that accepts instructions only with the position opens up interesting options. A phone completely flexible means fewer fractures in the team as well as damage to the screen, among other myriad of problems we face daily with our devices. Would you be willing to buy one of these? I do think it seriously.

A flexible mobile phone as thin as paper written in ALT1040 on 6 May, 2011 by Pepe Flores
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