Researchers at the Canadian Human Media Laboratory, Queens University in Ontario, have made a full-featured smartphone flexible electronic paper.
Paper phone can dial and receive calls, play music and read an e-book. However, in contrast, adapts to form pockets or purses, and some actions can be made by it to bend in certain ways.
This device has a flexible screen diagonal 9.5 cm (3.7 inches) made from e-paper company E-Ink, below which the flexible printed circuit with resistive sensors bending. These sensors allow the phone is programmed to recognize different types of bending, which then result in actions such as viewing menus, dialing, dialing songs or perform some other function.
When it is not in use, the paper phone does not waste electricity. Vertegalov team has made a similar device, called Snaplet, which can be worn as a band on the forearm. Works like a clock when the convex curve (arm), it becomes a personal digital assistant when the plane, and can be used as a phone when he bent concave.
