It Gets Thinner: The PaperPhone
It’s called the PaperPhone and its creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab, says, “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.” Dr. Vertegaal will present his “paper” computer on May 10 at 2 pm at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver.
Here are two videos from an article at PhysOrg.
The first video showing the use of “bend” gestures.
The second clip shows the Paper phone as a wrist mounted device, then a notepad and as a phone.
(ED Note: Also impressive is that when flat, the display can be used with a Wacom pen. Pressure sensitive flexible display!)
Addendum: The Human Media Lab’s website is well worth a click/visit.The following is from their introduction:
The Human Media Lab is one of Canada’s premier media laboratories. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!), an exciting new paradigm that allows computers to have any shape or form.
