Canadian researchers have announced that on the 10th May they will reveal the prototype of flexible smartphone made from electronic paper.The device emerged from the collaboration between researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University, Canada and Arizona State University's Motivational Environments Research group. It boasts all the same features as a normal smartphone, and triggers different features when it is bent, folded and flexed.
Creator, Dr Roel Vertegaal believes that "Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years".
The prototype, that is only a millimeter thick, is built from the same e-ink technology found in Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. They have bonded this to flex sensors and a touch screen that interprets drawings and text written on it. The prototype will go on display at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Vancouver alongside a device they call the Snaplet.
The Snaplet is designed by the same team, and operates as a wrist strap that can be manipulated in a similar way to the phone. It is a watch when convex, a PDA when flat and a phone when concave.
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