You can turn pages of a book, and launch an explosive angry bird into the sky, by grabbing this phone at the ends and bending it the smartphone. May 06, 2011 the futuristic phone is about as thin as a credit card but more flexible, less than onesixth the weight of an iphone 4 and has a 3. Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut. An advanced thinfilm flexible paper computer has been developed through collaborative efforts of researchers at queens university in ontario, canada, and arizona state university. May 04, 2011 paper iphone could be next mobile revolution. The smart phone that wants you to bend it cbc news. Thanks to an ultra thin film screen, users will be able to bend the smartphone just as they would a book or piece of paper. May 05, 2011 with thinfilm technology, you can wear your phone right on your wrist. Bitdrone prototypes hover around calvin rubens, roel. May 01, 2014 the inspiration for the project came from, you guessed it, paper.
Roel vertegaal, ceo of human media lab, inc who has worked with flexible and folding displays for 15 years including the influential paperfold folding smartphone, thinks that. Paperfold is a foldable, transformable smartphone prototype. A team of researchers at the queens university human media lab put together this flexible, ultrathin phone out of electronic paper. Researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone telegraph. Byron lahey1,2, audrey girouard1, winslow burleson2 and roel vertegaal 1. Bendable phones right around the corner, says samsung. The bendiest smartphone ever the end of the shattered screen. He is a professor at queens universitys school of computing where he directs the human media lab and is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers, with paperwindows 2004, paperphone 2010 and papertab. In these gifs, you can see how physical gestures allow users to interact with the hardware, as roel vertegaal, one of the researchers, explains in a press release. Asu flexible display center teams on paperphone phoenix. Vertegaal is set to officially unveil his paper computer at the association of computing machinerys computer human. May 05, 2011 described by its inventor, roel vertegaal of queens university, as a flexible iphone, the paper computer is scheduled to be unveiled on may 10 at the association of computing machinerys chi. With thinfilm technology, you can wear your phone right on your wrist.
Paper thin, flexible smartphones will make iphone obsolete, researcher says. Experts say it could soon replace everything from tablet to tv screens. Human media lab director roel vertegaal says on the human media lab website that flexible smartphones will be in the hands of. This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper, vertegaal says. May 06, 2011 professor roel vertegall and the team at the universitys human media lab have been engaged in creating a working prototype of a paper thin phone, which comes complete with many smartphone style. Using several papertabs makes it much easier to work with multiple documents, says roel vertegaal, director of queens. The flexible oled display allows users to interact with the phone by twisting. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen. The smartphone prototype paper phone does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls.
Apr 24, 2019 roel vertegaal, ceo of human media lab, inc who has worked with flexible and folding displays for 15 years including the influential paperfold folding smartphone, thinks that samsungs decision. The development of electronic paper computers that can adopt similar qualities to paper has been an enduring research goal for our team, he said. When held flat in the hand it is a pda with notepad functionality. Proceedings of the 6th international conference on tangible and embedded interaction 2012, kingston, ontario, canada, february 1922, 2012.
Roel vertegaal also had opined that the paperless future is round the corner and maybe within five years, it may revolutionize the whole world with its interactive paper technology. When held in a concave shape snaplet functions as a phone. Flexible electronic paper epaper based displays were the first flexible. May 08, 2011 researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone. Khaama press was established in october 2010 by a highly team of young, professional and committed. Snaplet is a paper computer in the form of a bracelet. This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper, said the devices creator, roel vertegaal, director of the universitys human media lab, in a statement. Flexible paper phone will be the phone of the future. Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut bbc news. Professor roel vertegall and the team at the universitys human media lab have been engaged in creating a working prototype of a paperthin phone, which comes complete with many smartphone style.
Find email addresses and use our people search form. Mobile devices with flexible electronic paper displays. Human media lab introduces shapechanging smartphone w video. Roel vertegaal has been working on this cuttingedge concept with the help of audrey girouard, byron lahey and winslow burleson. Enter the slim paperphone technology australia the. New paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones. May 06, 2011 a prototype flexible smart phone made of electronic paper has been created by canadian researchers. Not only is it easy to hold, roel vertegaal, associate professor of computer science and director of the human media lab at queens university said, the durable material is better for. The khaama press news agency is the largest online news service for afghanistan. Bending a corner of the screen, for example, will enable the paperphone to turn pages of an e book on its display. Queens universitys roel vertegaal says thinfilm phone will make. Roel vertegaal is a dutchcanadian interaction designer, scientist, musician and. The new display is as thin as a piece of paper and can be twisted and bent without breaking.
Kingston, ontario, may 8 2011 the worlds first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. Human media lab has 1 current team member, director roel vertegaal. Roel vertegaal, the director of the human media lab at queens university, says a smartphone with a bendable screen will open the door to new kinds of interactions with computers. Paul strohmeier, jesse burstyn, roel vertegaal, effects of display sizes on a scrolling task using a cylindrical smartwatch, proceedings of the 17th international conference on humancomputer interaction with mobile devices and services adjunct, august 2427, 2015, copenhagen, denmark. The futuristic phone is about as thin as a credit card but more flexible, less than onesixth the weight of an iphone 4 and has a 3. May 06, 2011 inventor roel vertegaal, the director of queens university human media lab in kingston, ontario, said. Enter the paperphone, a paperthin smartphone capable of doing everything your current phone can except have a color screentake highres photosnot accidentally get thrown away like a hamburger wrapper. The bendiest smartphone ever the end of the shattered. Examining input techniques for electronic book readers with. Bbc news flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut.
The papertab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. Mar 31, 2016 human media lab director roel vertegaal says on the human media lab website that flexible smartphones will be in the hands of consumers within five years. The inspiration for the project came from, you guessed it, paper. Most researchers use their institutional email address as their researchgate login. Living in the future queens gazette queens university. The paperthin phone signals with a curved bottom left corner. Everything samsung needs to fix to stop the galaxy fold. Researchers create that electronic paper stuff from. May 07, 2011 enter the paperphone, a paper thin smartphone capable of doing everything your current phone can except have a color screentake highres photosnot accidentally get thrown away like a hamburger wrapper.
Everything samsung needs to fix to stop the galaxy fold from. A prototype flexible smart phone made of electronic paper has been created by canadian researchers. May 06, 2011 a team of researchers at the queens university human media lab put together this flexible, ultrathin phone out of electronic paper. Roel vertegaal at queens universitys human media lab in canada. Flexible phones corners curl to tell you whos calling. Spencer, ylva fernaeus, audrey girouard, sergi jorda. Just imagine, tablet computers you can roll up like a newspaper, or.
Roel vertegaal, professor of humancomputer interaction hci at queens universitys school of computing as well as lab director, expanded on what drove their research. Roel vertegaal phd queens university, kingston queensu. Since the paper phone can store a lot of documentsinformation digitally, offices may turn paperless soon, no longer using papers or printers and in no time. Researchers create that electronic paper stuff from minority.
Paper iphone could be next mobile revolution technology. Forget tapping, navigate this flexible phone prototype by. Roel vertegaal also had opined that the paper less future is round the corner and maybe within five years, it may revolutionize the whole world with its interactive paper technology. This represents a completely new way of physical interaction with flexible smartphones, roel vertegaal, director of the human media lab, told. A flexible display is an electronic visual display which is interest from numerous consumer. T2 29th annual chi conference on human factors in computing systems, chi 2011. May 07, 2011 the research and experiments conducted in association with arizona state university has lead to some breakthrough discoveries into the use of flexible electronic paper displays and eink, which enables users to communicate with digital devices using programmable bend gestures. Forget tapping, navigate this flexible phone prototype by bending. May 06, 2011 flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut. Paperphone bends, flexes, makes gumby jealous pcworld. The worlds first interactive paper computer or phone has been developed in canada, and it is set to revolutionise the world of interactive computing. Researchers create paperthin cell phone consumer reports. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years. Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut the.
Bend it three years from now, and it could snap a photo or turn a page in an e book. Bendable phones right around the corner, says samsung exec imagine a tablet computer you could roll up like a newspaper. The millimetres thick prototype is built from the same eink technology found in amazons kindle e book reader and this is bonded to flex sensors and a touchscreen that interprets drawings and text written on it. This computer looks, feels, and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper, says roel vertegaal, the inventor and director of the human media lab at queens university. Roel vertegaal, says the development of electronic paper computers that can adopt similar qualities to. Paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets a new flexible computer that looks and feels like a sheet of paper could replace smartphones in.
New paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and. While tech companies today are arguing about the thinness of their devices, a collaboration between the queens university in ontario and arizona stat. Calls are dropped by returning its shape to a flat or convex shape. Roel vertegaal, director of queens universitys human media lab, the phone does everything a normal smartphone can. Paperphone flexible smartphone prototype, responds to. Called paperphone, its described as a flexible iphone by its inventor, roel vertegaal, the director of the human media lab at queens university. May 09, 2011 paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets a new flexible computer that looks and feels like a sheet of paper could replace smartphones in five years, say its developers. Feb 17, 2016 you can turn pages of a book, and launch an explosive angry bird into the sky, by grabbing this phone at the ends and bending it the smartphone prototype, named reflex and designed by academics. Queens universitys roel vertegaal says thinfilm phone will make current smartphone obsolete in 5 to 10 years. He is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers. This flexible prototype is a glimpse at your future phone. Kingston, ontario, may 8 2011 the worlds first interactive paper computer is. Inventor roel vertegaal, the director of queens university human media lab in kingston, ontario, said. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years, said creator dr roel vertegaal.
Proceedings of the sigchi conference on human factors in computing systems. Described by its inventor, roel vertegaal of queens university, as a flexible iphone, the paper computer is scheduled to be unveiled on may 10 at the association of. Paperphone flexible smartphone prototype, responds to touch. The verge this flexible phone prototype lets you flick through digital books. Human media lab introduces shapechanging smartphone w. Roel vertegaal, ceo of human media lab, inc who has worked with flexible and folding displays for 15 years including the influential paperfold folding smartphone, thinks that samsungs decision to place the flexible display on the inside, like a book, might be the primary cause of its technical problems. Clever bend sensor technology will make smartphone use easier. Researchers officially unveiled the concept in february at a conference in the netherlands. When in a convex shape on the wrist, snaplet functions as a watch and media player. Jan 06, 20 the papertab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper.
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