Will the PaperPhone replace your iPhone?

[TheDrakeMan]

Forget the latest Droid — and the iPhone 5, too. Researchers at Canada's Queen's University have created a flexible, super-thin phone made out of electronic paper. (Watch a video about the phone below.) The PaperPhone purports to have all the capabilities of your standard smartphone — playing music, displaying e-books, making calls — but with far less bulk. Rather than relying on a touch-screen interface to type in data, users bend the phone to trigger sensors that navigate through menus. The 3.7-inch screen uses an e-ink display similar to the Amazon Kindle. "Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years," says the phone's creator, Dr. Roel Vertegaal.

http://theweek.com/article/index/215...ce-your-iphone

[ihsv]

No

[JWZguy]

Can it play Angry Birds?

[BuddyRey]

This actually sounds pretty exciting. But with technology being nudged more and more in the direction of looking and feeling like paper, I can't help but wonder why more people don't see the simplicity and zen charm of a regular old inkpen and notebook anymore.

[Sola_Fide]

Isnt it sad to know that governments have so stifled innovation that paper phones are the next big thing? We could have had light phones and air phones by now..

[kill the banks]

go Queens go ...

[bwlibertyman]

I find it weird that you have to bend the phone. Why can't you just push on the screen?

[VBRonPaulFan]

looks harder to use/navigate through than a normal touch screen phone. not sure it'd be popular. being super thin and very lightweight is cool, but it looks like more of a hassle to use than anything else.