Human Media Lab introduces shape-changing smartphone (w/ Video)
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 14:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —After hearing about the work at a premier media lab in Canada, suddenly"smartphone" becomes a very limiting word, incomplete in describing the instrument that has been created as a handheld map, book, menu or whatever else rendering of information you may need that just happens to have a phone function too. The Human Media Lab at Canada's Queen's University have come up with PaperFold, as a multi-display shape changing smartphone. The PaperFold uses up to three detachable display tiles. Each tile has a flexible E-ink display and flexible 3D-printed substrate with embedded sensors.