Future phone

In recent years, mobile phones and tablet PCs can be folded like paper and can be stored in a pocket. Currently, the prototype of this device already exists.

Director of Human Media Lab Roel Vertegaal at Queen's University will demonstrate a prototype device that is named PaperPhone at the conference of the Association of Computing Machinery's Computer Human Interaction in Vancouver.

"This is the future. Everything will look and feel like these next five years, "he said. This computer looks, feels and operates like a small, interactive paper, he added. "You can interact with folded way to turn it into a phone or a sheet of paper to write with a pen. "

Views PaperPhone looks like a thin flexible screen measuring 3.7 inch. When the document can be stored on a bigger screen, the offices will not need paper or the printer again, says Vertegaal.

"paperless office immediately realized. Everything can be stored digitally and you can accumulate this device like a regular paper or put it around the table, "he added.

Study of thin films that can be bent computer will be published in the conference. In addition to paper cell phone, Vertegaal computer will also show called Snaplet bracelet.