Flexible future: Forget the iPhone, here's the smartphone made out of 'paper' that will shape with your pocket [VIDEO]

Daily Mail 05/05/2011 19:09

Prototype: The PaperPhone has a flexible electronic display, is extremely lightweight, made out of a thin-film, and can do everything a smartphone currently does

In an industry where unbreakable and smaller are best, the world's first interactive paper computer looks set to dominate for years to come.The PaperPhone has a flexible electronic display that is set to herald a new generation of computers.Extremely lightweight and made out of a thin-film, the prototype device can do everything a smartphone currently does.

Flexible future: Forget the iPhone, here's the smartphone made out of 'paper' that will shape with your pocket [VIDEO] - Technology - Mobile Phone

Prototype: The PaperPhone has a flexible electronic display, is extremely lightweight, made out of a thin-film, and can do everything a smartphone currently does

It can store books, play music, send text messages - and, of course, make phone calls.

Most impressively, the PaperPhone uses no power when nobody is interacting with it.

Inventor Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen's University Human Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, said: 'This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years.

'This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper, meaning that when users are reading they don't feel like they are holding a sheet of glass or metal.

'You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.'