Flexible PaperPhone desires to get bent off form (video)

We like our smartphones (partially) because they’re flexible, within the sense that they’re mighty multitasking machines. Researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario Canada, however, want flexible phones in a literal sense — less five-tool player , and more master contortionist . Using a ductile e-ink display and elastic electronic underpinnings, they created a tool called the PaperPhone that literally bends to its user’s will. Curling the corners of the device is not just for show, either, as folding the telephone is how users navigate menus and make calls. We’re not completely sold at the idea of a bend-based UI, but we’re definitely digging the lithe and light-weight phone form factor. Video of the recent flexi-phone is after the break.

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