Researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone

[scooterscot]

Cool. Will be great as an electronic book

Researchers demonstrate flexible epaper phone - Telegraph

The PaperPhone is flexible and can be controlled by being bent, written on or used as a touchscreen.
The PaperPhone, built to determine how people use a flexible device, is a collaboration between researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, Arizona State University, USA, researchers from the E-Ink Corporation.
“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” Roel Vertegaal, director of the human media lab at Queen’s, said. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper.”
The epaper sheet, which uses the same e-Ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle ereader, is just millimetres thick and can be used to make phone calls, read ebooks and play music.
The researchers say that this technology could eventually mean the end of paper and printers. Dr Vertegaal said: “The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other, just like a stack of paper.”

[TimberWolf]

I thought it was great until I watched a video of it in action, where they were controlling it by bending it and that looked awful, but will be cool if it can be touch screened. Also the battery will be somewhat more massive than a sheet of paper unless they've also advanced CPU and screen power sipping technology.

[OwlHoot]

Definitely sounds like the way things are going.

In 30 years you'll be able to crinkle up and stuff an A2 sheet of "plastic memory alloy" in your pocket like a handkerchief, taking up negligible space, and pull it out,
whereupon it will instantly unwrinkle itself and display pages of a downloaded newspaper or ebook.

And at supermarket checkouts there will be stacks of free disposable plastic bags that can display animated ads with HD quality, themed on what is being placed in the bag.