PaperFold is a New Bendable e Ink Smartphone

Smartphones running an e-paper display are really rare. The YotaPhone out of Russia was the first commercially viable product, while we are still waiting on the Onyx Phone. Soon the industry may have flexible and bendable e-ink technology to employ on their devices, thanks to Paperfold. Queen's professor Roel Vertegaal and student Antonio Gomes have introduced the Paperfold smartphone. The shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up to three flexible electrophoretic displays to provide extra screen real estate when needed. Displays are detachable such that users can fold the device into various shapes that can range from an ultra notebook shape to a foldout map. It will be powered by an E Ink touchscreen display provide over a month of battery life. PaperFold automatically recognizes its shape and changes its graphics to provide different functionality upon shape changes. For example, folding the device into an ultra notebook form factor opens up a keyboard on the bottom screen. This technology is basically a proof of concept, but does demonstrate the core functionality via Google Maps. Roel Vertegaal who is a professor at Queens University has years of experience in the e-Paper space. In 2013 he demonstrated the PaperTab at CES, in conjunction with Plastic Logic and Intel. Likely this new bendable screen technology will have better practical applications in the smartphone industry, unlike the Plastic Logic tech which went nowhere. PaperFold is a New Bendable e Ink Smartphone is a post from: Good e-Reader

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