World's First Flexible Smartphone Invented in Canada

Source: PCMag

Annoyed by the bulge your cell phone creates in your pocket? Thanks to researchers in Canada, those telltale lumps could become a thing of the past—a group at Queen's University in Canada has created the first smartphone you can bend.

The so-called PaperPhone is a only a prototype right now, but its creator, Roel Vertegaal, believes the device, and flexible display technologies in general, will become commonplace in the future.

"There have been only three display revolutions," Vertegaal told PCMag. "The first was CRT, the second was LCD, and the third is flexible displays. When I first got wind of them, I realized they were going to change everything."

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"There are some real benefits for having this has your smartphone," says Vertegaal. "One of the issues with smartphones is that they don't fit well in your pocket, when you drop them they break, they hold like bricks in your hand, they're not very lightweight, and most importantly their screen real estate is limited. What's cool about these screens is that you can unfold them."

Read more: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385010,00.asp

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How cool is that?

Bet we can sell ad space--finally, an upside to obesity!

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And surf the web...

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