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paper-thin phones

I'm holding out for the neurointerface chip where all I have to do is THINK about calling somebody and incoming calls immediately become memories ;)
 
I don't get it. You can't hold a paper-thin phone easily, and how is flexing it or flipping a corner easier than using a touchscreen? Anyways, it won't be paperthin when it comes out, unless the battery and guts are tethered with a wire to the display, or something, and that would suck. I don't see any point in this thing,
 
Just imagine the battery life on that baby. @10% battery after 0.01 seconds of activity!
 
Roze said:
Just imagine the battery life on that baby. @10% battery after 0.01 seconds of activity!
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Actually, e-ink gets insanely good battery life. Agreed with another poster above that paper thin isn't very ergonomic. Thin is good but not that thin. Anyway I think this prototype's propose is to see if it's practical for people to use.
 
Hrethgir said:
I don't get it. You can't hold a paper-thin phone easily, and how is flexing it or flipping a corner easier than using a touchscreen? Anyways, it won't be paperthin when it comes out, unless the battery and guts are tethered with a wire to the display, or something, and that would suck. I don't see any point in this thing,
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My thoughts exactly. I look at that video where he bends the device to advance to the next item and can't help thinking that a touch screen interface is just way better. You only need to tap the screen with a finger on a touch screen. On the flex paper, you have to grip the corner with a few fingers and bend it.
 
I've read about paper-thin applications for a monitor (think 30") that you can actually fold and crease, and stick it in your pocket. When you unfold, the creases disappear, and you can put whatever content you want on your sheet. widgets, news feeds, calendar, email, whatever. All powered by a thin battery that's also embedded in the sheet. Possibly charged by solar power. Hang it on a wall, put it on a desktop, or hold it like a newspaper.

same technology as the phone featured in this article, but much more ambitious, and probably more practical. Anyway. we should all see this stuff come to fruition in our lifetimes...
 
Hrethgir said:
I don't get it. You can't hold a paper-thin phone easily, and how is flexing it or flipping a corner easier than using a touchscreen? Anyways, it won't be paperthin when it comes out, unless the battery and guts are tethered with a wire to the display, or something, and that would suck. I don't see any point in this thing,
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It a proof of concept. Use this technology to fit even more into a "normal" sized phone. That's just one application. I am sure manufacturers will think of clever ways to make everyone want one.
 
Can double as a straw if necessary, just roll it up. More sanitary than a $100 bill. What would be the name for a call that was inadvertently placed this way?

In a pinch it could be used to replace toilet paper. Gives new meaning to the term "booty call".
 
noah way said:
In a pinch it could be used to replace toilet paper. Gives new meaning to the term "booty call".
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When people start considering using this as contingency for when you run out of toilet paper, it speaks greatly about its usefulness.
 
Hrethgir said:
I don't get it. You can't hold a paper-thin phone easily, and how is flexing it or flipping a corner easier than using a touchscreen? Anyways, it won't be paperthin when it comes out, unless the battery and guts are tethered with a wire to the display, or something, and that would suck. I don't see any point in this thing,
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I recall this idea years ago. Saw a mockup of a pager that could be used as a bookmark or fit into notebooks (paper, card, spiral-bound, not PC) and made cheap enough they could be given away as an imprinted ad specialty item.

What is cool is it shows people are thinking and perhaps we will not see a paper thin phone, it might lead to other things.
 
Imagine paper thin devices that can display music and video. Think of those newspapers in Harry Potter with the moving images. Imagine a newspaper reader that you plug in each night and the next day, you see the actual car crashes, storms, the war over there in multiple places.

Your ads come to life; you see the recipes being prepared by cooks.

These things start with prototypes and ideas the OP posted.
 
a great use for this technology would be an ultra portable keyboard you could roll or fold up.
 
Meh, from the looks of this video I don't see this replacing all of our smartphones in the next 4 to 5 years. Sure you can bend and crease your way through your phone book, but this in no way takes the place of a touch screen or keyboard for surfing the internet. Which is what smartphones are for now a days.

In it's current form I don't even see it taking over dumbphones. If you have 300 contacts in your address book, who wants to bend that damn thing 299 times just to get down to your 'Verizon Wireless' contact. Ok maybe this is a great idea for kids toys or something, but I don't see the future of our superphones being taken over by this...

YouTube - Paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets

I too saw some early video's of this tech two or three years ago. They were saying it would allow OEM's to easily produce a phone that would fit in your pocket, that you could then roll or fold out into a 7 inch screen or so. I like that idea. But this? I honestly don't see what they're trying to accomplish with this 'bend and fold' idea. Seems as worthless as that new keyboard they came up with for cell phones that you had to loop around that 't' layout in circular motions...

If you're going to reinvent the wheel, shouldn't it be better than the one we have now?
 
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