Candian researchers from Queen University developped a prototype of what they call a Snaplet. The Snaplet is a flexible phone that’s created on a flexible electronic platform. It offers many functions accessible by a simple menu. To access to these functions you can touch by your finger or a pen.
It is an interactive phone, allowing to the inventor Dr Roel Vertegaal :
This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper
He describe the interactive system :
You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.
The next video introduces the next phone generation… Snaplet:
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car repo says:
August 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm (UTC 0)
Nice work with the layout of the blog – it is very easy on the eye