Bendable smartphone uses flexible display technology
APR 29, 2013
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026968
Daily Mail : Researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Canada are developing a new smartphone called the morephoneâmdash;a paper-thin device that curls up when someone is calling. Beneath its thin, flexible electrophoretic display are a number of shape memory alloy wires that contract to notify the user of an incoming call, email, or text message. Each corner can be individually programmed to convey which kind of message is coming. The morephone’s shape-shifting notification method was developed as a potentially more useful silent notification than setting a phone on vibrate. A prototype is being presented today at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris.
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