PaperPhone

Smartphone flexible and fine as some paper

Canadian researchers have just presented the prototype of a mobile phone made by electronic paper: PaperPhone.

The gadget is surprising! It is also thick as a sheet of paper, transparent, and we can fold it as a plastic film. Nevertheless, in spite of his miniature thickness, it allows to realize all the basic operations of a mobile phone: emit and take calls, send SMS, listen to music and read e-books.

“All the telephones of the market will be like that in less than 5 years”, predicted its creator, Doctor Roel Vertegaal. Going farther, he declares that in the future, the paper could completely disappear from offices.

Turning one of its corners allows turning the page of an e-book, for example. We can also write above with a stilet.

 It is connected at the moment with a computer, which interprets and records the way the persons manipulate it.

A prototype was already built, and it works. It was conceived thanks to the same technology (e-ink) as Kindle of Amazon that is connected to sensors of flexion, and to touch-sensitive screen which interprets drawings and writings realized on it.

The prototype will be presented by its creators during the conference Computer Human Interaction in Vancouver, on May 10th.

PaperPhone

Smartphone flexible and fine as some paper

Canadian researchers have just presented the prototype of a mobile phone made by electronic paper: PaperPhone.

The gadget is surprising! It is also thick as a sheet of paper, transparent, and we can fold it as a plastic film. Nevertheless, in spite of his miniature thickness, it allows to realize all the basic operations of a mobile phone: emit and take calls, send SMS, listen to music and read e-books.

“All the telephones of the market will be like that in less than 5 years”, predicted its creator, Doctor Roel Vertegaal. Going farther, he declares that in the future, the paper could completely disappear from offices.

Turning one of its corners allows turning the page of an e-book, for example. We can also write above with a stilet.

 It is connected at the moment with a computer, which interprets and records the way the persons manipulate it.

A prototype was already built, and it works. It was conceived thanks to the same technology (e-ink) as Kindle of Amazon that is connected to sensors of flexion, and to touch-sensitive screen which interprets drawings and writings realized on it.

The prototype will be presented by its creators during the conference Computer Human Interaction in Vancouver, on May 10th.

Apple

Updated iOS 4.3.3

Apple proposes the download of the update iOS 4.3.3 for its mobile devices (iPod 4G, iPhone 3GS / 4 and iPad 1*2) having for main feature the modification of the collections protected by our movements.

Apple had made the promise, with the modification of the firmware and the publication of the update iOS 4.3.3 arrived to show in the whole world that Apple knows how to hold word when he makes a commitment.

Henceforth, with the iOS 4.3.3, you will be followed always in the track, but the savings will keep the history of your movements only on the last 7 days thanks to the decrease of the size of the mask (while the previous firmwares kept this history of pursue all our movements over ONE YEAR!), but the real good piece of news is that no copy of saving of this file of follow-up will be made on your PC and Mac during the synchronization automatic of your devices, thus finished the transfer of all the data protected by our mobile devices on computers.

Now, the hostile software and the applications cannot know any more where we live and\or work, our PC will thus contain no more data of all our movements, a weight less which removes Apple of our shoulders.

Apple

Updated iOS 4.3.3

Apple proposes the download of the update iOS 4.3.3 for its mobile devices (iPod 4G, iPhone 3GS / 4 and iPad 1*2) having for main feature the modification of the collections protected by our movements.

Apple had made the promise, with the modification of the firmware and the publication of the update iOS 4.3.3 arrived to show in the whole world that Apple knows how to hold word when he makes a commitment.

Henceforth, with the iOS 4.3.3, you will be followed always in the track, but the savings will keep the history of your movements only on the last 7 days thanks to the decrease of the size of the mask (while the previous firmwares kept this history of pursue all our movements over ONE YEAR!), but the real good piece of news is that no copy of saving of this file of follow-up will be made on your PC and Mac during the synchronization automatic of your devices, thus finished the transfer of all the data protected by our mobile devices on computers.

Now, the hostile software and the applications cannot know any more where we live and\or work, our PC will thus contain no more data of all our movements, a weight less which removes Apple of our shoulders.

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