Telecommunications (108)
The future? It's all about paper.
Queen’s University Human Media Lab has developed the PaperPhone. This mobile computing device has all the functionality of a smartphone, yet it's as flexible as paper and uses no power when the user is not interacting with it.
Why it matters
The PaperPhone may very well revolutionise the world of computing. Portable, lightweight, energy-efficient, the PaperPhone is a genuine ecological innovation.
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