Smartphones are as thin as paper

Canadian scientists have introduced a new smartphone that helps users recognize incoming calls or incoming messages by smoothly sliding the corners or bending them.

The MorePhone , which looks like a sheet of paper, can have different motions for the user to distinguish the type of communication sent, such as bending the ends when incoming calls, Flip one of the corners up when there is a message or a new e-mail.

The MorePhone's visual cues help the user to receive timely information and are not dependent on the phone for ringing or vibrating mode. If you want to cancel the call, simply make it flat again.

Dr. Roel Vertegaal of Queen's University has been researching this technology since 2008. By 2011, he first published a paper-thin smartphone called PaperPhone . In early 2013, researchers pursued this technology for tablets called PaperTab - thin devices that can bend like paper.

Dr. Vertegaal said flexible screen technology is emerging in the computer world and information technology. He hopes that in the next 5 to 10 years, phones with screens can bend and show that objects in three dimensions will reach the consumer. MorePhone technology was introduced at the recent IT conference in Paris, France.