The PaperPhone lets people make calls by bending the epaper.(telegraph.co.uk) |
A smartphone made from electronic paper has been demonstrated by researchers in Canada. The PaperPhone is flexible and can be controlled by being bent, written on or used as a touchscreen. The PaperPhone, built to determine how people use a flexible device, is a collaboration between researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, Arizona State University, USA, researchers from the E-Ink Corporation. “This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” Roel Vertegaal, director of the human media lab at Queen’s, said. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper.” The epaper sheet, which uses the same e-Ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle ereader, is just millimetres thick and can be used to make phone calls, read ebooks and play music. The researchers say that this technology could eventually mean the end of paper and printers. Dr Vertegaal said: “The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other, just like a stack of paper.” The PaperPhone will be displayed at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver, Canada, on May 10. (Read by Lee Hannon. Lee Hannon is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies)
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加拿大研究人員日前研發(fā)了一款使用電子紙制作的智能“紙手機(jī)”。 這款“紙手機(jī)”非常輕薄,而且還可以通過彎曲、書寫、或當(dāng)作觸摸屏使用進(jìn)行相應(yīng)操作。 該手機(jī)是由位于加拿大金斯敦的女王大學(xué)、美國亞利桑那州立大學(xué)、以及“電子墨水”公司三家機(jī)構(gòu)的研究人員共同研制的,用以明確人們?nèi)绾问褂幂p薄可彎曲的電子產(chǎn)品。 女王大學(xué)人類媒體實驗室主任羅爾?維特加爾說:“‘紙手機(jī)’將引領(lǐng)未來的手機(jī)潮流。五年內(nèi),同類產(chǎn)品都將有相似外觀和觸感。它的外觀、觸感和使用方式都像一張很小的互動卡片?!?/p> 這款紙手機(jī)僅有幾毫米厚,使用的電子墨水技術(shù)和亞馬遜Kindle電子書相同,可以打電話、閱讀電子書、聽音樂。 研究人員稱,這種技術(shù)將終結(jié)紙和印刷時代。維特加爾博士說:“無紙化辦公就可以這樣實現(xiàn)。所有信息都可以實現(xiàn)電子存儲,你還可以把這些小計算機(jī)摞在一起,就像一疊紙?!?/p> 研究人員將于5月10日在加拿大溫哥華舉辦的電子計算機(jī)協(xié)會2011人機(jī)交互會議上正式推介這款手機(jī)。 相關(guān)閱讀 日本推出地震預(yù)警服務(wù) 手機(jī)可預(yù)報地震 美國:網(wǎng)絡(luò)和手機(jī)成中期選舉報道先鋒 手機(jī)輻射有多強(qiáng)?監(jiān)測軟件可測量 (中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 Julie 編輯: 馮明惠) |
Vocabulary: paperless office: 無紙化辦公 |