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Mobile Paper Phone

A paper phone is a great leap for humanity, but the first toilet paper smartphone will allow consumers to hangup on unwanted sales calls in style!

Surprisingly, this isn’t a joke. The part about the phone being made out of the same type of paper that comes from trees is. Whatever the stuff this phone is made from sure feels and looks like paper.

This ultimate gadget developed by Human Media Labs, raises lots of questions that only time can answer. At a first glance, the entire concept of a smart phone made out of paper seems ludicrous. Yet, when the overall concept is looked at twice, some ideas about its applications quickly come to mind.

One day, single use smartphones made out of paper, will allow consumers to become instantly connected without having to carry around an expensive electronics device. Mobile casinos could be accessed anytime just by purchasing a card similar to the ones sold at grocery stores for long distance calling or SIM card refills.

Whatever the future may bring, the Paperphone is one of the most unique concept created out of ‘flexible E-ink display connected to elastic circuitry, and protected by a thin sheet of plastic.’ The device has identical functionality to leading smartphones – it can make calls, show files, browse the internet and play music. (no camera yet)

This anorexic device is thinner than a credit card and as flexible as a piece of paper. Mobile casino games play just as flawlessly as if on a top of the line smartphone, which this device surely is. The games are controlled by twisting and bending the Paperphone into different shapes.

Director of Human Media Labs, Roel Vertegaal predicts this to be the future direction of the mobile industry. Within five years, bigger version of the device will exist that according to the director, will eliminate the need of printers or printers and paper in the business environment.

So far the only thing that’s holding back the mass production of the device is the $7000 price tag for this paper smartphone. Once technology takes a few more leaps forward, perhaps we can look forward to a paperless world that conservationist and anti-technology groups always dreamed of.