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Researchers at the Human Media Lab Queen's University in Vancouver, Canada, developed a folding phone, the PaperPhone. With a 9.5 inch screen on electronic paper - has a fine handling sensitive circuitry - the prototype has all the features of a smartphone. Folding or pressing surface, you can make and receive calls, check your calendar, listen to music, watch videos and read texts. The device uses Electronic Ink E Ink, the same readers as the Kindle. With all being driven by folding and ringtones, there are no buttons to spoil. The PaperPhone is also more resistant to falls and can serve as a notebook - with a special pen, you can write on the screen. The prototype cost $ 6,000, but the team predicts that the phone reaches the market for $ 100 in 10 years. Today, he represents a breakthrough: it is the first entirely computer folding and the finest existing. The 8.8 mm thick 2 iPad, a tablet finest on the market, equivalent to a stack of 7 PaperPhones. In this aspect may be the real revolution of the newly created gadget. And, as stated by the director of the Human Media Lab, Roel Vertegaal, the possibility of computers even more impressive: "Imagine a wallpaper that displays news. Offices may have batteries on hand for electronic documents instead of the actual prints. "