Origami Cell Phone

Written by Kenson on May 28th, 2006
Filed under Wireless Industry News

Do you always wish that you cell phone screen can be much bigger so that you can have everything you want on a screen without navigating up and down? Well, with origami paper folding technique, you can a have a big screen without sacrificing a small form factor.

Is it a real phone? Sure not, but this is a great concept which is developed at Inventables and inspired by the e-paper developed by Mag-Ink and the Popout Map. So we can watch movies in our cellular phones on a 12″ screen instead of 2.5″ screen oneday in the future! How cool?

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2 Responses to “Origami Cell Phone”

Innovative Dual Sceen Interface Cellular Phone | HandCellPhone.com Says:

June 2nd, 2006 at 10:14 am

[...] As we have noted in the previous post about Origami cell phone that features origami paper folding technique that allows you to fold and unfold a big screen of your cell phone, we all realize one important fact which is the 2.5″ screen on that we have for our cellular phone isn’t enough for us as we all want to have a bigger screen BUT without sacrificing a small form factor. Origami cell phone idea is great, but this idea may take years to be released into market. Instead of coming out fancy idea, Alloy studio developed an innovative prototype hand phone called the Polygon which features a dual-screen display similar to the Nintendo DS. [...]
Internet Evolution - Alan Reiter - Cellphones Sound Death Knell for Guidebooks Says:

November 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

[...] much easier to see. Microprojectors will enable maps to cover entire walls. Perhaps the cellphone’s screen will fold out like [...]