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PaperFold Smartphone Can Be Unfolded Into a Laptop, Map or Tablet

New Delhi: Scientists have developed they call the world's first foldable smartphone that changes to a tablet and a notebook using a set of screens and hinges.The shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up



"Books use folding as both a navigational and space saving technique, and paper maps have malleable display sizes.

"The PaperFold smartphone adopts folding techniques that makes paper so versatile, and employs them to change views or functionality of a smartphone, as well as alter its screen real estate in a flexible manner. PaperFold demonstrates how form could equal function in malleable mobile devices," Vertegaal said.

The PaperFold was unveiled at the ACM CHI 2014 conference in Toronto.

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