Flexible smartphones can be coming earlier than you observed
Bending the tool will turn thru the pages of an ebook, and the more you bend, the faster it flips. In every other example, you may play angry Birds through bending the device to slingshot a bird, with the rubber bend stretching tighter as you flex it. Thanks to the voice-coil haptic automobiles, you may precisely "experience" the pages flipping or the irritated Birds slingshot stretching out for a release. The haptics also allow "eyes-loose navigation, making it simpler for users to hold song of in which [you] are in a document," consistent with Queens Media Lab director Roel Vertegaal.

The researchers plan to expose off the device at a human-pc interplay conference these days within the Netherlands, and trust commercial gadgets can be to be had within five years. Based totally on the convincing prototype, it would not seem not possible that the tech could arrive even quicker