Paper computer by humanmedialab.
“this is the future. everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator roel vertegaal, the director of queen’s university human media lab,. “this computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. you interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.”
Not certain how I feel about this…
Architect Emilio Ambasz published a series of speculative projects in 1990 called “soft-tech” that imagined soft, pliable, personal mobile technologies. They first came to light as a set of missives in ID magazine, where the text and image sketches were much more provocative than those that appear at the link above. They were likely influenced by a visit by Ambasz to the Cranbrook Academy of Art where a graduate student in industrial design was imagining digital interfaces embedded in thick wool felt blankets.