The actual engineering behind this is neat. The prototype nor demo video seemed very alluring.<p>Perhaps someone will take this idea and do something interesting with it. At the moment I don't see it improving upon the current smartphone.
While it's dangerous to make predictions about the future of technology, I don't foresee any mobile product coming out that isn't "flat." How is anyone supposed to fit that into a pocket? Even in a purse or messenger bag it would be unwieldy.
What would be the killer application for this technique?<p>I don't see the advantages, because the thing is clunkier than a smartphone and handling it seems odd.<p>What I want is a smartphone the size of a credit-card, that can project a bigger screen on a flat surface (e.g. table or sheet of paper).
The technology is cool, and I can see the flexible displays being used for putting displays on oddly shaped surfaces, and for other applications where you have somewhere a screen can roll into.<p>But the concept video feels like an April fools joke, or something you would see from the 90s before they came up with better UX. It just doesn't seem as useable or robust as a simple flat surface. Perhaps this technology will allow phones to be even thinner.
Still waiting for Caprica Paper<p><a href="http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/02/25/caprica-paper/" rel="nofollow">http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/02/25/caprica-paper...</a>