YouTube Viewers Agree: A Bendable Smartphone is NOT the Future
In case you missed it, there is a Canadian research video making the rounds on YouTube that showcases a prototypical Smart “paperphone.” The idea here is that instead of touch-screening or touch-wiping commands to a device, a user can in future tell a phone what to do by bending a corner or side of it:
Since the video was posted May 3, it has garnered more than 1.7 million views. However, YouTube user comments are largely negative, with people dismissing any practical value for bend-commands.
Until Steve Jobs wraps his mind around the iBend, or the bend idea gets applied to a phone only as a method of preventing breakage, they’re probably right.
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