Paddle : Highly Deformable Phone inspired by Rubik's Magic

Imagine if you could mold your mobile phone into your desired dimensions on a whim - Paddle Smartphone will make it true. IN the interest of creating a device flexible enough to transform from game controller to smartphone to tablet, a team of researchers from the Hasselt University have created 'Paddle', a device based on engineering principles behind 3-D puzzles.

Inspired by the Rubik's Magic,the team has been developing a puzzling prototype that can take 15 different shapes to date. If a Paddle user wanted to go from a smartphone to tablet, he or she would need to make just a few simple folds to get the device in its current state into the appropriate model the user wants it to be in.

The topology of the current Paddle prototype uses an optical tracking system with a projector for visual output. This obviously, impedes the device's mobility, but the group figures advancements in flexible electronics research over the next 5 to 10 years will allow them to jump from this system to something a bit more appropriate; a paddle that is entirely self-contained and uses integrated displays.

The novelty of Paddle is all the many forms it can take on. It can clam up to serve as a flip phone. It can also be folded up into a ring, and made into a book-like form so that the user can download a piece of literature and leaf through the pages as they would with a normal book.
Further down the road, the group intends to further explore how the system can assist in training users' muscle memory to do these complicated transformations unconsciously in a fraction of a second.
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