The paperless office is here

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110504111147.htm



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."

The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone -- it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket.

Dr. Vertegaal will unveil his paper computer on May 10 at 2 pm at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI 2011 (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Vancouver -- the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers. "The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk" says Dr. Vertegaal.

[Ready4Change]

1. Color E Ink. Soooo want that.

The flexibility is nice. But the availability of color in the E Ink technology is the eye opener for me.

[TexasProgresive]

2. ooh! Psychic paper

From Dr. Who if you didn't know.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Psychic_paper

[DeadEyeDyck]

3. why does everything have to be a metaphor for what it replaces?

A computer is a computer. It is silly to make it act like a piece of paper.

It would be as if someone designed a car that looked and acted like a horse. It would have four legs and run down the road with a klickyty-Clackity sound. It would expell "solid" exhaust and when you approached a red light, you would say, Whoa!!

Happy trails....

[Newest Reality]

4. Maybe, this time

they will get it right.

When they build the factories for these devices, they will probably make the buildings more jump-proof and include the safety nets from the start.

[Samantha]

5. Do you want to know when I first learned the paperless society was coming?

Forty-one years ago, in 1970.

[progressoid]

6. Yep - I have three computers in my office

and I'm still drowning in paperwork.

[fatbuckel]

11. I`m still receiving faxes.

[Canuckistanian]

7. K&R

And printed for later reading...

[crikkett]

8. ever seen someone try to 'jot a note' with a swipe keyboard?

I rest my case.

Paper is here to stay...

[Pigheaded]

9. Since we went to an electronic medical record

We are using over 2 times the amount of paper as we were 2 years ago.

Sucks to be in medicine.

Pigheaded

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Then you're using a poor EHR...

A good EHR, when used correctly, will reduce paper output to zero because everything will be contained in the system. Referrals and records will soon be able to be sent thru an HIE or RHIO (new ones are popping up every day). Hell, even the now-mandated Clinical Visit Summary (by CMS's Meaningful Use standard) can be sent to the patients' account where they can access it via Patient Portal.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. You're in medicine? Oh boy. Welcome to DU btw. n't