Paper-thin Phone Could Replace Letter

"Soon you could be keeping your mobile phone in your purse or wallet alongside any banknotes you are carrying.

Designer Stephen Forshaw has developed a wafer-thin phone stuck on to paper that can be used to make one call.

Mr Forshaw speculated that the phone could become a novel alternative to greetings cards.

The design has already won first prize in a competition sponsored by Sony.

Dubbed the PS Call Me, the device squashes all the electronics for a phone into a flat computer chip that is thin enough to stick on a piece of paper and post, just like a letter....

As well as being used to send greetings or congratulations, the phone could also be used to check that a parcel has been delivered or to ensure that children or other at-risk groups can make emergency calls.

The PS Call Me is not the first disposable phone to be invented.

American inventor Randice-Lisa Altschul has developed a cardboard throw-away phone that works until its battery runs out." [BBC Sci/Tech]

I'm not sure how I missed this one last month, but it's a natural outgrowth of the Phone-card Phone. These cardboard, palm-sized phones were supposed to go on sale last fall at places like 7-Eleven and Wal-Mart, but I have yet to see it anywhere. Anybody seen one out in the wild? I want one to show at my presentations.

Terapin Mine Review [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

This is the device that I had reccomended to Dave a short time ago. A copy of the review is available here.