More work from the Royal Collage of Art MA show The Great Exhibition 2007.

Flat Futures by Miguel Mora, again an MA Design Interactions student, is a research project with a series of prototyped outcomes focused on the uses of digital papers, the combination of print and digital technologies:

The Flat Futures project deals with this new smart/digital paper. Through printed electronics we can create processors, displays, batteries on flat and flexible surfaces like paper. Objects will wear technology instead of carrying them inside. It will become their skin.

How will this affect our lives? How will our relationship with these enhanced objects change? If any surface can display anything, where will its value be? In the physical object? Or in the information itself?

What if objects are made of paper? How are we going to interact with them? For instance, the disposable Paper Alarm Clock needs to be scrunched up in order to turn it off. It brings new ways to experience electronic products.

The image above shows potential uses of this digital paper, the Paper Alarm Clock (top, left to right) which a user scrunches up to turn off, the GPS Document which stores its own location and the Memory Envelope which remembers where its been. The last two of these seem very spime like.