How’s this for brilliance…

A graduating RCA design student, Miquel Mora masterminded a project he called Flat Futures. It’s an exploration into digital paper and all its endless possibilities (I’m personally thinking about Tony the Tiger roaring down at me from the Frosty cereal box as I walk through the supermarket aisle!)

Printed electronics allow us to create processors, displays and batteries on flat and flexible surfaces like paper. Using this technology, Mora made an alarm clock constructed from a flat sheet of paper.

His second stroke of brilliance came in the form of Smart Tapes - a range of electronic components, including a computer processor and speaker, printed on adhesive tape. Now you can email or Google by just sticking a piece of tape on your desk/wall/car window! Anytime. Anywhere.

Another brilliant application is the Memory Envelope. It remembers its own GPS position and shows it on the map on its cover, so you can track the envelope’s journey.