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Nokia Unveils Shape Changing Nano-phone Concept
An anonymous reader writes "Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge, has gone on display as part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The concept demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform the gadget into radically different shapes. Nokia said that elements of Morph might be integrated into handheld devices within seven years, though initially only at the high end."
Better pictures can be found here.
What we see on the photos is at best a mockup made out of plexiglas and at most likely a render.
Lets see, a completly transparent screen. Because as well know nanotech makes things transparent. Apparently in a mere seven years we will have a material that looks a nice uniform light transparant green but can be used as pixels, wires, battery, antenna, electronics, it can be be reshaped at will without deforming at random.
In seven years?
Come on, this isn't a concept, it is just wishfull thinking with absolutly no bases in reality.
If you can shape a screen, how do you stop it from deforming when you don't want it to? Do you enjoy reading leaflets outside where the wind flaps them about?
I am just getting to old for this non-sense. I don't mind concept products where designers and engineers wonder "what if". But please at least use tech that MIGHT BE. After all if we are randomly speculating I can come up with far more intresting stuff. How about a mobile phone that sits on your eye like a contact lense and is controlled by thought? In seven years? I can even show you how one might look, someone got a place to host a picture of a contact lense?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The video is more enlightening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs