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Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It
Mike writes "Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone with a flexible OLED display that can be folded up like a wallet. Dubbed the EOS phone, the display unfolds to reveal a wide screen, and shape memory allows the phone's keys to pop up when in use and blend in with the surface during downtime. Best of all, the phone's soft, semi-rigid polymer skin is embedded with an array of tiny piezoelectric generators — the more you use the phone, the more it charges!" So far, it's just a design idea — but a cool one.
"...semi-rigid polymer skin is embedded with an array of tiny piezoelectric generators"
Can you imagine condoms made of this stuff? The porn industry alone could power half of California. Energy crisis solved.
Cue Trojan, Inc. patent in 3..2...1
Would a "floppy phone" be more resistant to drops? Clumsy minds want to know.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
...but if it can't withstand being in my back pocket with my fat arse sitting on it repeatedly, then what's the point.
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
"Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone with a flexible OLED display that can be folded up like a wallet."
Uh, no.
They unveiled a concept.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
But iphone does not do that. So, this is a complete useless technology. If Apple has not thought about it, it's not worth the money.
Nothing beats iphone.
Can we move on now, please?
With the kinetic energy powering the device having my phone die during lengthy phone sex calls is a thing of the past! Yaaaay!
I'm holding out for devices that can be charged by the heat of being in my pocket. I have a few candy bars that have found out just how hot it can be in there...
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
Kyocera make shit phones, period.... This will be just as shit as the rest of their lineup. I have been repairing Cellphones for 4 years now and EVERY Kyocera phone I see is utter garbage.. The OS they use is crap. The Signal/RF capabilities of the phones is crap. The issues they produce are equally baffling. Internal memory gets corrupted and you cant even set a normal ring tone shit like that.
When a REAL cellphone manufacturer starts to make one I'll be interested, as it stands if it's made by Kyocera I wouldnt even use it to wipe a cows ass.