Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 16, 2009 @05:08AM from the other-products-to-flex-on-the-way dept.

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.

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Drop-resistence? by MrEricSir · 2009-04-16 05:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

Would a "floppy phone" be more resistant to drops? Clumsy minds want to know.

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Now my battery won't die... by revjtanton · 2009-04-16 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny

With the kinetic energy powering the device having my phone die during lengthy phone sex calls is a thing of the past! Yaaaay!