Imagine tapping out text messages on a device the size of an index card and as flat as a piece of paper, then folding it in thirds to hold it to your ear and make a phone call. Refold it in a slightly different shape and wrap it around your wrist, where it becomes a watch and also communicates with an ear bud that lets you talk hands free. Nokia researchers, along with researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, have created an animated video describing such a vision for mobile devices, which could come in the future through nanotechnology developments.
The animation shows practical applications for several specific types of work that the scientists are developing based on their nanotechnology research, said Tapani Ryhanen, the head of multimedia devices research at Nokia Research Center. The concept video was created at the prodding of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which opened an exhibit February 24 called”Design and the Elastic Mind,”he said. Currently, the researchers have developed “bits and pieces” of the technologies envisioned in the concept “but we are not yet at the level that we could integrate those things together into a device that we’re showing in this animation,” Ryhanen said. Some features of the device could start appearing in commercial products as soon as seven years from now, Nokia said.
They must be using Sony's flexible OLED displays. Or they are developing their own.
Either way.
<3 Nokia.
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We are one step closer to SkyNet.
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God bless nanotechnology. The possibilities this new field presents are mind-blowing.
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This is ing awesome. How cool will it be to just slip your phone/mp3 player/media device into your wallet next to your bank cards or what have you. Then again, by then we'll probably be injected with tiny nanobots that simply link up with ATM's whenever you stand in front of one; eliminating the need for bank cards altogether.
spitty
can someone try to explain to me how it could become invisible?!?1
MikeyN
this is such a cool idea! i remeber maybe two months ago i was talking about this with a co-worker, i had said the future of cell phones would almost be film-thin and could adhere to almost any surface (without adhesive), and have great viewing angles. imagine sticking your phone on the dashboard of your car, or wearing it like a wristband, peeling it of whenever you're done.
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can someone try to explain to me how it could become invisible?!?1
i'll take a stab at it, some (not so crazy after seeing this) receptors on the side you dont see display an image on the side you do see.
for example, if it was on a wooden table, the receptors would pick up that wood grain finish and display it back to you.
me@t k@tie
To be honest, I wouldn't want a super thin phone. It would be so difficult to find because you wouldn't be able to feel the weight of it in your pocket or purse. I think it would also be a lot easier to lose. That's why I will never buy an iPod shuffle. :p
