Nokia started research on flexible cell phone
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.
Source: Washington Post
looks really interesting, prolly won’t debut til around 2020
hmm …. interesting
“morph will help us in everyday life”
yes! like i sit down at a cafe all day playing with my phone
Sounds like an interesting concept, very difficult to create I would assume. Probably won’t see it for about 20 years though.. but you never know eh?
Very interesting, but can it vibrate? No! My 3330 still pwns
in the 1950s they were convinced every home would have a robot butler by the 1970s, sometimes these scientists get carried away with hypethetical ideas.
LOL. and the cost on something like this would be..?
Of course they won’t release something like this if it’s not in market price range. But I guess the cost for developing it is pretty high..
I can’t wait to see what technology brings us in like 50 years. Very exciting.
I used to be in the telecoms business and remember seeing pictures of a Nokia prototype about 2 years ago.
About $20,000,000..
but you would be the only one on your block with such a device.
I think there are right about such a thing being possible in the future but it’s going to take the point where the various technologies shown are almost free before cell phone companies would start to integrate them into phones. Note that most cell phones (even the iphone) cost very little to produce. Just that olfactory sensor is going to take decades to get to the point it’s cheap enough that someone might think of using it the way they demonstrate. Then look at the way they reshape the device. Anyone think that’s going to be reliable any time soon? I’m just hopeful they get the flexible screens (like Sony has demonstrated) to be reliable when bent like that in ten years, let alone make it into something you might wear.
very interesting indeed, but i guess I’ll be dead until this “thing” will be done.
i hope not because i really want to see some futuristic things.
impressive
Biotech, eh?
Acts like human organism’s if you think about it..
Keep that thing in the sun long enough and you’ll prolly see eyes and a nose pop outta no where and say “Feed Me!”
lol!
This is how the terminator starts.
FEAR THE MACHINE.
JOHNNY FIVE IS ALIVE!
and whatnot
Hmmm.
I think Nokia should concentrate on ironing out the bugs in the N95 firmware instead of this nonsense.
I can see people loosing that little clip button thing.
Wheres the lightsaber and hoverboards?
This looks like the most pointless and stupid thing ever.
People just want something to call and text on….and maybe an MP3 player built in as well
This is a joke.
I want those hoverboards
@10 I thought in economy, the main thing is, how special your goods is. I am thinking, if I own just half the technologies shown, I would definitely integrate them not just into mobile phone technology, but everything - other companies would gladly pay for it. And finally if you would own such a thing and the developing price would be 20 000 000 bucks, i am quite sure, that you would sell all of them the same day you entered the market ;]
Getting ahead of themselves…. FIRST, they need to release the black and white version, thats 14 inches thick. This will forever be known as Generation 1. after this, they introduce a version thats a mere 15 inches thick, but has 2 color lcd screen. after that comes the second generation, where its 11 inches thick, but has twice the hard drive size, at only triple the price. Eventually, after years and years of advanced research, we are down to a 7 inch version, and everyone with previous versions wonders what the hell they bought the “old” one for… Then comes the REAL technological advancements when the whole product is scrapped because Microsoft has seen their great new technology, and copied it directly, naming the NEW version something slightly different, possibly starting with the letter Z.
I wonder what poofy wallpapers they will have when it’s in the armband mode!
High Quality QuickTime Vid:
http://nds3.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/About_Nokia/Research/Demos/Morph/video/morph_concept_small.mov
High Res Photo’s:
http://www.nokia.com/A4630650?category=rd
Nokia’s Morph Homepage:
http://www.nokia.com/A4852062
Impressive video…
BUT:
NOKIA 3310 FTW!!!!
So a bunch of researchers are pushing for more funding by putting together a flashy demo for something that couldn’t possibly come out for decades… what is interesting about this again?
can this beat 1100?
Bit of shrewd promotion by Nokia.
definitley better than Halo 3
She didnt payed for the coffee, i want one of those
ohh now that we have that video demonstration and those other pretty pictures it should be really easy to make it lolz
nanotechnology my a** hehe
btw. Nokia 6300 is still way better than this
NOKIA sucks big time
Actually, if none of you havent got it yet, this is more closer to be real than you think. Even if it is at concept level, the technology is here and can be implemented many ways, some of them described in the video above.
cool! but i think they have to develop a celfon which also can be used as CONDOM, lol
Remember Jeff Goldblum. Each technology where there’s a fly is a bad bad idea.
BTW : awesome
Grats on ripping ideas from iPhone (except the totally useless bending feature..)
Amazing video. I find this quite far-fetched, but heck, who knows? If you told everyone back in the 70’s about our day to day lives they’d probably just laugh at you. Or what if you go even further back? The trend has been the same the last century, technology has been improving really fast, and now it’s almost like we’re in hyperdrive. I sure love the time we live in!
that’s a tame interpretation of concepts that modern science fiction authors are playing with. funny to see this coming to the mainstream.
advanced nano tech is good for many small wonders.
needs time, though… :-/
AT LEAST 50 yrs away
nokia hasnt even created a touch screen device yet !!
thier touch S60 will be announced in the second half of 2008 and wont be released late 2008
there’s alot of concepts these days but nothing is really close to reality
I’ll guess about 15 years.
But it’s nice to see some concept art. I wouldn’t mind paying 1000$
Oh and the only “unrealitistic” thing about it, is the spidersilk for folding… that type of material is hard to copy.
@ 37
Where have your eyes been? Nokia released first touch screen PHONE in year 2004, the nokia 7710 device. Based on it, the widely known Maemo internet tablets have been released (the latest one n810), which also include touch screen capability.
I was touched by future… Impressive!
Exist but it have some bugs,he eat people from time to time
Looks like something our of some weird futuristic movie. I wonder how durable it’d be?
Interesting, but light years from now…
LQL W00T TEH FAQUE¿
It took this long to reverse from or should I say to create from … very Interesting.
This is amazing! I remember seeing the iPhone commercials and said to myself, “the day that product is for sale you will get one”, what a reality that was. I paid a line holder to stand for 13 hours for me and I bought 4 iPhones. I then found out how bad they suck unless you mod the iPhone
No matter the cost, no matter the price when the Morph is available I will pay a line holder and get one all on American Express’ Tab.
I think I still stick with my Blackberry 8320 Curve.
this is not a release. nokia is lame and a jobkilling slaverymachine.
toshiba planned HDDVD. all this is worthless corporate advertising.
does that phone have speaker..
That lock function is the same as in the iPhone (the sliding finger thing)
yes yes everything’s magical.
…maybe in a decade or so.
Now does anybody have any info about the music theme.
can it vibrate while it’s wrapped around my wrist?
love the porno soundtrack
yeah i’ll say 10 years
lol ppl got over your out dated nokia’s
nokia Morph ftw!!
What song is this from? Sound alot like Ragnarok OST
This made me feel like I was reading the last chapters of William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ again. I feel as if the future is now. I feel safe knowing that this technology is coming and it may improve our lives. Pretty cool stuff. I love it!
first of all number 37 nokia has created a touch screen device its the nokia N87, avaiable in japan and nokia shouldn’t be concentrating on this phone if their current phones are sh!t. Their batteries are crap they don’t last very long even though they are li-on or whatever, thier batteries explode here in england and i mean literally explode BOOM!! and i think that phone is highly exaggerated and everyone is getting eager to see that phone when they most likely be dead before its made
they will kill apple sony nextel with that phone
Here’s what not’s going to happen:
It won’t be smelling things, it won’t be charging from solar power (in fact, I hardly see any space in it for a battery, so expect a 5-minute battery life). It won’t be morphing into different colors or taking on skins. Really, the smallest creatures on earth that do it are larger than this ‘phone’… that’s if we manage to do bionanotechnology, which is another 200 years away.
What you can assume will happen: Flexible phone, that could fold onto your wrist with a lock mode. Expect it to be VERY FRAGILE. You put your wrist on a table and it will break (the phone, not your wrist). You can also expect touch-sense buttons, but those won’t work in warm weathers, as they will be sensing heat, not pressure.
Also, expect this thing to be 99% out of range, that’s a promise until the put a cell phone station between EVERY BLOCK. Oh, and there’s no way this thing will have a camera, or have enough energy to vibrate or be loud enough so you could hear unless you shove the whole thing into your ear.
!KNOW THE LIMITS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY!
If it can vibrate, i know what i would wrap it around^^
#62
you ftw!!!
Check this out http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/2057/2057.html
Its just like this. In it are prototypes already being produced.
Looks every futuristic
As a Scientist, I am particularly enthusiastic on the applications of this technology to Pornography.
This will be the perfect phone to use in my hovercar!
Yeah, right…
The world covered in 6 inches of grey sludge just so people can have a watch/phone..
They can’t even get a 360 to work reliably, never mind creating atom sized machinery… we’re just not mature enough as a species for stuff like this.. we’re all still so docile that they commit some of the most incompetent election fraud against us, sell off our inalienable rights to freedom and privacy to the highest bidder and we all do nothing…
Let’s have a firm demarkation of societal power before we start messing with world destroying dangers like this.
Christ, you people are so dumb.
you guys are missing the point here, this is the concept of a final application, it’s not like one day it doesn’t exist and the next day it’s shipping to your home or something, pieces of technology on that phone will start showing up one at a time in our phones, and hopefully someday we will get close to that phone…
obviously don’t expect to be exactly like that, but don’t expect to be worse either, history as told us their will obviously have foolish people saying things wont evolve much more or things are going to evolve astronomically, but the truth is, they always evolve we just don’t know how much
who knows, maybe tomorrow someones discovers a way for the batteries to have a huge life, or maybe that will only happen in 2000 years… or never…
I placed an order for four already.
shear awsomeness….how much will it be i wonder 1g 2g?
I’ve seen too many of these kinds of videos ever since I could remember…scientists promising all these new technology
Decades ago people predicted fly cars and all these other space things
No one who saw this video probably will ever get to see one made
It sure looks amazing but I think that Nokia should keep their feet on the ground and focus on developing more basic models that won’t cost 900$.
omg thats just another iphone ripoff!! theyre stealing steve jobs’ ideas!!!
@ 61
You’re an idiot. Flexible photovoltaics and flexible OLED displays already exist.
@61
It sounds like you know nothing at all about nanotech, its theories, and possibilites or its limits. Nanotech has been around for over 2 decades in theory and has been implimented for the last last decade. When you start seeing things like this hit the “mainstream” then that usually means that it has already been under developement for at least 5+ years.
Secondly the material will be strong as hell, and the battery life will be unbelieveable, go google, “carbon nanotubes” and “nanobatteries”
“morph will help us in our everyday life”
What sick SOB thought this one up? You will be owned by your company. welcome to the umbrella corporation.
do you really think this tech will be put to use for the greater good or to make everyones life 10x miserable?
it doesn’t even matter. it will happen and we cannot stop it. only the governator can stop skynet.
Yes for 6% financing u can get yours for a low $2000 down and $250 a month for 48 months……. With approved credit ……….LMAO……..
But it is a nice concept
And like I said when I’ve spread that video on my social network:
I DOUBT THAT! I guess i won’t live that much to see those things happen.
Foremost, this is corporate advertising.
This does not exist, and neither will it exist, for at least two decades.
Tech toys for small boys.
Reposting #61 as it deserves to be reposted:
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Wibble
February 26th, 2008 | 23:08
Yeah, right…
The world covered in 6 inches of grey sludge just so people can have a watch/phone..
They can’t even get a 360 to work reliably, never mind creating atom sized machinery… we’re just not mature enough as a species for stuff like this.. we’re all still so docile that they commit some of the most incompetent election fraud against us, sell off our inalienable rights to freedom and privacy to the highest bidder and we all do nothing…
Let’s have a firm demarkation of societal power before we start messing with world destroying dangers like this.
Christ, you people are so dumb.
It’s amazing how negative people can be. Ever had unique thought in your head and wanted to pursue it?
It’s called art. Get used to the fact that people are here to learn and grow. Take a deep breath………relax and enjoy the ride.
…and you, Negative thinking, should be allowed nothing more complicated than lego.
LOOK at the world around you… and you want to give them nanotech to play with?
As for your “art” comment, well up until now, ‘art’ hasn’t had the ability to deconstruct the planet, molecule by molecule.
“Relax and enjoy the ride”???????…. I can’t whilst oblivious idiots such as yourself keep p1ssing in my drinking water…
any one know the name of the music track?
why be so negative about this, it didn’t take long for mobile phones to come this far so why not another 10 years and everyone will have these. we would have all forgotten about what was the normal mobile like how mobiles use to be the size of bricks and didn’t even have sms, camera and even internet photo etc etc.
Im looking forward to whats up next around the corner so why would i want to dwell on the past.
Wow! Wibble, you must be one scared individual.
You can’t stop the human experience to expand and grow.
Stop worrying and learn to love the machine. You know they’re coming to get you.
Think this will fit in your arsehole? Oh and feel the good vibrations.
to the guys having nightmares of grey goo: we’re not talking self-replicating nano bots here. we’re not even talking autonomous nano tech. get your facts straight you scare mongers. the nano technology market is growing at a dizzying rate, the next 10-20 years will bring amazing breakthroughs. fasten your seatbelts.
Unrestricted technological growth for such a fundimentally unstable and stupid species is disasterous full stop, there is no such thing as a reponsible corporate entity… as for being scared..all I do is base my opinions on the past conduct of these people, they never learn so it’s not hard to see where we’re headed.
@ user.. not self replicating?… when everything bolis down to money that’s the VERY first technology that will be exploited to reduce manufacturing cost.
its possible ive seen those paper battery cells that fold and bend just like the phone so why not
Seeing as they can’t even get it out of “animation” stage of production, I’m not keeping my hopes up.
wibble.. all i can say is wow… lets come out of the stone age already…
so many of you don’t understand the point of R&D… its not the fact that they’re making a cool phone. its the breakthroughs in science and technology that is the real asset. nanotechnology has endless possibilities from healthcare to energy production. get a grip and open a book or get lost in a wikipedia hole for half a day reaseraching something before you spout doomsday.
development of high performance cars for racing seems pretty pointless as well until you realize that it affects commercial vehicles way down the line.
the laser had no practical purpose when it was invented… but without it none of us would have our lovely fiber optics where we all hop on our high speed and reap the fruits of hollywood…
think outside the box is all i’m saying… and open a book and get educated.
Maybe instead of spending all this money on new technology Nokia should concentrate on getting this N95 I’ve got to work properly…its quite simply the worst phone I have ever owned!
IT IS PERFECT IDIA 2 BE DEVELOPED IN CEELL WORLD BECAUSE IT WILL BE WONDER FULL FOR USER S FOR SOME THING NEW I ALSO THINK THE SAME THING IN MY MIND TO MAKE BUT NOKIA HAD THINK 2 SECOND FASTER THAN ME OK HE IS ALSO MY BROTHER LET IT BE…
BUT ONCE MORE IT WILL BE GREAT FOR USERS FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS ,……..