Nokia ‘Morph’ Phone Concept February 28, 2008

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Nokia is looking to nanotechnology to make our future dream phones a reality and has wheeled out its Morph concept device to tease us.

The Morph – nothing to do with our childhood plasticine friend – features in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition in New York and is the brainchild of boffins at Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre in the UK.

Flexibility is at the heart of the new device using materials and components that are stretchable, transparent and very strong. Fibril proteins would be woven into a 3-D mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures – like spider silk – allowing the device to morph into a wide range of shapes. Fold it up and it looks like a phone or open it our into a reading tablet with keypad. The device would also use nanotechnology to create self-cleaning surfaces on mobile devices while nanostructures like “Nanoflowers” naturally repel water, dirt, and even fingerprints.

For the truly green ,something called Nanograss structures could be used as the device surface to harvest solar power. The animated video is cute but this is a concept after all, and we may all be in wheelchairs before any of this happens. Jump for a photo of Morph close-up.-Martin Lynch

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