Iori Komei
02-25-2008, 08:45 PM
The Morph is a concept device designed by Nokia and the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge that explores the future of portable gadgetry when married with nanotechnology, and its creators really went wild.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9503/morphxk1.jpg
It can take various shapes such as a tablet, handset, headset and wristwatch — thanks to the morphing nano-bits composing it — and has an impressive, unheard of list of features: it's self cleaning, durable, changes the feel of its surface to your liking, and is covered with grass-like fibers that absorbs energy from the sun. The fibers also allow it to "sense" the world around it, providing you with information about your surroundings.
SOURCE:
DVICE (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/nokia_morph_pos.php)
[Be sure to watch the video in the link.]
It makes me really happy to see concepts like this, utilizing technology that most companies would never think to demonstrate so early before they are applicable.
I think another feature they should have included would be a mobile picture Internet search (http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1476), that would definitely make it even better than it is, and since it apparently has a picture/camera ability in the design already, this would'nt be to difficult to imagine.
I think the coolest thing about this is that it's possible within the next two decades.
I want one now though.
What's everyone else's opinions on it?
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9503/morphxk1.jpg
It can take various shapes such as a tablet, handset, headset and wristwatch — thanks to the morphing nano-bits composing it — and has an impressive, unheard of list of features: it's self cleaning, durable, changes the feel of its surface to your liking, and is covered with grass-like fibers that absorbs energy from the sun. The fibers also allow it to "sense" the world around it, providing you with information about your surroundings.
SOURCE:
DVICE (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/nokia_morph_pos.php)
[Be sure to watch the video in the link.]
It makes me really happy to see concepts like this, utilizing technology that most companies would never think to demonstrate so early before they are applicable.
I think another feature they should have included would be a mobile picture Internet search (http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1476), that would definitely make it even better than it is, and since it apparently has a picture/camera ability in the design already, this would'nt be to difficult to imagine.
I think the coolest thing about this is that it's possible within the next two decades.
I want one now though.
What's everyone else's opinions on it?