Why is Nokia always trying to outdo everyone with its fancy-schmancy concepts and designs? Why can't they just get in line and keep it simple? We may never know the answer to those questions, but what we do know is that the company is presenting a new concept device called the Morph that would be right at home... in the year 3000. The unit is included in the MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition catalog, and boasts the ability to stretch and flex to almost any shape a user could think of. The nanotechnology-based device would deliver transparent electronics, self-cleaning surfaces, and the malleability to transform into any number of configurations. Of course, the actual technology required to put this together is years or even decades away, though Nokia expects to see some of these innovations making their way into high-end products within seven years. See the device doing its thing in some photos after the break.
Update: Tipster Pdexter pointed us to a video of the Morph in "action" -- check it out after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted February 25th 2008 9:58AM
anybody remember 888 ?
remember how long it's been since it's common to have a PC? perhaps some 15 years. And look how far we've come. Everyone has a PC, an MP3 Player that does way more than play music, A digital camera and a mobile phone that does way more than make phonecalls. All this in some 15 years!
who of you still says this is technology of the year 3000? 992 years from now?
I think Nokia doesn't go that wrong by saying that the first parts of this technology can be realized in the next seven years. In like 20 years (longer than we all have computers in our houses) this whole thing is reality! Perhaps fashion has changed then so it'll look somehow different.
so long... Greetz sakana atama
hey! they stole the apple "slide to unlock" thing!!
burn it!!!!
This is impressive, however
im pundering with e-ink/paper technology you could probably achieve something "close" to this, already.
and i stress "close to" not everything.
example
having a 3 part e-paper display which can be folded out to produce a full display and then folded in to produce the smaller handheld as soon in the video
off course the form factor and mobile calling abilities would "currently" reduce form factor.
and create bulk.
though other aspects im sure are way way off, if not impossible.
Another thing is, if you have nano tech being able to created this stuff, why wouldnt it be used to just kill handsets all together and go full
ghost in the shell telecom, via brain to brain
communications. i.e.(technological telephany) which we all know is what cellphone technology will eventually end up as.
does no one else not notice that in the year 3000, everything is so green(economicly speaking) that they're covering their damn buildings with green, as well as having their singular electronic device purely green. i'd much rather have a FULL COLOR DISPLAY that dosnt leave my desk, instead of a green one that i can take with me everywhere.
Maybe she had the "green" theme enabled =/
iI guess Apple would do it better :D
I guess Apple would do it better :D
Nokia Aeon, where are you!
http://images.google.ca/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enCA260CA260&q=Nokia+Aeon&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
um, no.
I hope to be alive to see these happen one day. I love it.
I also love how long it takes the device to process the "wallpaper" from the bag photo. Yes, folks, even in the future, we will still have load times.
"Why can't they just get in line and keep it simple?
Dude, that design is the very *essence* of simplicity. It's a blank page, committed to nothing, not even a form factor.
I live for shit like this. Bravo to Cambridge and Nokia for giving us a glimpse of the future, as seen from 2008. I hope I'm around in 30 years to look back on this and see how naive our predictions were (as they always are). By the time we can have devices that can transform into any shape or color, the notion of using a 'screen' may seem quaint, replaced by a nanotechnology device that projects images directly onto the retina, or something we can't even imagine today.
The year 3000 and we still have to use our HANDS? COME ON, THAT REQUIRES BODY MOVEMENT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Vhzn4YcOk
Glad to see Nokia will have ditched S60 by the year 3000
I'd be spillin honey on that all day long...
~~~~Dream Waves~~~~
Back in my day we had to get cases and windex you little farts you don't know how good you have it. Now, get out of here grandpa's going to nano some porn old school style.
~~~~~Dream Waves~~~~~
Hey i think that chick was prego in the eggo her nano turned pink.
I really want the Haptics feature, NOW. Touchscreens that have 3D bevels based on contexts... That's like combining buttons with touchscreen. THIS WOULD BE SO AWESOME!!!
i guess all you guys that don't like the technology to evolve are sons of b... hipocratic asses! Without nokias developments we would end up with some shit-looking brick sized phones 'n shit, so don't pull this crap "ohmy god it's evil thing, god would never want this to happened to be" - just makes me sick
Yeah, the Morph is way out there, but this kind of visioning really says something about how we get to this point in the future. We may never actually see a morph in real life, but over time aspects of the morph will gradually make it into our handsets. Read more about it on our futurists' blog, ChangeWaves: http://changewaves.socialtechnologies.com
Personally I just want to buy it.