Moixa Sphere multitouch orb bends minds, credulity

Ordinarily we'd take one look at Moixa's Sphere interactive display ball around this time of year and immediately dismiss it as an April Fools joke, but something tells us not even the most dedicated would-be pranksters take the time and expense to patent their little diversions. That said, we're definitely not so sure this thing will make its planned 2010 ship date, since it's just a render right now, but if it does, we'll be first in line -- a folding multitouch display with an always-on net connection and gyroscopic interface elements that can also be used folded flat sounds pretty amazing to us. We want to believe.

Read - Sphere site
Read - Sphere patent

[Via Pocket-lint]

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:13PM]

i love balls

[Paul Chapel Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:30PM]

that was gay.

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:38PM]

I was referring to the spherical shape, can't you tell?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:45PM]

seeing as you have a mac as your avatar.. I am not surprised...

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:48PM]

I have windows and linux too by the way. Not to start up any OS wars. But just my thought: Why have only Mac, and why have only Windows, when you can get both and get the benefits all have to offer?

And I really need to change my avatar.

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:58PM]

More like this, amirite (Should be an avatar of my two guinea pigs)?

[Mushrooshi Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:12PM]

Now (Waiting for pic update...)?

[Levi Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:17PM]

I came in after the pic update... I was like... that's a Mac avatar?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:49PM]

yea im a mac user too..but your still gay

[nikster Posted Apr 1st 2009 4:02AM]

It's OK to be gay.

[OneLove Posted Apr 1st 2009 12:02PM]

control the world with your balls

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:15PM]

i have some balls you might

[idealEric Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:11PM]

really

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:16PM]

love more

[idealEric Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:11PM]

classy.

[haX0r Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:25PM]

Lick my Spheres.

[Joseph9307 Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:30PM]

I saw the picture and I was like,

WTF

343 Guilty Sparks?!?!

[the counterfeit comedian Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:35PM]

i hope it is real. next stop then is that computer paper dealie from red planet with val kilmer and fatty sizemore

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:38PM]

Is that an apple in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[BoomHeadshot Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:51PM]

Cool way to brows Google Earth.

[chaboud Posted Apr 1st 2009 12:13AM]

Until you zoom in...

[SirSquirrels Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:53PM]

I don't understand what the point of using it to browse Google Earth in that form would be. If you zoomed in the design would completely fail in that functionality. I smell a hoax.

[KR Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:36PM]

Good to see that someone else noticed this......

honestly, this is only good as a concept, nothing more.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:53PM]

The zoom feature could expand the zoomed selection into a box or window while maintaining the globe on the rest of the device. Or, more in accordance with the presented drawings, it could use one of the six sides of the internal display-cube as the zoomed portion.

[Decoy Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:02PM]

Microsoft Sphere... Nano?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 10:26PM]

My first thought was April Fools, but the moxia.com domain name has been registered since the end of April 2000...seems like a long time coming.

[Levi Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:19PM]

I don't know why... but I think I want one...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 12:14AM]

me tooo

[Randomness Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:43PM]

"Sphere is under development for release [...] in 2010 and is linked to the commercial availability of flexible screen materials."

It sounds like someone needs to invent the screen that this thing will use first. They invented the specific way it folds and what it 'can' do, but the actual screen material still needs to be sourced from some other company that will invent and sell an appropriate flexible screen in 2010.

[Nightwheel Posted Apr 1st 2009 12:36AM]

I have a feeling this is a April Fools joke.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 2:48AM]

And... since it's multitouch, how the hell do you use it if the whole thing is a screen?

[superhobo Posted Apr 1st 2009 5:01AM]

Detects fingers maybe?

It's only a concept anyway.

[superhobo Posted Apr 1st 2009 5:00AM]

It's a Remembrall.

[Grendel MTL Posted Apr 1st 2009 11:17AM]

Cool! it almost looks like a PDA inside a rubix puzzle!
When can I get one?!