Nokia’s true next-gen mobile concept – Morph
So I saw this fancy new futurephone via Whitechapel the other week. I glanced at it and thought it looked cool enough, but it’s seemed like yet another concept phone.
What I didn’t realize was that the pictures shown were of the same device.
Until just now, after Bruce Sterling blogged it again and I finally stopped and watched the video (this fact has nothing to do with me getting dual monitors at work, move along):
Writing for Grinding I’m starting to develop something of a fetish for techno-concept pr0n and man does this thing tick all the boxes.
This is a real next-gen concept; not existing tech ++, but a whole new set of technologies.
For me this marks an actual point of futurity; when we’ve gone from here (ie now) to the there represented by this concept video, we’ll have reached somewhere new. And then we get to start over.
And how far away is this future? Well, according to Nokia’s press release:
Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into hand-held devices within 7 years, though initially only at the high-end.
Seven.Years. Sure, the ISS will probably still be a joke, but at least we’ll have nano-tech communicators in our pockets.
And what else can you make with self-cleaning, auto-powered nano-tech computers? A lot.
The only thing better than this that I can possibly imagine is the mythical Computronium.
@m1k3y
I can’t see part of the video, it falls on the edge.
Seven years, maybe. Could be sooner, I think.
suffice to say, with nanotech advanced enough to build such a device, the device itself might be unnecessary
@Spiraltwist – that’s weird.
Wonder if it’s broken for anyone else?
You can always click the embedded YouTube vid and watch it at youtube.com
@chris – exactly!
i think what they’re doing here (and nicely) is contextualizing advances they can see nanotech engineering in terms the modern consumer can understand.
i suspect that by the time (ie in ~7 years) this technology moves out of the lab and into the factory we’ll have a whole new set of applications for it.
and with that preview video we can start thinking of them now.
let’s throw true smart-clothing out there for starters.
@m1k3y
- I’ve decided it was that monitor. That’s what I get for not being on my own computer.
let’s throw true smart-clothing out there for starters.
Oh yes! I hate doing laundry.