Nokia Morph Concept

    Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.

Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art "Design and The Elastic Mind" exhibition, the Morph Concept device is s bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nano science Center (United Kingdom)- nano scale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.

Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:

•  Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
•  Devices become self cleaning and self -preserving
•  Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
•  Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller,longer lasting and faster to charge
•  Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices

In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics shown in the Morph Concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced. All of these new capabilities will unleash new applications and services that will allow us to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways

Elements of Morph might be available to integrate handheld devices within 7 years, though initially only at the High-end. However, nanotechnology may one day lead to low cost manufacturing solutions, and offers the possibility of integrating complex functionality at a lower price.