Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Nokia's Morph Concept

If it wasn't for the video, I probably wouldn't have been able to convey how cool Nokia's Morph Concept is. Nokia's R&D and Cambridge are trying to incorporate nano-technology in electronic devices which will help revolutionalize the way electronic devices operate in the new future. It weaves a 3-D mesh with Fibril proteins, a thin elastic structure is created which creates a highly flexible, stretchable, transparent and strong structure. What's most remarkable is that the material can adapt itself to perform it's task at hand.

It's got built in solar absorption capabilities to re-charge itself. It's surface cliams to be self-cleaning and hence repels water or dirt. To top it all it's made of bio-degradeable materials. So essentially it's got everything to give a environmentalist a mini-orgasm. Cambirdge researchers claim to have all the basic technologies in place but admit they are still no where near creating the first prototype. The rough estimate as to when this might become a reality is around 2018-2020. Tell then enjoy the video...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It'll be way to cool to have something like that.

VBR said...

Totally....Someone fast forward to 2020 plz...

Vidyashankara Iyer said...

Thats really awesome! There's lot of really exciting research in this field. I went to the ACS presentation series last year, and their nano series were on all on research like this. Its really fascinating.

I do hope that we will be able to create this stuff without using proteins though.