Nokia 888 Phone and Morph Concepts

The Nokia 888 was a bracelet-like fantasy phone concept designed by Tamer Nakisci. It won the Benelux design contest in 2005 though it wasn’t actually endorsed by Nokia themselves.

http://www.nokia888.com/

I just think it looks really cool. The technology is currently unfeasible but soon will be due to developments in nanotechnology. The latest concept for a mobile device that is endorsed by Nokia takes the nanotech elements even further. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices. Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting and self cleaning. It is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables it to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand. Featured in the MoMA online exhibition "Design and the Elastic Mind" it has been a collaboration project of Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center. Nokia have said that elements of Morph might be integrated into handheld devices within seven years, though initially only at the high end.

View the Morph promo:

Stock exchange for 'grid' computing?

Computer scientists and economists in Spain, the UK, Italy and Germany have developed a successful decentralized, free-market approach to grid computing.

Called CATNETS, it showed that a free-market network can be much bigger than a centrally administered one without becoming bogged down by administrative overheads.

http://physorg.com/news123167512.html

New Electronics Promise Wireless at Warp Speed

Company uses nanoscale metals to build faster radios to wirelessly process video and other massive data files. Wireless networking technology will one day deliver high-definition video content and other large data files via the airwaves far faster than that information can be now be delivered over wired systems.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=metal-insulator-electronics-wireless

Bionic Eyes

uwnews.org

http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweeka...

Movie characters from The Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view or create virtual crosshairs. Now, UW engineers have built similar capacities into a contact lens.

Bionic eyes!

Get rid of your computer screen and put a contact lens in your eye instead and immerse yourself totally in cyberspace. The future is here!