Så händer det igen, verkligheten överträffar dikten. Den här gången handlar det om morgondagens sätt att kommunicera – kanske det som ersätter dagens mobiltelefoner och handhållna minidatorer.

Under fjolåret avslutades ett av de framtidsprojekt som rullat i tidningsbranschen med drifvkraft hos institutionen för Media IT vid högskolan i Halmstad. Det handlar om projektet Ubimedia som syftade till att ta fram en prototyp av en framtida kommunikationstjänst och device. Något som bakar ihop alla typer av digitala tjänster vi kan tänkas behöva eller roas av.

Drygt ett par års projektarbete med tio tidningar (däribland ST så klart) och Tidningsutgivarna inblandade resulterade i tre visionära filmer. Filmer med ett digital armband med sömlös kommunikation med digitala väggar och skärmar hemma och överallt i samhället och i olika typer av allmänna kommunikationer.

När jag nu sitter och tittar igenom rapporten från Tidningsutgivarna framtidsspanare från studietrippen i Japan kan jag inte annat än le igenkännande. Det vi la ner många mantimmar på att spåna fram, det är redan verklighet hos företaget DoCoMo. Visserligen inte ute på marknaden än, men ändock presenterat i deras framtidsrum. Så här beskriver Max af Klercker siott möte med framtiden:

DoCoMo’s framtidsrum, är du redo? Till synes var det bara ett ganska stilrent rum med en stor soffa och ett hemmabiosystem, men skenet bedrar, som alltid. Ett digitalt armband välkomnar ägaren när denne stiger in genom dörren och huvuddatorn som är kopplad till skärmen meddelar vilka hushållssysslor den skött medan du var ute (mata hunden, beställt mat, damsugit mm…).

Läs Max af Klerckers rapport här.

Det var just det där med digitalt armband, kopplat till ett sofistikerat system med olika bildskärmar. Exakt samma koncept som i Ubimediaprojektet.

De tre filmerna som producerades i projektet hade samlingsnamnet Anytime – Anywhere. Vilket syftar på projektnamnet Ubimedia (från ubiquitous – allestädes närvarande). Filmerna kan du se var och en här:

Albin, Diana eller Maria.

Det lustiga är att fler visionärer varit inne på samma spår. Samtidigt som vi hade premiär på Ubimediafilmerna, vid SNDS seminarium i Köpenhamn 2008, så presenterade Nokia ett liknade koncept på sin webb. Ett koncept kallat Nokia Morph.

Nokia Morph Concept

En film som beskriver Nokias koncept finns naturligtvis på YouTube:
Lång version.
Kort version.

Spännande att se om Nokia eller DoCoMo gör verklighet av sitt koncept, eller om någon annan hinner före.

PS.
Filmloggan “Anytime – Anywhere” är designad av Jonas Sundling.

Well while I was surfing the net, I came up with Nokia’s R&D Project on Nanotechnology. The aim is to create a cell phone which is an outcome of the fruits of nanotechnology. Well the pictures speak for themselves.

Normal Mode

This is the cellphone working in the normal mode, however there are two other modes, to which the phone can be “twisted“.

For those who are interested, please check out this video……

Nokia’s new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user’s needs, a far cry from today’s solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech cleverness means it would even clean itself. Developed in cooperation with Cambridge University, this glimpse of a distant future is now on display at the MoMA in New York. Jump for video and yadda-yadda press release.

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph – a nanotechnology concept device
New York, US and Espoo, Finland — Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) – was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA’s official website.

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.

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, commented: “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The techniques we are developing might one day mean new possibilities in terms of the design and function of mobile devices. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.”

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration added “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.”

The partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge was announced in March, 2007 – an agreement to work together on an extensive and long term programme of joint research projects. NRC has established a research facility at the University’s West Cambridge site and collaborates with several departments – initially the Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department – on projects that, to begin with, are centered on nanotechnology.

Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into 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 low price.

Snubblade över ett klipp på Nokias nya framtidstelefon som planeras för fullt.
“Nokia Morph” – Och min första reaktion är alltså… Oaaaah.
Jag vill ha, jag vill ha, jag vill ha. Även om den i videon verkar vara mer anpassad till kvinnor och vara en aning småfjollig så är möjligheterna otroliga. Några exempel är att den är “formbar”. Dvs, du kan ha den runt handleden, du kan vika ut den till ett fullt tangentbord, du kan ha den som en vanlig telefon, du kan vika den till en papperssvala och låta den sväva runt på stan brevid dig… Okej, kanske inte så överdrivet. – Men häftig är den.

Att den annars stöter bort vätskor och smuts, laddas via solenergi och är genomskinlig är andra egenskaper som får ens könsorgan att slå en extra volt. – Undrar vad priset kommer att ligga på? Undrar vart den kommer att säljas? Undrar när? Undrar om den gamla nokiadängan “Hurdy-Gurdy” till ringsignal kommer att göra comeback?
Well, en sak är säker – Mobilframtiden är i sikte.

Alors que les autres blogs font tous l’apologie des smartphones, je ne tomberai pas dans ce piège. Merde, j’avoue, c’est surtout parce que je n’ai malheureusement ni Iphone ni Blackberry Storm. A défaut, je sais à quoi ressembleront les téléphones portables dans quelques années =p

Ca sera un bon vieux Nokia 3210 aussi souple que ton chewing-gum hollywood… au point de se transformer en bracelet à enrouler autour du poignet.

En effet, le numéro un de la téléphonie mondiale, Nokia, vient de dévoiler      « Morph », un concept futuriste de nanotechnologies appliquées au mobile, développé en association avec l’université de Cambridge.

Pour voir une mise en scène vidéo de la bête : c’est ici

Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself

Nokia’s new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user’s needs, a far cry from today’s solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech cleverness means it would even clean itself. Developed in cooperation with Cambridge University, this glimpse of a distant future is now on display at the MoMA in New York. Jump for video and yadda-yadda press release.

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph – a nanotechnology concept deviceNew York, US and Espoo, Finland — Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) – was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA’s official website.

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.

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, commented: “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The techniques we are developing might one day mean new possibilities in terms of the design and function of mobile devices. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.”

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration added “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.”

The partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge was announced in March, 2007 – an agreement to work together on an extensive and long term programme of joint research projects. NRC has established a research facility at the University’s West Cambridge site and collaborates with several departments – initially the Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department – on projects that, to begin with, are centered on nanotechnology.

Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into 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 low price.

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My bad, I took a slightly longer vacation than first expected.  Yes, a swell holiday except getting snowed in, in Queenstown.  I vow to never fly Qantas airlines again.  Air New Zealand had the right GPS gear to land in Queenstown but Qantas’ planes were out of date so they kindly put us on a bus for 8 hours and then had to wait 2 days till another flight, no costs paid for, alas a fantastic trip beside this.

I made it back just in time to get to Meshuggah’s gig as well which was fantastic.  It’s almost uncanny how Sweden can produce pop sensations ABBA and also down-tuned, polyrhythmic Meshuggah madness.

Guess what? – I voted today, yip about 3 weeks early, a special vote if your heading out of town.  I voted for a centre-left/democrat party to give you a hint.

Phew, last paragrah I promise … Google Reader led me to a fantastic new device that will make even the iphone look like an obsolete pile of plastic – check out the video, Nokia Morph:

A NOKIA é sem duvida alguma uma das maiores investigadoras em aparelhos móveis, e o NOKIA Morph tem um conceito bastante avançado para a tecnologia actual…
Baseado principalmente na nanotecnologia, este aparelho tem todas as condições para ser a invenção do século caso alguma vez saia do papel…

segue link para video interessante e impressionante sobre possibilidades da nanotecnologia…

Nokia Morph

Présenté à l’occasion de l’exposition “Design and the Elastic Mind” au MOMA de New York, le concept de téléphone portable Nokia “Morph” est le fruit de la collaboration entre le centre de recherche de Nokia et le Nanoscience Center de l’Université anglaise de Cambridge.

Basé sur les dernières avancées en matière de nanotechnologies et de technologies organiques, le concept phone Nokia “Morph” s’affranchit des contraintes de rigidité classiques pour proposer un design totalement translucide, flexible, étirable, autonettoyant et capable de se régénérer.

Et concernant la concrétisation de ces technologies dans de futures applications commerciales, Tapani Ryhänen, directeur du Centre de Recherche Nokia à Cambridge explique que “Les techniques que nous développons pourraient se traduire un jour par de nouvelles possibilités en termes de conception et de fonctionnement des appareils mobiles”, et plus concrètement, on peut espérer que certains éléments du concept “Morph” pourront être repris d’ici 7 à 10 ans dans les futurs modèles haut de gamme de la marque.

Nano Technology has evolved as an all together different technology area in the mobile world. Mobile phones are advancing at a great and faster pace than never before and Nokia Morph is truly a mobile wonder. This phone has been developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge (UK).

The Morph specialty lies in the design and technology used to make it possible. The best part of this phone is that you can transform it according to your wish and that what exactly Nokia wanted to come up with- Flexible and Reliable phone. You can radically change the phone in different shapes one of being the bracelet way.

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge added, “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together”

Mobile phones like Nano Morph certainly depict the upcoming Nano Technology and it will surely be a front-runner in the use of various gadgets and technologies be it Computers, Air Conditioners, Robots, Cars or like this one viz Mobile phones and smartphones. Nokia Morph is truly an absolutely wonderful gadget with flexible bending and wearing options and surely the best in the gadgets segment from the house of Nokia. Wonder what will be next from Nokia, World’s leader in the Communication segment.

Nokia Morph is truly a gadget of a lifetime and a wonder from the house of Nokia.

Antes de nada aclarar que es solo un concepto, aunque Nokia junto con la Universidad de Cambridge está trabajando en ello y parece que es en serio. Tan solo hechad un vistazo al vídeo y si tenéis más dudas a la noticia de Xataka que es bastante interesante. Lo que comentaba con un compañero es si tendremos que vender nuestra domótica casa para comprarlo xD. Pues eso, muy prometedor, muy chulo, para todos los públicos y además de Nokia, ¿que más se puede pedir?.

Fuente: Xataka

Ho visto il video su Geekissimo, e ve lo ripropongo anche qui.
Nokia 888 è un Concept Phone basato sulla tecnologia Morph.
Suppongo non sia già stato sviluppato e che il video sia frutto di computergrafica. In ogni caso viene ben spiegato quali sono le possibilità e i punti di forza delle nanotecnologie.

Nokia Morph Concept è in sviluppo anche grazie alla ricerca in atto al Cambridge Nanoscience Centre