Nokia expects real-life 'Transformers' in seven years

By Tim Conneally | Published February 25, 2008, 6:03 PM

Nokia MorphOn display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from February 24 to May 12 is a nanotechnology-equipped concept mobile device.

The Morph is the result of an ongoing partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge, and illustrates their ideas of how future devices will look and function. It's a multipurpose unit with context-dependent shape; so whatever its intended use may be at the time, it can be structurally modified to fit the user's needs.


Nokia's partnership with the University of Cambridge began in 2007 and encompasses different projects in several areas. While these initial developments come from the nanoscience center and electrical division of the engineering department at Cambridge, other groups will be included in upcoming projects.

Nokia, in typically forward-thinking fashion, said it expects certain features shown in the Morph demo to be integrated into handheld devices within seven years.

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Who cares about a transforming phone? I want to know when the sequel to the Transformer movie is coming out!

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got to love how they integrated the wireless handfree unit.

i wonder why they have not started to ship them that way allready, rather then these wired ones thats more in the way then useful...

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Well, in 70-700 years we will have that, taking into account our current speed of development.

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forget that, I was promised flying cars, where are my flying cars... and mr fusion.

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Lets hope it becomes reality - soon. Without the price tag :P

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It's a cool idea but it's an f'ing cartoon for crying out loud. Morph can't do s*** because it doesn't exist.

I love the utopian, perfect happy world look & feel of the cartoon set in some ultra clean, minority free planned community. It's like something out of Demolition Man.

It's too bad 90% of the population wont have any use for it, let alone be smart enough to figure it out.

What a joke, we can barely build batteries that dont explode and weigh less than a pound.

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It says 7 years right in the headline.

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Ummm....lol oops. Guess I overlooked that part lol =p.

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It says...

"...expects certain features shown in the Morph demo to be integrated into handheld devices within seven years."

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i want to see flying cars first, it will ramain a concept!

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Flying cars...... Could you picture the idiots on the street today trying to pilot a vehicle through the Z axis? Isn't the fact that I have to share X and Y with them bad enough. Some jagoff's Moller 400 will come crashing through my roof right as im jerking off because he was playing Tetris on his Morph.

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Next week

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Screw the iPhone. I want one of those.

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Right.

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Wow...Now that is simply amazing. I wonder when we will actually see something like this?

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Incredible.

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