Morph Mobile Device Concept is Stretchable and Flexible

We know that Nokia is always looking towards the future of mobile communications, remember the Nokia Aeon Concept PhoneMorph, and Nokia's future mobile phone design concept videos?  Well, the Nokia Research Center has now teamed up with the University of Cambridge on a joint nanotechnology concept called Morph. It basically demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing a user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes, using bendable nanotechnology materials of course.

"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."   - Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering's Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration.  

It's believed that elements of Morph might be available to integrate into handheld devices within 7 years, starting with high-end mobile devices. Advances in nanotechnology could lower manufacturing costs after that, so we might see a device like this hit mainstream users by the time the year 2020 comes around. If you can't wait until then, you can see more about the Morph concept and nanotech at 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.