Nokia Seeks Customer Input for New Mobile Products. Nokia Morph

Leading mobile handset maker Nokia is changing its product development rules by openly sharing futuristic new product ideas on sites such as YouTube, and inviting bloggers and other tech savvy specialists to brainstorm with the company on ideas for future mobile products.

The move represents a drastic change for the company, which formerly operated its product development under secrecy and seclusion.

Nokia recently made a video of its new ‘concept phone’, called Morph, available on YouTube. The new phone is stretchable and flexible, and literally bends to fit on a person’s wrist. The phone’s concept calls for a solar-powered, self-cleaning device which also has a sense of smell.

Nokia Morph. Putting customers to work, Nokia takes on the Web

HELSINKI, March 18 (Reuters) - A popular video on Youtube shows a 'concept phone' that could -- literally -- bend to fit your wrist. Called Nokia Morph, it's also an image of how the world's largest mobile phone maker wants to change.

As the Internet goes mobile and companies like Apple and Google find cool ways to embrace the trend, the mobile market leader is rewriting its product development rulebook. Instead of working in secrecy and isolation, it wants to start sharing.

Nokia Morph. A Cell Phone Made of ...Tapioca?

There's a video playing these days at New York's Museum of Modern Art about a curvaceous cell phone called "Morph." Unlike your typical phone, this one's form-fitting: It wraps around your wrist like a bracelet when you're not using it for calls. It also kills germs and looks out for your health by "sniffing" the surrounding air and analyzing your sweat.

Nokia Morph. Nanotechnology and the bracelet phone

Researchers from Nokia have collaborated with Cambridge University’s Nanoscience Centre to produce the Morph phone. The Morph utilises nanotechnology to break down the stale shape relations of the “brick” phone.

The Nokia ‘Morph’ mobile of the future

A concept phone now on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art demonstrates Nokia’s vision for how handsets might evolve.

The Morph concept is the result of a collaboration between the Nokia Research Centre and Cambridge University’s nanoscience centre.

See Nokia Morph's video...

Free your mobile mind! Nokia "morph" video released

In (perhaps) seven years' time, nanotech materials will allow Nokia to build a mobile that changes shape from laptop to wrist-watch format. The company is publicising its research project, and has released a video of the concept phone.

Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website. More information about the Nanoscience Centre is also available at www.nanoscience.cam.ac.uk.

Nokia Morph

Experience Nokia's latest concept phone the Nokia Morph.

Built on nanotechnology, Nokia Morph can be worn, can be bent or streched to almost any form, can monitor the environment, is solar charged and self cleaning...

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Future of cellphones may belong to nanotechnology

The Internet has been abuzz this week about Morph, a concept cellphone developed by the Finnish company Nokia and the University of Cambridge. The Morph phone doesn't exist -- yet -- but there are images of how it might function at an exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art called "Design and the Elastic Mind." If you can negotiate the eccentric, Flash-based navigation, you can check out the hundreds of entries in the exhibit at moma.org (hint: search for Nokia after you've clicked on the exhibit) -- some are funny, some poignant, some silly, some bizarre and some that look as if they might become really useful someday.