News Story

Here is a news story I had to write for uni. It’s not great but I couldn’t be arsed doing anything else.

Nokia Morph News Story

Nokia has unveiled a new concept phone, Morph, which uses nanotechnology to bend, recharge and self-preserve.

The concept is designed to illustrate the way future consumer appliances might benefit from nanotechnologies such as the ability to bend and lock around your wrist, power themselves via solar energy or detect compounds in the air.

The Morph supposedly uses the new technology to clean itself with small frictionless super hydrophobic materials called “Nanoflowers”. This allows liquids to roll off it, while spider silks and microfibres allow the phone to stretch into tablets, wrist-bands or handhelds.

The phone’s technologies are being jointly researched by Nokia and Cambridge University and show promise in other fields such as energy conservation. “Nanograss” would line building walls and windows to solar power them locally or to analyse air pollution and detect bio-chemical traces.

“We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience,” said Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Cambridge NRC Head in a Nokia press release.

The Morph draws heavy inspiration from the Nokia 888 another concept phone designed by Tamer Nakisci of Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. The 888 can bend, make videocalls, play movies and be worn as a wristband but was not designed with nanotechnology in mind.