Nanotechnology
Since the 1950′s, scientists taught of the concept of playing mother nature. To operate on the tiniest scale, the nanometer . This technology allows working with particles of the order of several nanometers. ( a nanometer is billionth of a meter)
Although you probably don’t know it, nanotechnology has already got tons of applications, and scientists still aren’t near their goal. A great example is the iPod Nano. Its memory was tripled, but its size was three times smaller. And that’s one of the things that Nanotechnology does, reinventing the same techniques, but on a Nanoscale. Nanotechnology doesn’t find all its applications in the electronic department, chemistry for example has also got great results. A wallpaint for example, after it dries up, there is no way graffiti will stick on it . It just poors of like water on a rain vest. These inventions are just a minor beginning of what nanotechnology can do. Scientists believe that the mess and problems caused by the industrial revolution, will be fixed by the nano-revolution.
Nice results so far, but now Nokia has entered a project which seems to come straight out of a futuristic steven spielberg movie.
Morph(ing) Time
No, I’m not talking about the power rangers, but about the Morph Concept of Nokia. If I had to explain it in my own words, I would say it’s a i-can-do-a-lot-of-things-gadget. The first thing that’s futuristic about it, is that it can switch shapes. You can fold it, bend it… mix that up with the ability of switching functions, cellphone, agenda, camera …and you got yourself a great gadget.
Its user interface is context dependent, meaning that with every different function, comes a different menu . Next to that the Nokia Morph is self cleaning, another great feature of the nano-revolution. You can call with it, you can test air quality, it’s even able to sense and analyze the smell that fruit gives.
This can be seen in the video that Nokia launched. I summarized only a few things, that Nokia wishes to research in corporation with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom).
If this still doesn’t get you warmed up, than you should really take a look at the video that Nokia launched.
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