UPDATE: Someone at Wired has decided to make some fun at Nokia’s future phone
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Some videos I’ll put up here will be boring and this one is exactly that.
If you are easily bored, this geek “What If” movie put out by the celphone maker Nokia is not for you.
However, if you want to see one possible future when nanoscale materials are used to make a super celphone, stick with me.
The video is five minutes long, and shows a sketch of a young woman sitting at an outdoor bistro. With her is her trusty green celphone that’s about five inches by four inches, but paper thin. She makes a call and after she’s finished, she folds up her phone in thirds lengthwise, and like the slap bracelets of old, wraps it around her wrist. Cute, right? Later, she is thinking about biting into a piece of fruit, but she hesitates, and instead unfolds her phone, waves the thin phone near the fruit, and her phone analyzes the fruity aroma and informs her that, yes, her apple wasn’t poisoned by the evil witch of the West. Er, whatever.
You get the point. Several image size comparisons used for scale, and several properties that Nokia sees coming with the nanoscale revolution going on in materials science. Drop a bit of honey on the phone’s surface? No problem, the nanofibers are superresistant to getting dirty. Don’t like the ugly green phone color shown throughout the video? No problem, the end of the video has her taking a picture of her purse of the moment, and the phone has the option of becoming a slap bracelet phone with the exact pattern.
There’s little doubt that materials science is fairly boring. So is civil engineering. If you love it, it is just amazing, because that’s what the “stuff” around you is made with, and if done properly, made to last. It’s just fun to watch what some of the personal applications can be like with these new super materials.
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(I’ve sized up the movie a touch so as to better read some of the text.
If there’s too much blurriness, go to the YouTube page)
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