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Can your fancy iPhone squish up into a compact, portable ball or stretch out into a full-sized keyboard? That's part of the promise/tease of a newly announced joint nanotechnology project between Nokia and the University of Cambridge. Called Morph, the technology is working on turning a fiber similar to spider silk into the basis for all manner of flexible, shape-shifting gear.
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It cleans itself, is completely solar powered -thanks to a covering of 'nano grass'- and can even detect biological agents in the surrounding environment. Pretty cool, I just don't think I'll ever feel the need to rub fruit on my cell phone so it can tell me if it needs to be washed.
Whether or not there will ever be a cell phone that will look quite as fantastical as the aptly dubbed Morph hitting store shelves in the next twenty or so years, the possibilities for incorporating such technologies into mobile applications are endless.