Flexible and Transparent Phones Might Be Possible

Some time ago, an idea that seemed so crazy that almost no one gave it any chance, surfaced on the Web. This idea represented a concept phone, called Nokia Morph, which was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and probably unlike anything most of us could have imagined in a lifetime.

In any case, even if the idea was somehow rejected, since nobody believed it could turn out to be real, at least not with current technologies, as you will discover, some people remained loyal to it and continued to work on the development of this new technology.

To get to the focus points, the general idea was to build a transparent and flexible phone that could be functional and also as useful as the advanced mobiles on the market now. Since the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, as Cellular News reported, developed an almost fully transparent chip, the idea seems to be growing on people, and new hopes are emerging. In order to get such results, the scientists used a technology called TRRAM, short for transparent resistive random access memory.

Also, this newly created chip should perform similarly to the CMOS chips we are already acquainted with. The most relevant part regarding this discovery is that such chips can be used to create mobile phones, among other devices.

Furthermore, the Korean Institute is reported as also trying to combine this TRRAM technology with smoother and, most important, more flexible materials. Should such a solution be found, then a mobile phone similar to the Nokia Morph might become a more realizable invention.

Jung Won Seo, one of the Korean researchers at the Institute, declared regarding the development that “It is a new milestone of transparent electronic systems. By integrating TRRAM device with other transparent electronic components, we can create a total see-through embedded electronic system.”

Should you feel optimistic about this new development, it is said that such technologies might be hitting the market in about 3 or 4 years, when we might be entering a new cell phone age.