>
New Topic
>
Reply<
Esato Forum Index
>
Sony Ericsson / Sony >
General
> Sony Working on Oragami Phones
Bookmark topic
Sony’s Tokyo labs have filed a patent on a clever way to get bulky electronic devices into small pockets.
Esato News
The boffins at Sony’s Tokyo labs are working on a clever way to get bulky electronic devices into small pockets. Their plan is to create handheld computers, phones and portable games consoles that fold up for carrying and then become rigid for use.The body and screen of folding gadgets would be made from a flexible polymer containing conductive rubber bracing struts filled with a gel of aluminosilicate particles suspended in silicone oil.When a current is passed through the struts, the particles clump together and harden the gel, making the gadget solid enough to use. Sony has found that it would take very little power to make such a folding device harden, so the drain on its battery should be low. SONY's patent adds that the transition from soft to hard takes just milliseconds. It suggests that the same technique could even be used in a video game controller to make it jolt or change shape in response to on-screen action. source:
Patent Page newscientist concept below via:
yankodesign 
--
Posted: 2007-03-28 15:08:49
Edit :
Quote
SONY's patent adds that the transition from soft to hard takes just milliseconds.
Is that using some form of viagra?
_________________
I stopped fighting my inner demons,
We're on the same side now......
SONY cmd-Z7 cmd-J70
T20e T28s R380s
HBH-DS970
T68i T200 T610 K700i K750I K800i S700i Z520i Z600i P800 P910i P990i
810i
950i
[ This Message was edited by: nanu*1 on 2007-03-28 18:36 ]
--
Posted: 2007-03-28 19:35:54
Edit :
Quote
I love it!
This is definetely something for the future, even though I don't know how they are going to pull it off
--
Posted: 2007-03-28 20:52:01
Edit :
Quote
VIAGRA! the only way trust me
--
Posted: 2007-03-28 21:17:10
Edit :
Quote
New Topic
Reply
