Intel Envisions Shape-Shifting Smartphones
March 10, 2009 | Source: Information Week
Intel and CMU are developing shape-shifting materials that could one day enable a smartphone to expand to the size of a netbook once you take it out of your pocket, and even go spherical so you can stick it on your ear, Bluetooth-like, to make a call.
The researchers are using transparent silicon dioxide hemispheres that can be programmed to be reshaped via electrical impulses.