Research centres support enterprise product innovation
Posted by Isidoros Passas at 27 February 2008 in Innovation
In this latest article Michal Lev-Ram, in Fortune technology section, describes the new concept phone by NOKIA. The new concept phone will be the outcome of the collaboration between the Finish telecommunication enterprise and Cambridge Nanoscience center
Based on the company’s research in nanotechnology — the science of building electronics at the subatomic level — the phone will be made out of material that can change into different shapes. In a video illustrating what Morph might someday be able to do, Nokia shows the flexible device transforming from a traditional mobile phone with a detachable ear piece to a flat, paper-thin gadget and a wearable watch. It also shows the transparent, green device tapping solar energy, sensing chemical compounds in the air and repelling dirt particles.
The Nanoscience Center is a research facility completed in January 2003 and located at the north east corner of the University’s West Cambridge Site. The Center provides open access to over 300 researchers from a variety of University Departments to the nanofabrication and characterisation facilities housed in a combination of Clean Rooms and low noise laboratories. Office space is primarily home to the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group, technical and administrative staff and members of other research groups who require long term access to facilities.
Source Fortune Technology
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You can watch the morphing movie here