This might just revolutionalize the mobilephone/MID industry and save Nokia...it's kinda interesting and people might not care if it's Meego or Symbian?

Nokia pushing Graphene as super-material of the future

AMAZING: Nokia Morph in Phone Mode. Graphene is a thin, light, super-strong, flexible material that may be the key to developing revolutionary devices. - AFP/Relaxnews

Graphene is a super-material that Nokia believes will revolutionise gadgets and "change the world." Nokia explains, "Graphene is an allotrope of carbon and its 2D structure measures just one atom thick.

While being thin, it's the strongest material ever tested, having a breaking strength 200 times greater than steel and is also the lightest material ever, best intrinsic conductor and super-flexible, too. It's predicted to replace silicon as the base for all electronics."

This thin, light, super-strong, flexible material may be the key to developing revolutionary devices, such as Nokia's "Morph," that up until now have only been envisioned as far-fetched concepts.

"We're not just talking about mobile phones here, we're talking about the technology in its vastness. Once the technology exists, your TV could - in theory - just be unrolled and pasted to your living room wall, like a roll of wallpaper," adds Nokia in a June 14 post on its Conversations blog.

While the possibilities for Graphene-based gadgets are mind-boggling there is still a lot of research to be done.

Nokia is teaming up with four Nobel laureates: Dr Andrea Gelm, Dr Konstantin Novoselov, Dr K. von Klitzing and Dr A. Fert to further the technology as part of the Graphene Flagship programme.

The Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Manchester, the University of Lancaster, the University of Cambridge, AMO Gmbh, the Catalan institute of Nanotechnology, the Italian research council, and the European Science foundation will also be involved in the programme.

The Graphene Flagship programme was launched on May 4 in Budapest with the goal of bringing "this most-promising material to the real-world." It is part of an ambitious science-driven, research initiative in the EU called the Future and Emerging Technology (FET) Flagships project. A video of Nokia's Morph concept can be seen here: youtu.be/IX-gTobCJHs.

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www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php

cool, but I cant say I like it much

Exciting suff thanks for sharing.

Seen it before, a long time ago. Nothing new and it's not real. Not even as concept.

This is not about Nokia Morph as a device. The thing is about the research (on materials and on manufacturing methods) that is needed for these types of devices to become reality.

Nokia needs to imagine how to create a market for it. If it's market as just another internet-smartphone or iPad competition ... then waste of the R&D.

Just to clear it up that concept is from early 2008.

Not to break the dreaming session but back in 2006 Nokia had 2 videos showing all TS UI that Nokia said to be the future. Well that was ineed true and similar UI was then released, by Apple year later. Nokia had nothing and started building TS platform on AVKON that was not meant for TS use.

What i'm saying is that don't get carried away with these things. They rarely come to fruition in a time frame for you to get interested or at all. Like Nokia's haptikos already demoed on 700 and N800 back in 2007

I hope Elop makes better use if that industries highest R&D pool. His first comments about Nokia not using it's assets and being surprised just how much interesting stuff there is in Nokia's labs hopefully hint to that direction. I wanna have that Aeon damn it! HW wise making that real should not even be a problem these days.

Not that either. This is about using new materials (=graphene in this specific case) and new manufacturing methods in "old types of devices" as well as enabling new types of devices (=Morph and even more advanced things).

This is also not just about Nokia. They have gathered a huge network to work on this.

Thanks for the clarification...but it was the first time seeing it for me.

That is cool. Design sucks... Would cut me open in my pocket!