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Nokia’s kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface

October 27th, 2011        

Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface

Hidden within Nokia’s Future Lounge, this very flexible display offers up a glimpse of what sort of thing we could possibly be seeing in Nokia World in 2021. The prototype Nokia Kinetic Device, including its display, can be flexed across both the vertical and horizontal planes — with bending and twisting motions controlling the interface.

Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface

If you bend the screen towards yourself, it acts as a selection function, or zooms in on any pictures you’re viewing. In music mode, you can navigate, play and pause with the tactile interface. It’s still a way off from arriving on phones, though Nokia is aiming to whet developers’ appetites with this prototype.

Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface

We may have seen some twisty interfaces already, but nothing packing a four-inch screen and built-in functionality like this. Nokia couldn’t confirm the screen technology being used. Could that be a flexible AMOLED display from Samsung?

SOURCE via Engadget

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