Apple just filed a patent for its screen, possibly implementing this technology. I wish I could post the link here. Just search in google "apple patent application shows second display"
It's a video about ideas. You know all those swipes, multi-touch gestures and accelerometer functions on your smartphone that feel so intuitive? They didn't appear out of thin air. Someone had to take a rough idea about how it might function, and actually make it work as well as it does.
Keep an open mind. Imagination coupled with concepts like these are what give you the products of today and the innovations of tomorrow.
neat stuff, but wrong direction. mobile of the future should be really, well mobile: retinal display trough cyber contact lenses, earring speakers that talk to you trough bone vibrations, and a troat mic for subvocal conversation. The future of conversation is techno-telepathy, not cluttering your pockets with gadgets.
This guy is like 10 years too late with this crap invention. The only one that appears remotely useful is the weighted direction guide. All that other stuff is garbage and just makes the phone more annoying. Who wants there phone to weigh more and have some annoying motor function operating even when your not getting a call. Maybe when phones were twice the size they are today this would have been a little interesting but overall this is just annoying.
I actually can see that as a great tool for blind poeple, don't hate the guy because u think his invention is not useful for you it might be useful for others.
@reda02812 *facepalm* Are you a little bit blind yourself? As far as what you are refering to that WAS the only thing that I said would be useful in the first place. All those other device inventions are completely retarded. Of course some company will probably pick up that stupid thing about having a phone with a heart-beat. There is always room for stupid in this world anyway. I knew a guy who invented flavored golf tees and he's rich as fuck. You can't forget about "My Pet Rock" now can you?
I think a similar device for the visually impaired would be very useful. It could change shape, its center of gravity etc, as a visual cue to how close it is to an object, or what the ground underfoot looks like.
This is one of those things which you see it and say: why didn't I think on it first?. Now everyone taking it as a useless ideas but one day we all will have it on our pockets...
The weight shifting should be possible with fluids. Think of a bag filled with a fluid and equipped with (many) magnets. The magnets could press (on certain points) the two sides of the bag together and make the fluid move. You wouldn't even need moving parts. (The fluid could possible be some sort of battery-chemicals too)
Might be done when nanotechnology will be advanced enough to produce material that reacts to electric charges like human muscles do. Witch such concepts you have to think ahead and not with current materials. We already have thiner screens due to OLED technology and who knows what the future will bring.
I feel there is a serious vacuum for high quality minimalist mobile phones out there today. I see the upside of having a combined divice acting as a PDA with phone, clock, internet, camera, music player, GPS, etc. But it would be nice to have the option to get a mobile phone that just has great battery life, signal capability, and can do calls and SMS, and can survive hitting the gound/wall or falling in water.
@gulllars There is a reason that that vacuum exists and no one has yet filled it. Those combined features and low durability are tools by which corporations can profit. They can't advertise as easily without an internet-capable (or similarly so as in "feature") phones, and it does not benefit them to make products that are more durable than consumers demand.
Quite nice concepts, especially the weight-shifting, but I can't ever see these being applied (at least, not in portable devices), since physical mechanisms take up way more space than the electronic systems.
Not discouraging, but I am hater, and you know what they say about haters. :) Dawg you are only using some servos and motors... I don't understand the application of "physical" sensation when we can grasp the information through the already used methods? The accelerometer for mobile devices aren't cutting edge but you know does the same thing you are proposing. Though I am some-what interested in the concept of "physical media". Not discouraging, but not TED material y'know. Always question! :D
i was about to say that shape changing phones won't catch on until mobile phones continue their rush to reduce in size until they are finally too small to comfortably use - and we have to make them artificially bigger than the technology requires (ie: they will be full of wasted space).
But then i realised that we've already passed that point: Since the introduction of smartphones, phones are now getting BIGGER so that they have large highres readable screens.
I have an idea how to make a future mobile phone . Put a dual core 3 GHz processor into it , a xenon flash for the camera , a pico 1080p projector , a 3D vision display and make it last on month without charging . Now that's a future phone .
@HerrXRDS And why would I need that in my mobile phone? 3D display, ok, can be useful. long battery life will come. But dual core 3GHz CPU? You want to run movie encoding in your pocket? Mobile phone do not need more power, it needs more usability concepts.
If you are reading a book on an ereader you DO NOT want it to be heavy...his Harry Potter reference. Most of these ideas are spastic. Really lousy presentation.
People seemed to dismiss this presentation easily and I had doubts but the concepts he presents are awesome and when technology will allow it, I am sure some of them will be implemented in mainstream phones.
There's value to making things sensory intuitive. But have you ever seen a phone review where they wished the phone was heavier or thicker? I haven't.
Adding moving parts to phones makes them more vulnerable to breakage - the solid state machinery is one of the advantages. But hey as ideas go, it's creative.
Imagine that these thoughts were presented by STEVE JOBS .. would it made just a number of views in a youtube account OR millions of dollars in mobile phone industry ?
Actually the concept it´s pretty cool. But the tecnology for make it useful now maybe not. The esence of this concept is intelligent mass and intelligent form. What´s wrong with that!
I cant believe people are being so literal. Those things he made aren't even prototypes, they are just concepts. Of course any phone with anything like this is going to be no bigger or heavier than any other phone. They are only ideas anyway, whats wrong with people having crazy ideas and seeing if they work?
I for one think the wait shifting thing is brilliant.
@WhichDoctor1 You're right it's just an idea of one guy... just some money and research and the stuff he showed us could be working properly and be less chubby. Escpecially the weight shifting should be quite doable...
@WhichDoctor1 I get that. I just think it's a little dumb that he obviously has put a lot of effort into this, but these stupid applications are the best he can come up with.
@WhichDoctor1 Yeah, I think the whole point of TED is to talk about / promote / encourage a variety of concepts and ideas, that among other things, so like you said, this kind of talk shouldn't be looked down upon so much.
@WhichDoctor1 really? A phone that breathes? Larger on the side because there is more content?
Sorry, you have to identify stupidity when it is presented to you.
And the blatant publicity on the iphone? Just nonsense. I prefer a keyboard 1million times over any touch. Writing by touch is awesome, saves time and is (in some situations) safer.
@kriptonis I have no problem with criticizing the ideas my comment was referring to all those people who were commenting "WHY WOULD I WONT A PHONE THAT'S TWICE THE SIZE OF MY CURRENT ONE WITH A BIG LED WEIGHT IN IT?!?!?"
Personally I like the first two ideas, the third one is a bit silly but to be honest I know people who mite well buy it.
this is just plain stupid ... y would u make the future technology bigger and harder to carry ?! i just want my iPhone to do as much possible at its size !
First two ideas seem functional, third is a little silly but could find some great uses. Of course, it won't be functional because it would double the weight and size of already large phones..
So it's basically a 1000$ tamagotchi? But seriously! A 5-6 cm thick phone that gets nervous when you get a cal and eventually will jump right out of your pocket and run away, who the hell needs that?
it's interesting. and the primary use of a good idea (that first little invention that might not seem necessary) isn't always what the technology ends up being used for in the end. embrace the possibilities of change. It's not merely about a useless addition to a phone. It's also about thinking about what else that technology could be used for.
@NextToNothing123 It would be nice if he would spend the time on developing functional robotic limbs for example, not a stupid feature for a phone. A mobile phone has the purpose of making you able to reach other people while you are not near a normal phone, not to be your feeling, bleeding companion. It's cool yes, but there are also more serious and urgent problems that deserve attention, but don't get money because people at marketing think this is more important.That's the sad part.
If the components become smaller and smaller, at some points there will be room to add new features to the current smart phones. This is assuming people don't want to compromise on screen size (which I doubt they will). The demo is meant to illustrate the concept, not give you a sense of proportions.
Its a cute idea but it reminds me of the old vibrating rumble pack controllers. You can get much more precise feedback from sound and visuals, than having to weigh the device in your hands. If the sensation is strong enough to really give you feedback, it will probably just be annoying.
Maybe it could work for some kind of game controller, though i think the future there is something which has resistance, rather weight or shape.
I can't speak to that, I'd have to experience the feel of a weighted/shifting device before judgement. Like every idea there are more ways to implement it badly than to do it right. But I'm an optimist and I do believe that there exists at least one way to do it right.
And the future of 'screen size' is either projectors or flexible, expanding screens, not to make the device larger. Perhaps that is a fair way in the future, but its on the same kind of time scale as this sort of stuff.
I have doubts about protectors replacing current screens. We're far away from a solely projector based UI. I'm more inclined to think projectors will simply be an added feature on current lines of feature phones.
Flexible screens are interesting, but much like soap-bar feature phones didn't make regular phones disappear, I don't think flexible display phones would make soap-bar feature phones obsolete. There will still be room for innovation in the soap-bar feature phone category.
You can really tell who's opposed to change here. Sure, the craft that we went to the moon with were useless are far as actual travel was concerned, but all technologies take baby steps to become useful. Maybe a mobile phone is the wrong application for this, the guy has a strong point about making the digital aspects of things more tangible.
Yeah I think this is a really interesting idea at its core, but you're right that it just doesn't seem practical for a phone. A video game remote with this technology seems like it would be a good fit. Gotta be some killer apps out there...
Wow, why such negativity? Just because a new technology seems like something unnecessary doesn't mean it can't later be implemented in something important. The first computers were terrible. They took up whole rooms and could barely do everyday math. People back then were likely saying the same things as you are now. "This is pointless. I can already do my math by hand."
May not be the most practical application (a phone) but I think the idea of the technology is genius. He's really onto something--making the digital physical. I don't think this is anything to scoff at. If not applied specifically to a phone, in future this way of thinking could be very useful. I'm impressed.
@blurglide Clearly, these ideas won't end up in our phones, but there are a lot of other ways that you could apply these concepts to many technologies.
His Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia is now quite formally BasketCaseable, lacking graspability within his corporeal physicality albeit aplomb with social detachments et al excepting for the "heavy petting" engaged upon with his "device" oh so close & dear........
I'm not so sure about this. The more hidden the technology gets the more abstract it is from us, the users. The less self serviceable, and thus the more dependent upon it we become. I've been reading the book by Matthew B Crawford, "Shop Class As Soulcraft" ..perhaps he is better at explaining this.
@askjdog Definitely agree. "Magic boxes" hinder understanding. Concepts such as "god" and "government" are abstract forms of it, leading people to follow rather than actively think and solve/fix their own problems.
@hughtub "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
the world is already dependant on things it doesnt understand, there was an earlier TED talk where the guy said he seriously doubted a single person in the world knew how to make even a pencil from scratch, how to make the paint, rubber, metal, tools, graphite, etc.
nobody understands truly how the world around them works, so i don't mind if they continue advancing, and hiding new technology, nothing will change.
@Neylonx That is also true. I prefer transparency whenever practical. For example, how many people know how a toilet flush operates? If the tank were transparent, everyone would, and that many more people would internalize that information and create future innovation. My ideal is to make most things be able to be visually analyzed. Transparency, glass, minimalism to the functional parts. Let's see transparent speakers, children can see it's a simple concept and be less intimidated.
"i wanna feel that harry potter buuok"...
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juliacotic 4 months ago
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000blueboy 4 months ago
really interesting demonstration ..grate job
andreeaweed 4 months ago
guess whose propaganda channel is getting more thumb-downs every day
Zareste 9 months ago
Apple just filed a patent for its screen, possibly implementing this technology. I wish I could post the link here. Just search in google "apple patent application shows second display"
jamestakeshi 11 months ago
It's young Dr Strangelove!
angularsofty 1 year ago
I think this could replace the walking stick on blind people.
A sensor to detect incoming people/obstacles + weight for directions + size for distances (small-far, big-close) = no more walking stick!
It would be even cooler if it was put into a pair of glasses or cellphone earset.
leonidasx666 1 year ago
It's fun to see someone think outside the box. Those things may not become true, but it's a good thing someone tries to come up with new things.
kablamo9999 1 year ago
im a PHD student. oh are you? thats nice
Seagerash 1 year ago
I like the Idea but it maybe not so practical.
x8xlink93x8x 1 year ago
It's a video about ideas. You know all those swipes, multi-touch gestures and accelerometer functions on your smartphone that feel so intuitive? They didn't appear out of thin air. Someone had to take a rough idea about how it might function, and actually make it work as well as it does.
Keep an open mind. Imagination coupled with concepts like these are what give you the products of today and the innovations of tomorrow.
helenacell 1 year ago 2
This is so useless it's not even funny.
BandyinaBasket 1 year ago 8
give it skin and fur
EcoDimension 1 year ago 2
I don't think this idea really worth spreading ! q(;^;)p
shembelcut 1 year ago
wouldn't call this "out of the box" thinking, this is overthinking.
oxygenownz 1 year ago 6
why would you have a hamster in your pocket????
jgeckeler 1 year ago
neat stuff, but wrong direction. mobile of the future should be really, well mobile: retinal display trough cyber contact lenses, earring speakers that talk to you trough bone vibrations, and a troat mic for subvocal conversation. The future of conversation is techno-telepathy, not cluttering your pockets with gadgets.
8legsFreak 1 year ago
im sorry but this is stupid
JWumboTravel 1 year ago 7
@JWumboTravel Agreed.
befreier1 1 year ago
This guy is like 10 years too late with this crap invention. The only one that appears remotely useful is the weighted direction guide. All that other stuff is garbage and just makes the phone more annoying. Who wants there phone to weigh more and have some annoying motor function operating even when your not getting a call. Maybe when phones were twice the size they are today this would have been a little interesting but overall this is just annoying.
befreier1 1 year ago
@befreier1
I actually can see that as a great tool for blind poeple, don't hate the guy because u think his invention is not useful for you it might be useful for others.
reda02812 1 year ago 2
@reda02812 *facepalm* Are you a little bit blind yourself? As far as what you are refering to that WAS the only thing that I said would be useful in the first place. All those other device inventions are completely retarded. Of course some company will probably pick up that stupid thing about having a phone with a heart-beat. There is always room for stupid in this world anyway. I knew a guy who invented flavored golf tees and he's rich as fuck. You can't forget about "My Pet Rock" now can you?
befreier1 1 year ago
Like the shape-shifting. The heartbeat phone would definately take a little while to get use to. BS2
bigswallow2 1 year ago
I think applied static fields can do everything he is trying to do, and not waste battery life on motors.
JanisXAChambers 1 year ago
@JanisXAChambers but thene it'll not be physical contact as he described...
Lostpanda123 1 year ago
can ted stop posting commercials.
DrewsAnimation 1 year ago
@DrewsAnimation are you willing to pay for the videos? ;)
kriptonis 1 year ago
Amazing ideas :) I love TED :D
sidehop 1 year ago
i like all those ideas, except the breathing heartbeating phone, it may cause an illussion of a living phone that may lead to psicological issues.
bestplugins 1 year ago
wow what a useless snore.
ratholin 1 year ago
I think a similar device for the visually impaired would be very useful. It could change shape, its center of gravity etc, as a visual cue to how close it is to an object, or what the ground underfoot looks like.
mr3dguy 1 year ago
pointless except maybe the nightstand idea
funnyguise 1 year ago
This is one of those things which you see it and say: why didn't I think on it first?. Now everyone taking it as a useless ideas but one day we all will have it on our pockets...
skanaos 1 year ago
I love the last thin he says.
HakerzTM 1 year ago
Love the moving weight concept.....it will definitely enhance user experience.
ganeshiyer27 1 year ago
Not so sure you should base a mobile phone off a hamster. They poop all over my hands.
cjdaweasel 1 year ago
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madscientistify 1 year ago
The weight shifting should be possible with fluids. Think of a bag filled with a fluid and equipped with (many) magnets. The magnets could press (on certain points) the two sides of the bag together and make the fluid move. You wouldn't even need moving parts. (The fluid could possible be some sort of battery-chemicals too)
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this is the gayest shit ever.
1schwererziehbar1 1 year ago
Might be done when nanotechnology will be advanced enough to produce material that reacts to electric charges like human muscles do. Witch such concepts you have to think ahead and not with current materials. We already have thiner screens due to OLED technology and who knows what the future will bring.
KeroSannin 1 year ago
Coolness! His accent is really cool too! :P
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My phone will soon be a living device lol.
flintbrenick 1 year ago
This guy should shave a bit with Occam's Razor.
I feel there is a serious vacuum for high quality minimalist mobile phones out there today. I see the upside of having a combined divice acting as a PDA with phone, clock, internet, camera, music player, GPS, etc. But it would be nice to have the option to get a mobile phone that just has great battery life, signal capability, and can do calls and SMS, and can survive hitting the gound/wall or falling in water.
The weight thing was interresting.
gulllars 1 year ago 17
@gulllars ~ I agree. "This guy should shave a bit with Occam's Razor." = Brilliant
jacruce 1 year ago
@gulllars Try the Samsung B2100. It does all those things.
RichardEleven13 1 year ago
@gulllars There is a reason that that vacuum exists and no one has yet filled it. Those combined features and low durability are tools by which corporations can profit. They can't advertise as easily without an internet-capable (or similarly so as in "feature") phones, and it does not benefit them to make products that are more durable than consumers demand.
TritonAlias 1 year ago
@gulllars "the weight thing was not horrible", is a better representation of reality.
kriptonis 1 year ago
Clever man, you will gate an A
mohaltron 1 year ago
Quite nice concepts, especially the weight-shifting, but I can't ever see these being applied (at least, not in portable devices), since physical mechanisms take up way more space than the electronic systems.
Nice try, but try again.
SoundOfScilence 1 year ago
Not discouraging, but I am hater, and you know what they say about haters. :) Dawg you are only using some servos and motors... I don't understand the application of "physical" sensation when we can grasp the information through the already used methods? The accelerometer for mobile devices aren't cutting edge but you know does the same thing you are proposing. Though I am some-what interested in the concept of "physical media". Not discouraging, but not TED material y'know. Always question! :D
ZeddysZ 1 year ago
digital camouflage?
beliebigerusername 1 year ago
i was about to say that shape changing phones won't catch on until mobile phones continue their rush to reduce in size until they are finally too small to comfortably use - and we have to make them artificially bigger than the technology requires (ie: they will be full of wasted space).
But then i realised that we've already passed that point: Since the introduction of smartphones, phones are now getting BIGGER so that they have large highres readable screens.
Gimme a big FOLD-OUT phone screen
roidroid 1 year ago
this is fucking retarded. hopefully this clown never acquires a PhD, otherwise people might get the impression that he's intelligent.
blklightning330 1 year ago
flobbadobbawobbadob?
Art4261 1 year ago
Some great ideas; Innovative. Makes me re-access the human / computer interface. I enjoyed this.
deisaldog 1 year ago
If my computer was "living" it would get frequent erections.
jamaq 1 year ago 20
@jamaq
it depens if your computer is a male or female :P
romeoneverdies 1 year ago
hi look up brian mc dowell you raise me up
TheBrian2585 1 year ago
I really like the attempt... But don't quite like the results so far :/
sandinsx 1 year ago
I have an idea how to make a future mobile phone . Put a dual core 3 GHz processor into it , a xenon flash for the camera , a pico 1080p projector , a 3D vision display and make it last on month without charging . Now that's a future phone .
HerrXRDS 1 year ago
@HerrXRDS And why would I need that in my mobile phone? 3D display, ok, can be useful. long battery life will come. But dual core 3GHz CPU? You want to run movie encoding in your pocket? Mobile phone do not need more power, it needs more usability concepts.
akodo77 1 year ago
this is stupid...... a phone that breathes ..... seriously ??
mralfredotv 1 year ago
nah i dont think so buddy..not gunna happen, and if it does a LONG way down the road
jackster1990 1 year ago
It is clever of course, but not to the level I am used to from TED talks. I agree: more quality control please, bring only the best of the best.
caviper1 1 year ago
@phobos811 ha shamefully so right.. While these people complain .. apple will steal these ideas and they'll be first in line to buy and praise them
LeJamesPe 1 year ago
If you are reading a book on an ereader you DO NOT want it to be heavy...his Harry Potter reference. Most of these ideas are spastic. Really lousy presentation.
dswellhauser 1 year ago
thats kinda dumb lol
dajion6 1 year ago
i liked the third one... but imagine the third in the pocket of your pants... people might not realise that its your phone that is the happy one
profjaykay 1 year ago
i hate this guy.... and he doesnt convey his thoughts very well.....
vrsaat 1 year ago
Mr. Hemmert, I do not see this profoundly advancing human interface to technology. Good luck, but back to the drawing board.
kinsmed 1 year ago
I don't like the idea of phones being more human...
whydizz 1 year ago
lame.
beanzaronii 1 year ago
He he he he ... sooo the future of new vibrators. Also funny "I want to feel that harry potter... its thick."
8DX 1 year ago
wste of research money... heart beat? make it digital graspable? what a load of toffe
not worth investing brain time
make phones better by....display on inside of car windscreen... hands free/ hud display living mobiles, waste of bat power and embarassing
quantumreflex 1 year ago
@quantumreflex
Apparently creativity is not an easy concept to grasp when an object is seen to only operate in one dimension.
ElementalAtom 1 year ago
fantabulously amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
drritesh 1 year ago
People seemed to dismiss this presentation easily and I had doubts but the concepts he presents are awesome and when technology will allow it, I am sure some of them will be implemented in mainstream phones.
BastiSexMuffin 1 year ago 2
I LOVE Modern Technology! So glad I wasnt born in the 1700s or earlier!!!
SkepticalBliss 1 year ago
Porno could get quite interesting now ;-)
TheSpankymonkey 1 year ago
@muhammadfuckedAkid i did, i fucking LOVE that background, where did you get it
blazereef 1 year ago
There's value to making things sensory intuitive. But have you ever seen a phone review where they wished the phone was heavier or thicker? I haven't.
Adding moving parts to phones makes them more vulnerable to breakage - the solid state machinery is one of the advantages. But hey as ideas go, it's creative.
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Imagine that these thoughts were presented by STEVE JOBS .. would it made just a number of views in a youtube account OR millions of dollars in mobile phone industry ?
GREAT IDEA Fabian Hemmert !
salital123 1 year ago
If this is the future of cellphones, I think retro is going to be making a big splash in cell phones.
christo930 1 year ago
@christo930 please see the highest rated comment to see how unoriginal your comment is.
crisis123456789 1 year ago
@crisis123456789 I didn't know I was in an originality contest. Take a look at my screen name, does that should "originality" or "creativity"?
christo930 1 year ago
@christo930 I didn't mean to say you were in an originality contest.
But it does help to at least scan some comments before ploughing ahead and writing something that has already been said over and over.
Especially when your particular gripe has already been well address by the top comment.
crisis123456789 1 year ago
@crisis123456789 Sometimes I post without reading the comments.
christo930 1 year ago
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salital123 1 year ago
Great fresh new twist on some old ideas. People love the little "creature features" on their phones. This just extends that idea. Love it.
briansmobile1 1 year ago
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teslaglobal 1 year ago
@muhammadfuckedAkid goddamn i love your name
blazereef 1 year ago
@blazereef Great Idea. make it feel more intouch.
teslaglobal 1 year ago
@teslaglobal with a name and statement that he made, he is very in touch
blazereef 1 year ago
Actually the concept it´s pretty cool. But the tecnology for make it useful now maybe not. The esence of this concept is intelligent mass and intelligent form. What´s wrong with that!
racpembertondual 1 year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=jXITjLurof0
tizacat 1 year ago
This guy is behind... Check out Senseg!
tizacat 1 year ago
Did Steve Jobs sign the non-disclosure agreement before viewing this?
CurtHowland 1 year ago
this guy shud work with that six sense guy :P
Kingitchi85 1 year ago
More fragile mechanical parts is just what the dector ordered for my battery life and frequency of repairs.
Shadowstray 1 year ago
I like, but the third is just a bit to much.
RetardedFishyX 1 year ago
@RetardedFishyX but with the first two operational the third could be turned on and off, it uses the same systems
HomeDistiller 1 year ago
Some very cool ideas here. The future will be interesting. :)
akrulla 1 year ago
first two are not bad, but the third is kinda silly
skaplis 1 year ago
Cheers to that!
thebytegrill 1 year ago
mmmmmmmkay
papatoony 1 year ago
I cant believe people are being so literal. Those things he made aren't even prototypes, they are just concepts. Of course any phone with anything like this is going to be no bigger or heavier than any other phone. They are only ideas anyway, whats wrong with people having crazy ideas and seeing if they work?
I for one think the wait shifting thing is brilliant.
WhichDoctor1 1 year ago 90
@WhichDoctor1 You're right it's just an idea of one guy... just some money and research and the stuff he showed us could be working properly and be less chubby. Escpecially the weight shifting should be quite doable...
Kadoffel 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 Yeah they are only concepts
Silly ones
But still interesting
I would love the shape shifting one, you don't even know how many times I wished the damn thing would stand on its side ^^
RazielKain 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 I get that. I just think it's a little dumb that he obviously has put a lot of effort into this, but these stupid applications are the best he can come up with.
thesheep91 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 Yeah, I think the whole point of TED is to talk about / promote / encourage a variety of concepts and ideas, that among other things, so like you said, this kind of talk shouldn't be looked down upon so much.
XxxkenzaxxX 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1
I cant believe you are being so illiterate.
The proper spelling is "weight shifting".
1schwererziehbar1 1 year ago
@1schwererziehbar1 I can't believe you are being so pedantic :-p
WhichDoctor1 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 "weight", but other then that great post :)
ThaTyger 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 really? A phone that breathes? Larger on the side because there is more content?
Sorry, you have to identify stupidity when it is presented to you.
And the blatant publicity on the iphone? Just nonsense. I prefer a keyboard 1million times over any touch. Writing by touch is awesome, saves time and is (in some situations) safer.
kriptonis 1 year ago
@kriptonis I have no problem with criticizing the ideas my comment was referring to all those people who were commenting "WHY WOULD I WONT A PHONE THAT'S TWICE THE SIZE OF MY CURRENT ONE WITH A BIG LED WEIGHT IN IT?!?!?"
Personally I like the first two ideas, the third one is a bit silly but to be honest I know people who mite well buy it.
WhichDoctor1 1 year ago
@WhichDoctor1 I personally don't like them (the ideas). But I also see no utility in them. That's why I think it's a horrible idea.
Maybe I'm wrong, but for me, "hell no".
Let me rephrase that: For a mobile phone, hell no. But say for a tracking or navigation gadget (replacing the mouse i.e.) ...maybe.
kriptonis 1 year ago
YES!!!!!
TheConstipatedcamel 1 year ago
The last sentence saved his ass, because that is realy necessary. Technical devices should be more intuitive and "human" but his ideas were all crap!
HarveyMushman85 1 year ago
this is just plain stupid ... y would u make the future technology bigger and harder to carry ?! i just want my iPhone to do as much possible at its size !
ssflip 1 year ago
may as well put a marble in a glass box
aarondkeogh 1 year ago
First two ideas seem functional, third is a little silly but could find some great uses. Of course, it won't be functional because it would double the weight and size of already large phones..
orladin 1 year ago 2
So it's basically a 1000$ tamagotchi? But seriously! A 5-6 cm thick phone that gets nervous when you get a cal and eventually will jump right out of your pocket and run away, who the hell needs that?
juditK2007 1 year ago
The only part i thought was absolutely retarded was the living mobile, i mean really? i don't need another bulge in my pants to worry about LOL
PixalEater 1 year ago
TED is losing momentum
betadryl 1 year ago 4
Integrated bio, nerve and eye movement sensors for interaction and health monitoring is the next big thing for mobile devices.
betadryl 1 year ago
TED seems to be going downhill.
elpresidio 1 year ago
@elpresidio Still not as bad as the silver ball that follows you arround in your own house and plays white noise if you have a fight with the Mrs. XD
juditK2007 1 year ago
that blew, I don't want to pet it, I just want it to work.
colquitt2011 1 year ago
next is...being able to "get physical" on youporn
wonderpope 1 year ago
About as needed as 3D TV
CraigusMalaigus 1 year ago
Very awesome, though a bit pointless... Think of the children in Darfur man!
Waranoa 1 year ago
WOW....... this is probably the most useless invention for a phone yet lol
PeeeU 1 year ago
1st minute :)
2nd minute :|
3rd minute (-_-)
4th minute :X
only the weight thing is usefull.
mado9111 1 year ago 13
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the stupid... it hurts.
spacecoke 1 year ago
very good
abcborgess 1 year ago
If hamsters could tell me the time I wouldn't need to carry a phone with me...
eviloatmeal 1 year ago 4
Soo cool! come on people, just enjoy the idea.
it's interesting. and the primary use of a good idea (that first little invention that might not seem necessary) isn't always what the technology ends up being used for in the end. embrace the possibilities of change. It's not merely about a useless addition to a phone. It's also about thinking about what else that technology could be used for.
NextToNothing123 1 year ago 4
@NextToNothing123 It would be nice if he would spend the time on developing functional robotic limbs for example, not a stupid feature for a phone. A mobile phone has the purpose of making you able to reach other people while you are not near a normal phone, not to be your feeling, bleeding companion. It's cool yes, but there are also more serious and urgent problems that deserve attention, but don't get money because people at marketing think this is more important.That's the sad part.
juditK2007 1 year ago
useless
thesalsabear 1 year ago
Great
farhmoha 1 year ago
lol the hamster was the best thing about this video!
dunceordie8675 1 year ago
Because the whole drive of technology hasnt been towards making things lighter and smaller in the past 100 years? Lets make them larger and heavier?
Saktoth 1 year ago
@Saktoth
If the components become smaller and smaller, at some points there will be room to add new features to the current smart phones. This is assuming people don't want to compromise on screen size (which I doubt they will). The demo is meant to illustrate the concept, not give you a sense of proportions.
12oranges 1 year ago
@12oranges
Its a cute idea but it reminds me of the old vibrating rumble pack controllers. You can get much more precise feedback from sound and visuals, than having to weigh the device in your hands. If the sensation is strong enough to really give you feedback, it will probably just be annoying.
Maybe it could work for some kind of game controller, though i think the future there is something which has resistance, rather weight or shape.
Saktoth 1 year ago
@Saktoth
I can't speak to that, I'd have to experience the feel of a weighted/shifting device before judgement. Like every idea there are more ways to implement it badly than to do it right. But I'm an optimist and I do believe that there exists at least one way to do it right.
12oranges 1 year ago
@12oranges
And the future of 'screen size' is either projectors or flexible, expanding screens, not to make the device larger. Perhaps that is a fair way in the future, but its on the same kind of time scale as this sort of stuff.
Saktoth 1 year ago
@Saktoth
I have doubts about protectors replacing current screens. We're far away from a solely projector based UI. I'm more inclined to think projectors will simply be an added feature on current lines of feature phones.
Flexible screens are interesting, but much like soap-bar feature phones didn't make regular phones disappear, I don't think flexible display phones would make soap-bar feature phones obsolete. There will still be room for innovation in the soap-bar feature phone category.
12oranges 1 year ago
@12oranges
The UI is fairly trivial actually (there are TED talks on this).
The problem comes with finding the right lighting conditions, projectors dont work under full light.
Saktoth 1 year ago
You can really tell who's opposed to change here. Sure, the craft that we went to the moon with were useless are far as actual travel was concerned, but all technologies take baby steps to become useful. Maybe a mobile phone is the wrong application for this, the guy has a strong point about making the digital aspects of things more tangible.
sireduardo420 1 year ago
hahahaha....oh wait was this not supposed to be a joke?
WhitieWithBounce 1 year ago
Yeah I think this is a really interesting idea at its core, but you're right that it just doesn't seem practical for a phone. A video game remote with this technology seems like it would be a good fit. Gotta be some killer apps out there...
Stickstacks12 1 year ago
This guy is getting a PHD for this nonsense?
RDJim 1 year ago
Wow, why such negativity? Just because a new technology seems like something unnecessary doesn't mean it can't later be implemented in something important. The first computers were terrible. They took up whole rooms and could barely do everyday math. People back then were likely saying the same things as you are now. "This is pointless. I can already do my math by hand."
rafaravioli 1 year ago 3
May not be the most practical application (a phone) but I think the idea of the technology is genius. He's really onto something--making the digital physical. I don't think this is anything to scoff at. If not applied specifically to a phone, in future this way of thinking could be very useful. I'm impressed.
bcfilmguy 1 year ago 3
Creative, but a non starter. It just doesn't add enough value and benefit for the added size, weight, cost and power consumption.
blurglide 1 year ago
@blurglide Clearly, these ideas won't end up in our phones, but there are a lot of other ways that you could apply these concepts to many technologies.
sireduardo420 1 year ago
=OoO=
His Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia is now quite formally BasketCaseable, lacking graspability within his corporeal physicality albeit aplomb with social detachments et al excepting for the "heavy petting" engaged upon with his "device" oh so close & dear........
WTF???!!!
GaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaCK!.
Casmige 1 year ago
I would be happy if I could get my 4 minutes and 47 seconds back.
AtheistAntitheist 1 year ago
love it!
spyderwalk 1 year ago
PHD REVOKED !!!!!!
MrLukasart 1 year ago
why would there be a hampster in your pocket? haha.
Hrel88 1 year ago
he wants to feel that harry potter thick haha
Euronymous666 1 year ago 2
I'm not so sure about this. The more hidden the technology gets the more abstract it is from us, the users. The less self serviceable, and thus the more dependent upon it we become. I've been reading the book by Matthew B Crawford, "Shop Class As Soulcraft" ..perhaps he is better at explaining this.
askjdog 1 year ago
@askjdog Definitely agree. "Magic boxes" hinder understanding. Concepts such as "god" and "government" are abstract forms of it, leading people to follow rather than actively think and solve/fix their own problems.
hughtub 1 year ago
@hughtub "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
the world is already dependant on things it doesnt understand, there was an earlier TED talk where the guy said he seriously doubted a single person in the world knew how to make even a pencil from scratch, how to make the paint, rubber, metal, tools, graphite, etc.
nobody understands truly how the world around them works, so i don't mind if they continue advancing, and hiding new technology, nothing will change.
Neylonx 1 year ago
@Neylonx That is also true. I prefer transparency whenever practical. For example, how many people know how a toilet flush operates? If the tank were transparent, everyone would, and that many more people would internalize that information and create future innovation. My ideal is to make most things be able to be visually analyzed. Transparency, glass, minimalism to the functional parts. Let's see transparent speakers, children can see it's a simple concept and be less intimidated.
hughtub 1 year ago
Stupid.
chopper753 1 year ago
this seems kind of useless off the bat, but i think this guy is on to something big.
pb3ch 1 year ago
so my shape shifting phone is like a companion cube...i mean its breathing right?
Zeppelinemg 1 year ago
Druid Phones FTW!
BleachRush 1 year ago