The launch of the iphone last year was just the beginning. Since then a wave of new touchscreen phones have flooded into the market and Nokia have now added water to a concept phone with a liquid touch.
Touchscreens are fabulous when controlling your user interface, that the lack of keys when texting is still a dilemma. Text entry can be slow and laborious as there is definitely a want for tactile feedback. Samsung’s haptic touchscreen phones are the exception, and were developed to overcome the difficulty of determining which virtual key you have actually selected or if in fact you have actually selected it at all.
Inspired by this, designer Rune Larsen has taken it one step further for Nokia by the introduction of water. The Nokia touchscreen plan involves an inflatable and deflatable membrane- like keypad.
The concept is interesting as the surface of the phone remains the same, smooth and flat, for when you use the touchscreen but as soon as you wish to use the keypad, water is pumped into the keys giving your fingertips something to press and feel whilst texting. The water disappears when you done, although it still remains a mystery as to actually where it goes.
Despite stunning looks combined with this ingenius and lustrous innovation, it is doubtful that the phone will ever be released onto the market, but it’ll be interesting to see what Nokia comes up with next.
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Raymond Canody 11.03.11 at 2:43 pm
when this phone comes out somebody needs to let me know. I’m curious about this technology.