Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone

This was a video on ted.com that I thought was incredibly interesting. His whole idea was to create a phone that was more "human" and to have technology be more physical instead of remaining in the virtual world. This new idea for a phone would consist of three different parts. The first part being weight-shifting. The phone would be able to change where it weighed the most, changing its mass in different places, so if you move around the content on the screen you can also feel where it is in your hand. The second idea is having the phone be able to shift its shape. It can be thin in your pocket, but when you place it in your hand it can lean toward you, thickening a little. It can also alter its shape so it can be placed on a flat surface, sideways to be used maybe as an alarm clock. The third and final idea is the living mobile phone. It has a pulse. You can feel it in your pocket and you can tell its calm. BUT say you miss a call, well it can get all excited and its "pulse" increases. Don't worry though, you can calm it down by just giving it a little pat.