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Nokia has built a flexible mobile phone that can be used as a keyboard and then bent around the wrist to be worn as a bracelet.

The Morph gadget will be mainstream as a phone by 2015 said Nokia but admitted there were still technical challenges to overcome, with power and the use of new kinds of batteries an area of focus.

Dr Tapani Ryhanen, head of the research centre, said: “The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.”

He said he hoped the combination of art and science would appeal to a larger audience.

The mobile phone company first debuted the device five years ago, yet it has taken the researchers at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge until now to showcase its latest innovation.

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Computer game fanatics hoping to open a Nintendo Wii on Christmas day could be left feeling disappointed as high street retailers are reporting shortages of the bestselling console.

Shops are currently struggling to keep up with demand from consumers, the BBC reports, and many people who put in advance orders for the console have not yet received the gadget.

Nintendo has insisted that it was “doing everything possible” to rectify the situation, shipping out around 3.5 extra consoles around the globe.

“The demand for Wii hardware globally has been unprecedented and higher than Nintendo could ever have anticipated,” a spokeswoman told the BBC.

“Nintendo is now in a position in which seasonality demand trends are being broken, therefore the demand for Wii hardware is constant throughout the whole year globally.

“Due to this phenomenon it is possible that the demand for Wii hardware may outstrip supply,” she said.

Bad news for one games console maker is good news for another, with Sony reporting that US sales of its PlayStation have doubled in the past few weeks thanks to a recent price cut.

Sony recently sold 100,000 PS3s in just seven days.

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Google officially launched Google Gadgets as an ad unit yesterday after about three months of pilot testing. Google’s AdWords platform now supports Google Gadget content in addition to existing text, image, and video offerings. The gadget ads feature an entirely new widget analytics platform for tracking gadget success and interaction, an open caching proxy hosted by Google’s geo-distributed servers, and the introduction of YouTube as a video hosting and transcoding platform free from any Google branding.

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