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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