Flexible benefits

Anyone who owns a smartphone knows that as useful as they are, they are often prone to breaking. Take a walk outside, and you’ll most likely encounter a few people using smartphones with damaged screens. 

With this in mind, Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab has developed a flexible smartphone. Known as the HoloFlex, the device has a completely flexible body and a holographic screen. The phone’s ability to bend might seem like a novelty to some, but it helps users to interact with with whatever is on the HoloFlex’s screen.

Could flexible smartphones be bending their way into the hands of users soon? 

Read more here:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11604680/holoflex-flexible-holographic-smartphone

SEeing things

The development of mobile technologies is all about thinking big. These big ideas can potentially have a big impact on the masses. But a new product from Apple has the company thinking small.