Venture Beat reviews some envisioneering projects from Nokia Research Labs in Palo Alto, California. They include a bunch of next-generation technologies that are genuinely innovative, including phones that can tell us what we’re looking at and devices that morph their forms from watch to tablet to phone as needed.
Henry Tirri, senior vice president and head of Nokia Research, said, “We’re talking about going way beyond just replicating a computer on a phone,” he said. “We want to provide the user with the right context that they need at the time when they need it. This is the evolution of computing.”
Nokia’s Point and Find project (above) will let you point your camera phone at a building, and it will fetch you information about it. The technology comes from Pixto, a company that Nokia bought in 2007.
Nokia’s most futuristic project is Morph (above), which envisions a day when nanomaterials will be able to refashion themselves. With materials like that, you can build a watch that could change itself into a phone or a tablet computer at a user’s whim.
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