LinkNotes: Motorola

2008-02-17

A mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell

Angstrom Power, a Canadian developer of fuel cells has announced a prototype which has already been integrated into a popular Motorola handset.

clipped from www.textually.org

Hydrogen-powered phone prototype

"Fuel cell maker Angstrom Power and cell phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell. Crave reports.

clipped from www.inhabitat.com

There are still hurdles that need to be solved. For one, hydrogen refueling stations aren’t even close to being available in most places in the world. And then there is the issue of safety, though the company claims that the battery is perfectly safe. There is real interest by the major manufacturers, and if all goes well, expect to see them by 2010.

Bush looks like he’s plotting something nefarious with this hydrogen cell phone

clipped from www.financialpost.com

Angstrom has thought out some answers: it's designing a home-based unit that lets a user pour in water and watch the phone automatically recharge. And it has ambitions to install recharging kiosks at places like Starbucks or 7/11.

2008-01-26

Motorola -- Rollable Phone

A recently published patent filing by Motorola describes a cellphone technology that could allow the display to fold or roll away. This will allow in future the design of smaller and still usable phones.

clipped from www.unwiredview.com

Foldable/ rollable phone from Motorola

The design of the mobile phones is always a fight between two opposite objectives - portability and usability. The more small and portable the device becomes, the less usable the user interface can be.

Well. Motorola has an interesting idea what to do about that. In a patent application “User Interface System” it describes a concept of mobile phone with rollable display and/or keyboard.

clipped from appft1.uspto.gov

Abstract

A user interface system (102) for a portable electronic device (100) is disclosed. The user interface system includes an interface (202) that is made of a flexible material and has an active position and an inactive position. The interface is coupled with a reservoir (204). The reservoir is used for storing electrorheological fluid (206). The user interface system also includes a source (208) that is coupled to the reservoir. The source is used for applying an electric field to the electrorheological fluid when the interface is in the active position.

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