Saturday, March 19, 2011

Human-shaped mobile phone

Developed by Japanese researchers, then Elfoid is a human-shaped mobile phone with a skin-like outer layer that enables users to feel closer to those on the other end.



It even wiggles and talks to you in the voice of the person of the other end. According to Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), this new cell phone model is ‘revolutionary’ because it can feel like the person to whom you are talking! The project is collaboration between Osaka University, the mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo and other institutes.





They hope to put it into commercial production within five years by adding image and voice recognition functions.


The prototype, slightly bigger than the size of a palm, features an outer coating that feels like human skin.


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