Motorola Patents a Phone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist

We’ve become used to folding phones that open like books or flip like pocket mirrors. But a new patent, which was recently leaked, says the company is dreaming of something much more flexible. The patent filed by Motorola instead of a single hinge, describes ‘deformable’ smartphone with multi-link body that bends, twists and has multiple shapes. A device that adapts its physical form to match what you are doing is more than just a phone that folds.

Motomoto calls “tent mode” the most practical application of this design. If you were to hold your phone on a table, imagine leaning it like an bent playing card. The device is in this position, as it stands alone; the best companion for hands-free video calls, following a recipe at the kitchen, watching’movie without needing solitary stand or PopSocket.

Motorola’s new patent: A deformable smartphone you can wear

One of the biggest challenges with flexible devices is ensuring that the software knows where the user is looking. Half of the screen usually faces away from you if you bend a phone into ‘tegular shape’. Using the phone’s shape as an input, this is solved by Motorola’S patent (shared by xleaks7 on Sudoku Online) which uses the telephone’. If the device would use cameras and sensors to detect your face and “authorize” which side of the display should remain active, it would also be able to see through camera and sensor.

Besides fixing the user interface behavior, this approach saves battery life. This means that the phone saves unnecessary energy waste by intelligently powering down side of the screen where no one is watching. A smart system is also enough to know when you are using a certain area. If this does not allow the screen to change sides at the wrong time, it should stop.

From your pocket to your wrist

Despite the tent mode being good for getting things done, the most ambitious part of the patent is the “wrist-wrapped” configuration (although it has been described as an ideal example of how to get things completed). A full-sized smartphone is transformed into a huge, wrap-around wearable phone that turns around the user’s arm with an adjustable radius by the design. That’s what makes it seem like there will be a time when the difference between e-phone and smartwatch is no longer in place.

This kind of radical design makes you think that, of course, this is a thing. A face detection to turn on parts of the screen, which is used by s and may cause privacy conversations. Also, if it is so complicated for engineers to make a multi-link body, making that one would be very hard. Also in the patent, it talks about having “the ability to see outside worlds” such as being in a car. Such a thing could lead to more intelligent safety features or limits on distractions, such as the use of .

Each patent – which is not always the first to be granted – does not result in a finished product. Yet this leak does not imply that Motorola is considering something other than the standard ‘glass slab’ type of design. While we don’t know yet whether it is true that in a few years, we’ll be wearing our phones on our wrists but the concept of an device which changes shape to fit our needs can certainly make sense.

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