Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It 101
Mike writes "Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone with a flexible OLED display that can be folded up like a wallet. Dubbed the EOS phone, the display unfolds to reveal a wide screen, and shape memory allows the phone's keys to pop up when in use and blend in with the surface during downtime. Best of all, the phone's soft, semi-rigid polymer skin is embedded with an array of tiny piezoelectric generators — the more you use the phone, the more it charges!" So far, it's just a design idea — but a cool one.
Charges as your flex it? (Score:1, Funny)
What?
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meh.. not iphone... (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing beats iphone.
Can we move on now, please?
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I'll hold off on this until Steve tells me I need one.
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After reading the title, I had assumed that it "charges" your account every time you flip it open.
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Are you charging the flexible cell phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
I've solved the energy crisis, (Score:5, Funny)
"...semi-rigid polymer skin is embedded with an array of tiny piezoelectric generators"
Can you imagine condoms made of this stuff? The porn industry alone could power half of California. Energy crisis solved.
Cue Trojan, Inc. patent in 3..2...1
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I think you'd have a hard time (no pun intended) finding a man or a woman (present company excluded) who agrees that sex is more pleasurable with a condom than without.
I also don't need to be married in order to have confidence enough with my partner to engage in unprotected sex. At the same time being married doesn't automatically eliminate the the risk of catching sexually communicated diseases from a partner. Marriage is neither a guarantee of health or fidelity.
Outrageous bigotry notwithstanding, sugge
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I love condoms. Then again I'm a rubber fetishist.
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We're straying pretty far off topic here, I think, but...
Background: I've been married for a little more than five years. My wife is fixed. I have never, ever, had sex with this woman with any sort of protection. And I've never had anyone better.
That said, I was at Wal-Mart the other day, and I happened upon the condom section. I began reminiscing about how much fun it used to be to try out different condoms on different people.
I've thought about it a lot since then. It turns out that I really enjoy f
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If your so stupid that a condom is such a hard-core turn off then you need to be chemically castrated to prevent the stupidity from spreading! On the off chance that you are smart and this is simply a laps in good judgment you need to find a hotter lay than the one you have and if your married well I guess it's a moot point either way.
#1: A condom is not a turn on. I was merely offering an alternative to rubbing a phone for electricity.
#2: I do just fine with the fine woman I have, thank you very much.
#3: If you're so damn uptight as to attempt to try and take my post seriously, then I have a feeling that you are indeed the one in need of a good lay.
Good day to you.
In the end, all is well... (Score:2)
PS: geekmux I wasn't responding like that to your post, your post was funny it's the Anonymous Coward that I was posting to.
Ah, understood. I do thank you for taking the time to clarify. I was sincerely hoping I didn't come across that desperate. ;-)
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God, I'm so sick of these companies with their Trojan patents...
Drop-resistence? (Score:5, Interesting)
Would a "floppy phone" be more resistant to drops? Clumsy minds want to know.
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Re:Drop-resistence? (Score:5, Funny)
Just show it an image of a mac, with its cover ope (Score:1, Informative)
Your floppy will be hard soon.
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How the heck did you get modded Informative?
Twice, no less!
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It's nice if it folds up... (Score:5, Funny)
...but if it can't withstand being in my back pocket with my fat arse sitting on it repeatedly, then what's the point.
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Is that how you carry your current cell phone?
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In pieces, I bet
Meh, it takes 3 seconds to type and submit 4 words and 30 seconds waiting for slashcode to stop spazzing out
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That's how I'd carry a wallet-phone, aye. :P
No they Didn't (Score:5, Insightful)
"Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone with a flexible OLED display that can be folded up like a wallet."
Uh, no.
They unveiled a concept.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
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I hear you're majoring in medicine.
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Fail.
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical. Science in the home.
Now my battery won't die... (Score:5, Funny)
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With the kinetic energy powering the device having my phone die during lengthy phone sex calls is a thing of the past! Yaaaay!
Yeah, but in order for it to charge you would have to use the friction / bending action from the phone being wrapped around your........ *ewww*
Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Umm... what?!?!?! (Score:1, Funny)
Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As Your Flex It
It charges as my flex it?
What the fsck does that mean? I don't have a "flex", and even if I did, it wouldn't "it" (whatever "it"ting is).
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If you don't have a FlexIt you should get one. It's shiny.
Meh (Score:2)
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Discuss...
Heat energy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Heat energy (Score:4, Funny)
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Candy bars!?!? I thought you were happy to see me!
His candy bar was all flaccid, squishy, and droopy from being in his pocket.
That doesn't sound all that happy to me.
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Why is it shown on the ground? (Score:2)
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Get out of my way, I need to get back to my workbench!
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Charges? Okay, but only if it's under $0.20/flex (Score:1, Funny)
it alreayd has a name (Score:2)
its called the VaporFon
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no no. the FapperFon was market tested and it was found that the FleshLiteFon was more positively received. the latest advances in 4G teledildonics
Can it really be charged that much?? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Assuming the best possible scenario, with 90% efficient piezoelectric conversion....
You'd have to stamp on it for hours to slightly charge a battery.
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The marketing department declared that the phone uses 3x less energy than what one engineering department reported, and the marketing department claimed that the flexing generates 3x more energy than what the other engineering department reported.
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Almost none. This is a non-story and BS news. The concept is stupid and completely unworkable. Even a tiny amount of analysis would show that the recovered energy is so minuscule as to be worthless.
But its a...Kyocera. (Score:3, Interesting)
When a REAL cellphone manufacturer starts to make one I'll be interested, as it stands if it's made by Kyocera I wouldnt even use it to wipe a cows ass.
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Back in the day they made some really great phones. I had a few Kyocera 6035s, and only stopped using them when Sprint refused to activate one for me (jerks). I had a 7135 (I think that is the model) which is what came after the 6035. Color screen, Palm OS 3.5, SD card slot, clamshell, it was awesome.
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Yeah, I know customer care was hit or miss. Now I walk into the employee store at the Overland Park headquarters and pretend like I work for Sprint and they take care of everything. :)
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Agreed, Kyocera made what was at the time, a major advancement, a flip phone, that was a full palm pilot, and could run whatever palm apps you could find to put on it.
I still miss my 7135, 4 years later, and have never seen another phone that rivals its features and reliability. I'm thinking of trying an iPhone soon, but even that isn't the same somehow, given the state of paid/signed apps.
Also when my third Motorola v710 gave up and I got sick of replacing them, I dug out my first phone, a Kyocera 2135, th
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Don't get an iphone. Seriously. An HTC Apache that is 4 years old is a better phone overall. And if you're posting on slashdot, you're smart enough to be able to play with the phone in ways it wasn't necessarily meant to be played with. For example, my Apache can run Android (though its ugly) and I can watch divx movies on it easily. I'm a huge open source fan, but in the ultimate twist, the Windows Mobile phones really are the most open devices out there.
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I agree, Kyocera's made some absolutely awesome stuff. The 6035 was big, but probably the single best-thought-out phone from a user perspective I've *ever* seen, and that definitely includes the vaunted iPhone! It was also rugged as a tank, and had a battery that lasted long enough that you didn't even need to take the charger with you unless you were going to be gone all week, and planned on talking a lot.
It looks like the new Pre may be the first thing we've seen in years that has as much thinking in it
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as it stands if it's made by Kyocera I wouldnt even use it to wipe a cows ass.
Although I do agree with your feelings on Kyocera phones, I do have to wonder what you would use to wipe a cow's ass. And if it was a good phone why would you wipe a cow's ass with it? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Re:But its a...Kyocera. (Score:5, Funny)
Well if I was going to wipe a cow's ass with a phone, a flexible phone would make the most sense.
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Maybe the ones they release here are crap (I don't know, never used one), but I've got no complaints with the Kyocera A5521K I had in Japan a couple years back.
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I dunno. I had a Kyocera, and it got reception in places no one else I knew could, it never froze up, unlike my current and past phones, and it was fairly durable. Except for when I dropped it and the case split a tiny bit on the seam, so the pinhole charger wouldn't stay in place properly. Lasted 3 years, all told, and would have been longer if I hadn't dropped it.
Slap bracelet phone? (Score:1)
The alternate universe 80s version of me would totally buy that. But then a competitor will start rumors about it slapping closed and lopping off someone's ear.
potential for flip phone version? (Score:1)
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That's how I was thinking of it. Of course you wouldn't want to run your phone off it completely, but it'd make a way to extend battery life, and if you were really in a bind, you'd be able to work up a really tiny bit of charge to make a quick call.
The fact that this wouldn't be integrated on to phones for years makes this kinda of a non-story though. =\
Sounds incredible! (Score:2)