Ideas change everything

The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone

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Fabian Hemmert |

TEDxBerlin

• February 2010

In this short, amazing demo, Fabian Hemmert imagines one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually. It's a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.

In this short, amazing demo, Fabian Hemmert imagines one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually. It's a delightfully intuitive way to communicate.

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Fabian Hemmert is a design professor, driven by the belief that we shouldn't sacrifice our humanness for the sake of technology.

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