Last November, LG surprised South Korean television viewers with an ad for a digitally-rendered “Drone Phone” that was shown to fly around and take photos from the air. Commentators interpreted the video as little more than a clever marketing stunt, but based on one of the company’s latest patent filings, its interest in the drone…
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Samsung has a new vision for bendable touch devices
In 2011, Samsung captured consumers’ imagination with an experimental screen that could be bent at will without hurting the display quality. Six years and hundreds of patent applications later, the South Korean mobile giant has reportedly reached a point where it’s all but ready to bring the technology to market. The question that now occupies…
Qualcomm has designed a touch sensor for holographic phones
One of the best measures of a trend’s progress in the consumer electronics world is the reaction of the component suppliers. If the suppliers start taking concrete steps towards addressing it, then they anticipate demand from their manufacturing clients, who in turn must be anticipating demand from consumers. That’s why it’s such an encouraging sign that…
LG is taking holograms mobile
The race is now officially on in South Korea to create the world’s first holographic smartphone.
IBM is bringing the corporate world’s unbreakable encryption to your phone
IBM wants to use your phone’s accelerometer to match the the specialized encryption hardware used by the world’s largest organization.
Samsung’s future phone covers will irradiate your screen to clear germs
A light-activated titanium dioxide sanitization layer destroys any organic material on the screen.
Patent filling reveals the Samsung Galaxy S7 iris scanner
A new patent filling reveals that the Galaxy S7’s iris scanner will have not one but two separate biometric cameras to maximize accuracy
Samsung has averted the mobile industry’s indium shortage crisis
The mobile giant’s engineers have created new alloy that can substitute the rapidly dwindling metal in the specialized electrodes that power touchscreens.
Samsung’s smart TVs will intelligently zoom when you squint
A new set of specifications that surfaced on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s online database last week reveals that Samsung is taking another shot at applying eye-tracking technology to TVs after its failed attempt to develop a gaze-aware remote, and on a much grander scale. If its efforts bear fruit this time, watching video could get a lot…
Northwestern University has developed a way to plug privacy holes in Android apps once and for all
Consumers may not have to endure through the game of whack-a-mole that the mobile industry has been playing with security exploits on Android for much longer if this latest project from Northwestern University bears fruit.
Remember the “tall iPhone” parody? Samsung is applying for the rights to make it in real life
The Apple rival is exploring novel ways of using its flexible display technology to increase the available screen real-estate on phones without compromising on formfactor. Or at least not too much.
This smart slap bracelet can turn into a phone (or a backscratcher, depending how you look at it)
The South Korean research institution that invented 4G LTE has come up with a smart slap bracelet that can curve around your wrist or turn into a phone. Oh, and it’s a stylus, too.
Sony’s latest mobile design is a mesh between a smartphone and smart glasses
If not being able to use the touchscreen while talking over the phone seems like an inconvenience, this hybrid between a smartphone and smart glasses that Sony is trying to patent may just the model for you.
LG thinks the future of mobile cameras is detachable
LG is moving to patent a detachable mobile camera that will be able to transmit – and display – video over Bluetooth from up to 32 feet. Goodbye GoPros, nanny cams and (dare we hope?) selfie sticks.