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During Pepcom’s MobileFocus outcome at this class’s Mobile River World United States Congress, I had a probability to checkout out a troupe called Pelikon. They shuffle an interesting keyboard/keypad faculty designed for use in mobile phones and similar devices (MIDs?). It’s called MorphTouch and it’s touted to “revolutionize the drug user experience by adapting to the way you wish to manipulation it.”
How it does that? It shows different keys depending on the diligence used, workings both like a regular physical keyboard and a touchpad. For instance, when you’re typewriting an email or some written document, you’ll see a regular QWERTY keyboard; when performing a biz, MorphTouch will convert into a gamepad. Similarly, carriers could programme the module with dedicated keys for accessing specific services — something that according to Pelikon could lead to increased ARPU.
Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) used something similar on its ROKR E8, which morphed numeric computer keyboard into a dedicated medicine playback keys when needed. Likewise, Samsung Alias2 had that e-ink keyboard that changes to numeric keys to burst the diligence used at any presumption consequence.
Hera’s how it works on a technical foul level:
Pelikon exploits Liquid Crystal and EL technologies to create SmartInk panels, which use an Polymer Dispersed Liquid Chrystal (PDLC) and encapsulated printed electroluminescent (EL) phosphor bed with various capacitive, detachment and conducting layers to create iconic and segmented lit areas.
Toshiba (OTCPK: TOSBF) has ace phone using MorphPad, though unfortunately that’s a Japan thing only. I would love to see MorphTouch integrated into some high gear-end smartphone, which would be available throughout the earth. Hopefully, Pelikon is lurch handset makers as we speak.
[Image from BBC]