FUTURE CELL PHONE INNOVATIONS

1)SUPER FAST CHARGE:

Thanks to insufferably smart MIT people who have been playing with lithium-ion technology, charge time in the future is likely going to be reduced to mere seconds. No kidding.

Apparently we’re living in the lithium-ion stone age right now, as current charging involves moving around those actual lithium ions like they’re elderly mall walkers. You can’t rush that, it just won’t work. But with some tinkering, the plan is to put super speedways inside the batteries that allow the ions to fly to where they need to be at high speeds. As an added bonus, the change in technology will significantly cut back on the recharge wear and tear that causes batteries to crap out over time.

Best of all, the technology isn’t really space age and new, it’s just a modification on existing technology, meaning they’re expecting it to be available fairly soon – like within the next couple of years.

2)MORPHING

If battery life and charging is the biggest problem your cell phone faces today, the second biggest problem, at least for those of us who tend to break things a lot, is, you know, breaking it. Phones are tough, but every so often you accidentally drop one on the floor, or your dog tries to eat it, or someone sits on it while it’s open and then you’ve got some decorative, high-priced garbage sitting around.

The future is looking bright for the unsteady of hand, however, with some concept phones like the NEC tag phone from a couple of years back. Made of a rubber-like “shape memorizing” material, the tag is kind of like those view screens they pull out on sci-fi shows all the time now – it’s bendy, flexible technology. If you want to roll it up in a ball, you’re perfectly alright to do so. If you want to fold it and put it in your pocket like a wallet, that’ll work too.

Nokia is working on nanotechnology products to create the Morph phone – phones which can be disguised as just about anything, twisted and bent into different shapes, make use of nearly invisible technology so you can actually see through them, self-cleaning materials and solar technology.

3)BOARDING PASS

Sure, most of us enjoy any extra hassles we can go through at airports, because flying is generally far too pleasant an experience these days. Still, some people are actually trying to make it even more convenient

Continental was the first airline to try out the entirely electronic boarding system, sending boarding passes to phones complete with a 2-D barcode that can be scanned to allow passengers on planes. The advantages here are that you don’t have to worry about printing your own boarding pass, losing your boarding pass and odds are if you forget everything, you’ll still have your phone so you won’t miss your flight. And the bar codes on cell phones are harder to forge than one dimensional bar codes on paper passes, so it sticks it to counterfeiters.

An added bonus to the paperless method is the ease with which the airlines can stop ruining your life. If the flight is overbooked, that can be worked out without you wasting time. If they have no more kosher meals, if you want to upgrade your seating or if they only have diet Tab cola, you can get in touch with one another with ease.