Kyocera's Flexible, Kinetic-Powered Smart Phone

Wow, check this thing out. I totally want one. It's a new concept cell phone design from Kyocera called an EOS phone. It's flexible, has a large OLED display, and is powered by kinetic energy.

That's right. As you move it around, press the keys, etc. the phone generates its own power. How sweet is that?

To talk on it, you leave the phone folded up like a little wallet. Unfolding it reveals a huge OLED screen and a QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is also flexible and has shape memory so that they pop up when you're using them, but melt back into the unit when you don't have the keypad active.

The phone is made from a soft, flexible, but semi-rigid polymer skin. The phone is embedded with small piezoelectric generators that create an electric charge when it's being manipulated or used. So the more you play with it, the more power it generates. Cool, eh?

Of course, this is a prototype phone in its early design phase, but it could one day be in your hand.

Awesome.