Monday, June 16, 2008

Ori-ori-Moshi-moshi


If you were to get your hands on a Flux Capacitor and traveled to the year 2014, Marty McFly style, you might see some gadgets that will blow your mind. The Ori-ori-Moshi-moshi device (that name might be hell on its marketing) is a conceptual multimedia device made of a semi-flexible OLED display, which uses an origami-like form factor for pure awesomeness.

Just like many dream gadgets from the future, the Ori-ori-Moshi-moshi from AntennaDesign consolidates about every electronic function under the sun into one compact and pretty device. You name it, it can do it. You can use it as a phone, a gaming device, a media player, a camera, and photo editor. The OLED display can be folded in an assortment of ways to adapt to its present use.

Remember that pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic, the one that showed us that the Internet of the future is accessed via virtual reality and is some weird origami interface. I believe this film was supposed to take place in 1995, and that vision never came to pass.

This could be the case for the Ori Ori Mochi Mochi, a mobile device designed by Antenna design. It is predicted to be the iPhone of 2014, and it is a device that relies on folding at certain angles. For example, a rectangle is a cell phone, and all folded out for a map.

Memo to me: Follow up on this story in 2014. Perhaps I'll be writing that follow-up on an Ori Ori Mochi Mochi.

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