As innovative as they come, the basic design of the mobile handset hasn’t changed much since their release on the common market in the early 80s. They’ve always generally been rectangular in shape with buttons for dialling, an earpiece for listening and a mouthpiece for talking. Slowly but surely things are starting to change in terms of technology, but even with the most high-tech touchscreens, take it back to basics in terms of ergonomic design and there’s your old school rectangle.

Nokia Research Center has teamed up with the University of Cambridge to do away with the boring brick style and find out new and exciting ways of really taking the (more…)