Nokia HumanForm Smartphone Concept Video Shows Bendy, Twisty Future

Nokia just recently shared a physical prototype of a smartphone that was operated by twisting and bending; now they've followed up with a new concept video about something called the Nokia HumanForm, "a visionary solution beyond touchscreen and voice communication where technology becomes invisible and intuition takes over."

The phone being controlled by twisting and bending is familiar from the Kinetic Device; this time around, however, Nokia has added a transparent display, some Wiimote control gestures and a lot of buttons where you wouldn't expect there to be buttons. Cool stuff.

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For whatever reason, the future concept videos have been coming fast and furious over the past month. Days after showing off its conceptual 3D HoloDesk, Microsoft released its vision of its future products in October; BlackBerry did the same not long afterwards. This newest video from Nokia comes after showing off its concept Kinetic Device at the Nokia World Conference in late October; the Finnish company has never been shy about speculating what the future might look like, as a trail of futuristic videos from the Nokia Research Center suggests.

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[LeftFoLyfe]

02:20 PM on 11/17/2011

Hey, why don't you work on the battery life of smart phones next?

[someguy101]

12:08 AM on 11/16/2011

so i can feel boobs on this phone? awesome!!!

[Blodo]

03:19 PM on 11/15/2011

Have they made one yet where you access functions by bouncing it off the ceiling and letting your cat chew it?

This whole concept falls under the heading of "because we can." Good luck with that.

[bl8ant]

09:48 AM on 11/13/2011

How embarrassing, it appears Nokia has found its mom's vibrator.

[Charlotte Bonnie]

07:38 AM on 11/13/2011

I don't like this concept at all. It is kind of good looking but with a weird shape and it doesn't look functional at all. I don't like all the turning and the shaking to access menus and it would be terribly hard to browse the internet, play games or create documents. If they tried to achieve superior usability they failed horribly. Usability is about making things more functional, easier to understand and use while appealing to emotions but this concept only has the "emotions" part taken care of and frustration is not the kind of emotion you would want to have when using a phone.

[LeadTheWay]

11:40 PM on 11/12/2011

Creative idea, but god I would hate it to control my phone by gestures and bending and manipulating the shape..... First questions I would have is what about the SIM Card? Is there a camera? will there be a specific SIM card you will need so it won't snap inside the phone?

Creative idea, but impractical.

[tooncesrocks]

10:54 PM on 11/12/2011

looks cool but won't fit in my pocket with that elongated shape... so no thanks

[wilray]

02:44 PM on 11/17/2011

Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me ... really happy to see me?

[PotholesInMyLawn]

09:12 PM on 11/12/2011

Is it absorbent for you know... those heavy days?

[frank day]

05:20 PM on 11/12/2011

Interesting concept.

It's the little changes in tech that over time make our life so much different.

[BlueMoon5709]

04:35 PM on 11/12/2011

Hahahahahaha....humorous article hahahahaha :)))) A phone leaf lol...a phone that disintegrates after two years ROTF :))))

[BlueMoon5709]

04:25 PM on 11/12/2011

F.A.K.E.

[BlueMoon5709]

04:28 PM on 11/12/2011

The shape horrendous. It works for a remote control but for a phone. F.A.K.E. ..very creative and imaginative though.

[stopgeorge]

06:11 PM on 11/12/2011

It would be very creative and imaginative if this were a paintbrush. But it is a tool we're talking about here. As such, a design must adhere to functional and form-factor reality. These ideas do not.

[calilife4me]

04:47 AM on 11/12/2011

That Nokia phone is NICE!!!! Remember, it's a concept people.

[stopgeorge]

03:49 PM on 11/12/2011

Yeah. A really bad concept.

[frank day]

04:51 PM on 11/12/2011

Feeling tro11y this afternoon?

[calilife4me]

12:36 AM on 11/13/2011

What's so bad about it?

[Aaron Kirchmann]

03:53 PM on 11/11/2011

And to think, when I was born, touch tone was all the new rage in telephones. Wow, Im old.

[deluxebrand]

03:40 PM on 11/11/2011

lame... who want to bend and twist when you can tap...

[stopgeorge]

02:40 PM on 11/11/2011

Absolutely no constructive thought was put into this concept phone by Nokia.

Just because it "looks" cool doesn't make it "useable".

FAIL.