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The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone - Fabian Hemmert

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Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually, offering a delightfully intuitive way to communicate. (Filmed at TEDxBerlin.)

Humans are sensitive to an object's weight. In the weight-shifting mobile phone, how does the weight move around the device?

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