A Transparent Cell Phone

There is no other electronic device which gets obsolete almost as fast as it is manufactured than the cell phone. With technological innovations coming up through repeated scientific experimentation in research and development there is a new version to each cell phone almost every six months.

So it should come as no surprise that there is yet another innovation in the works in Taiwan. They have been working on the prototype of a transparent cell phone. Nicknamed the ‘Switchable Glass’ technology, the phone has a conductive OLED screen that uses liquid crystal molecules to display text and images.

Electric current is used to align these molecules into images on  a transparent screen that can display clear colored images. It is likely that a finished product will be able to have touch screen activated on both sides of the phone. They are looking at ways to integrate hidden speakers and mics in the phone as well as developing a transparent battery.

Although it sounds really futuristic, the technology exits and a commercial product may be developed using the technology within a year. There are going to be a lot of engineers working on this science project in the current year.