The Kyocera Proteus

The Kyocera Proteus 

Wearable Collapsible Smartphone 

  As Kyocera continues to Innovate and create great advancements in Solar technology and indestructible mobile advancements such as the famed Sapphire Glass™, many pieces of great technology are discovered along the way.

  With flexible AMOLED displays offering a lower voltage solution to LED, their flexible nature can provide many uses.  The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge has already displayed a clever use for this with it's access bar on the rounded edge using a flexible AMOLED display.

Kyocera has displayed their most recent beta designs for testing at CEATEC (The CEATEC name stands for Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies and is Japan’s largest consumer electronics show) and the flexibility is quite remarkable.

  The Kyocera Proteus can be said to be inspired by the Lenovo Yoga series of hybrid Ultrabooks – being able to bend its display in four different methods to cater to different times and places where the Yoga is used, hence its naming convention that depicts the flexibility of it all.

  As for the Kyocera Proteus, you can hold it in your palm in the same manner as that of a smartphone when you are using its smartphone function, or there is also the option of wrapping it around your wrist like a bangle, and that would then kick in its vital sensors located behind the display which will deliver biological information including your heart rate, how fast you are walking or running, as well as number of steps taken – all in an effort to help you achieve your fitness goals.

  Not only that, you can “drape” it over a thin rail, where this is known as the Clip Style – making it ideal for those who are traveling on a bicycle. It would be interesting to know what kind of battery the Kyocera Proteus would make use considering the flexibility of the device – would it use segmented batteries so that it can even be rolled into a bangle? Only time will tell.

Information provided in part by Edwin Knee of Ubergizmo.com