Imagine that one day, smartphones will learn to correct physical defects in their screens. You dropped your smartphone on the pavement, cracked screen and smartphone immediately identify where he suffered damage, and healed, “the wound”. Yes, like no cracks and was not at all. About this future imagine the engineers of Motorola, which recently patented a technology for the treatment of displays for mobile devices.
According to the patent, Motorola plans to use to create screens of smartphones special polymer with memory effect, which is able to heal itself with a slight increase in surface temperature. The smartphone is able to heat the surface of the screen to make the coating more elastic and tighten the cracks. The user just need to specify where across the screen is cracked. However, the technology should work with the heat of human body or from special external heater, which the company also indicated in the patent.
Sounds too good to be true, isn’t it? But, of course, while all this is just a patent, which does not mean that this technology will soon enter our lives. Motorola and Lenovo, which it belongs, can never use this recovery method displays in its future smartphones. But if it happens, will be very curious to hear the reaction of the owners of services on repair of electronics, which make the replacement of smartphone screens quite a lot of money.
Motorola has patented a self-healing screen for smartphones
Sergey Grey