Science fiction has always laid a great groundwork for reality—from Jules Verne to Star Trek—and on YouTube, a design studio has created a concept video of a futuristic iPhone that has garnered more than 15 million views.
Aatma Studio is the 3D animation and digital content studio that created the high-quality video, which shows a thinner iPhone with the ability to display holograms of usable keyboards, images, and videos.
Unless Apple wows the masses with something like this in its upcoming iPhone 4S/5 release, which is expected within weeks, something like this will stay within the realm of possibilities. Although, the possibilities in the mobile health world could be staggering.
Doctors and other healthcare educators would have a wonderful tool to show patients videos, charts, images, etc., without the need of other expensive peripherals like TVs and computer monitors. Tablet computers are ushering in this mobile education concept, but something like this could significantly cut down on the need of extra hardware.
In addition, the holographic displays could cut down on the number of gadgets and surfaces that could compromise infection control, most notably physical keyboards, which have been shown to bedirtier than toilet bowls.
This type of Star Trekian technology could still be years away, but it’s always fun to thin about its future applications. Clearly, if Aatma is thinking of this, the companies behind the technologies could be thinking about it too.
