????我們和自己的智能手機(jī)早已親密無(wú)間，幾乎不加思索就會(huì)用手指在手機(jī)屏幕上點(diǎn)觸及滑動(dòng)?，F(xiàn)在，日本的一家手機(jī)制造商正在設(shè)法讓我們與智能手機(jī)的接觸更加親密，差不多通過(guò)擠壓、擠捏手機(jī)就能發(fā)出指令。

????日本最大的移動(dòng)運(yùn)營(yíng)商N(yùn)TT-DoCoMo最近在東京展示了一款手機(jī)，這款手機(jī)不僅可以對(duì)通常的屏幕觸摸做出反應(yīng)，而且還能對(duì)施加在手機(jī)邊緣的壓力做出反應(yīng)。他們稱之為Grip UI用戶界面。

????設(shè)計(jì)目的是便于用戶在用一只手的情況下（比如在地鐵上用一只手拉住車廂內(nèi)的柱子時(shí)）也能控制智能手機(jī)。這是一系列觸控式新興科技產(chǎn)品（甚至可彎曲的手機(jī)）中最新推出的功能，這些產(chǎn)品不久有望商業(yè)化，以此利用人們與生俱來(lái)的、在操縱有觸覺(jué)感知能力、而且反應(yīng)靈敏的物體方面的喜愛(ài)。迪斯尼研究（Disney）中心匹茲堡實(shí)驗(yàn)室的伊凡?普珀雷夫說(shuō):“壓力感知是手機(jī)行業(yè)里的一個(gè)非常令人感興趣的研究方向，因此這是很了不起的技術(shù)?！彼鞘澜缟嫌|覺(jué)學(xué)領(lǐng)域的主要研究人員之一。

????Docomo的這款基于安卓操作系統(tǒng)的手機(jī)周身鑲嵌了270個(gè)感應(yīng)條，從而使用戶光憑擠壓手機(jī)邊框就能完成至少四個(gè)有用的操作。比如，用一只手的所有五個(gè)手指緊握這款智能手機(jī)的兩側(cè)，就能使原先處于休眠模式的手機(jī)屏幕解鎖啟動(dòng)。用兩個(gè)手指在手機(jī)兩側(cè)的中間部位擠捏一下，就相當(dāng)于按下“后退”按鈕。這款手機(jī)在東京的日本電子高新科技聯(lián)展上首次亮相時(shí)，其一名展示者解釋說(shuō)：“對(duì)于那些你無(wú)法按壓的圖標(biāo)而言，可以轉(zhuǎn)而使用抓握的方式來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)控制?！?/p>

????Docomo不知道這款手機(jī)什么時(shí)候可能會(huì)投產(chǎn)。但像這款手機(jī)那樣柔韌的電子產(chǎn)品可能還具有其他有益的用途。普珀雷夫稱，通過(guò)指尖擠壓就能控制任何手持式電子產(chǎn)品，這還只是一個(gè)開(kāi)始。10年前，普珀雷夫曾與德國(guó)設(shè)計(jì)師卡斯滕?史維茨西及日本設(shè)計(jì)師森英次郎進(jìn)行過(guò)合作，嘗試為索尼（Sony）研制出世界上第一個(gè)可彎曲電子產(chǎn)品的原型。他們調(diào)查研究了俗稱“Gummi”（德文意思是橡膠）的獨(dú)特構(gòu)想。它是一款可彎曲、而且尺寸只有信用卡般大小的電子產(chǎn)品。

????要想點(diǎn)擊，只需雙手握住這款電子產(chǎn)品，讓它彎曲即可。這款產(chǎn)品成為世界各地有可能面市的可彎曲型手機(jī)的典范，比如去年首次露面的諾基亞（Nokia）Kinetic手機(jī)原型。這款諾基亞手機(jī)采用了由三星（Samsung）開(kāi)發(fā)的柔性有機(jī)發(fā)光顯示屏（OLED）技術(shù)。三星稱，這項(xiàng)技術(shù)將會(huì)在2013年年初引入市場(chǎng)。它的構(gòu)想是利用這些最近成功商業(yè)化的纖薄有機(jī)屏幕所固有的柔韌性。

????到目前為止，最先進(jìn)的柔性O(shè)LED屏幕非常纖?。ㄏ喈?dāng)于人類一根頭發(fā)的寬度），而且柔性非常強(qiáng)。這種彩色屏幕播放流媒體視頻的時(shí)候，甚至可以把屏幕繞在一支鉛筆上。

????未來(lái)的諸多應(yīng)用可能包括結(jié)合由英國(guó)公司Plastic Logic制造的可彎曲型電子產(chǎn)品。或者結(jié)合由加拿大皇后大學(xué)（Queen's University）人類媒體實(shí)驗(yàn)室（the Human Media Lab）的研究人員利用電子紙研制出的一款被稱為“紙手機(jī)”（paperphone）的可彎曲手機(jī)。相關(guān)研究人員表示，當(dāng)在這款“紙手機(jī)”的邊角或側(cè)邊處彎曲或折疊時(shí)，就能啟動(dòng)智能手機(jī)的各種不同功能。

????We are already pretty intimate with our smartphones, poking and swiping their screens almost without second thought. Now a Japanese phone maker is making the case we go a step further, literally squeezing and pinching them to do our bidding.

????The country's biggest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, showed off a mobile phone in Tokyo recently that responds not only to the usual screen touches but also to pressure applied at its edges. They call it Grip UI.

????The idea is to make controlling a smart phone easier with one hand, while, for example, hanging by one hand from a pole on the subway. It is the latest in a range of emerging technology haptic gadgets -- and even bendable phones -- that promise commercialization soon and that exploit our innate love of manipulating tactile, responsive objects. "Pressure sensitivity is a very interesting direction for phones so this is great technology," says Ivan Poupyrev one of the world'd leading researchers into haptics at Disney's (DIS) labs in Pittsburg.

????Docomo's Android-based mobile has 270 sensors embedded into the body of the phone allowing its user to execute at least four useful operations just by squeezing the bezel. Gripping the side of the smart phone with all five fingers will unlock the screen from sleep mode, for example. While pinching the sides at the middle with two fingers is equivalent to pressing the 'back' button. "For the icons you can't press, you can grip instead," explains a demonstrator at the phone's first outing at a Tokyo trade show.

????Docomo doesn't know when the phone might go into production. But malleable gadgets, like this one, could have other useful applications. Being able to control any hand-held with a squeeze of the fingertips is just a start says Poupyrev who teamed up with a German designer Carsten Schwesig and Japanese designer Eijiro Mori, to build one of the world's first prototype flexible electronic devices for Sony (SNE) a decade ago. They were investigating the unique concept of a bendable credit-card-sized device nicknamed Gummi.

????To make a click you just grasped it with two hands and bent it. It became the model worldwide for potential flexible phones such as Nokia's (NOK) "Kinetic" prototype that debuted last year. The Nokia phone uses flexible organic light-emitting display (OLED) technology developed by Samsung -- a technology it says it will bring to market early 2013. The idea is exploit the flexibility inherent in these recently commercialized thin, organic screens.

????So far the most advanced flexible OLED screens are so thin, about the width of a human hair, and so flexible the color display can be rolled around a pencil while streaming video.

????Future applications might include combining bendable electronics as manufactured by British firm Plastic Logic or a flexing phone made from electronic paper created by Canadian researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University dubbed paperphone. When bent or folded at its corners or sides the differing functions of a smartphone are brought to light say the researchers.