In this day and age, it seems almost everyone has done away with the humble clamshell phone and has opted to buy themselves a swanky touchscreen smartphone.

Although it looks like the clamshell phone has mostly lessened in popularity over the years, it still holds strong with the Japanese population.

This is probably why the Japanese company Sharp has come up with this Aquos Phone Hybrid 007SH that unites the smartphone with the clamshell design.

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As our technology advances, the size of our gadgets seem to have decreased, and the same can be said for our mobile devices too. As much as everyone loves wants their tablets and mobile phone displays to be large, there is sometimes still the issue of portability.

Here’s some very promising research from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea that has realised the potential future of our displays by making this prototype of a seamless foldable display.

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Mobile phones today are multitasking machines that we all know and love, but let’s take it to another, more flexible level. In this case, it’s literal with the Flexible PaperPhone, the world’s first of its kind.

Developed by a team of researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, they believe that this new communication device will make the current smartphone obsolete within 5 to 10 years.

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Time for a little architectual geekery this week, with the world’s first proper zombie-proof house.

Anyone who’s ever watched a decent zombie movie (28 Days Later, anyone?) or played one of those nightmare-inducing zombie games (say, Left 4 Dead), will want this zombie-proof house as their humble abode.

Designers KWK Promes has dubbed the design “The Safe House”, and true to its name, it does seem to be as impenetrable as it sounds. Both to the members of the undead who are out to eat you and also to the living, it seems.

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Technology today is speeding along at a speed at which is almost incomprehensible. Yesterday’s science fiction may very well become today’s science fact. Though are some facts stranger than fiction? It certainly must be true as we are now able to mass-produce human skin at a low cost for clinical testing and other uses.

The great minds behind this skin producing factory is Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Stuttgart, Germany. The factory was just in its infancy merely two years ago, and now it has come online, producing 5,000 penny-sized discs of milky translucent tissue every month.

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