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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Nokia sees future for touch screens, move sensors

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    Nokia Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanpera shows a Nokia mobile phone to the media during a news conference titled ''Korean-made vs. Nokia-made'' at the Seoul Digital Forum 2007 in Seoul in this file photo from May 29, 2007. ''Optical sensors and touch will be the next big things,'' Ojanpera said in Singapore on Monday ahead of the CommunicAsia telecom fair. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Optical sensors and touch screens are the leading technologies that cell phone makers are likely to use as improvements to the tiny keypads on many of today's handsets.

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    "Optical sensors and touch will be the next big things," Nokia Chief Technology Officer Tero Ojanpera said in Singapore on Monday ahead of the CommunicAsia telecom fair.

    Touch screens enable cell phone makers to hide numeric keypads, while optical sensors pick up movement of the phone. For example, shaking a phone could initiate a call to your loved one, or turning it around would open an Internet connection.

    "I believe there will be a lot of innovation around these," Ojanpera said.

    Nokia has used touch screens on its niche products for years, but LG Electronics' (066570.KS) Prada and Apple's (AAPL.O) forthcoming iPhone are set to introduce touch screens to wider audiences. Also Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) (2498.TW) is set to roll out its Touch phone this month in Asia and Europe.
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