Father of Cellphones Predicts Implanting Smartphones in Ears as Perfect Charger

According to Marty Cooper, the inventor of the first cellphone and often referred to as the "father of cellphones," smartphones may one day be implanted under the skin of consumers' ears. This innovative idea is based on the fact that the human body can be the perfect charger for such devices as it can generate energy from the food we eat. Speaking to CNBC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cooper expressed his belief in the ability of technology to improve healthcare and education, despite concerns such as addiction to social media and privacy issues that have arisen due to the widespread use of smartphones.

Cooper also discussed the evolution of the modern smartphone, pointing out that it has become overly complex with numerous applications and a screen that doesn't fit the natural curvature of the human face.

Looking back on history, Cooper made the first-ever public call from a handheld portable telephone on April 3, 1973, using a prototype that he and his Motorola team had developed in just five months. The call was made to his competitor at Bell Laboratories using the first brick phone, the Dyna-TAC, which weighed 2.5 pounds and was 11 inches in length. Cooper continued to work on creating a commercial version of the gadget over the following decade.

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