Morphing Phone?

I’m doing some random surfing and I came across this new phone that Nokia is trying to develop.  Interesting.  It’s a morphing phone.  It’ll allow you to shift it from a standard cell phone shape to a wrist watch or whatever your mind desires.

The crazy thing is…it’s not even coming out this year…or any time soon at that.  Tapani Ryhanen, head of Nokia’s multimedia devices research, said the experiment is 11 years away from being complete.

“Our concept device is just to illustrate what this technology could mean, but most likely it is not exactly the device we will develop based on our work,” Ryhanen told Fortune.

I won’t be the first to buy one of these, as I’ll need all the kinks worked out of it, but I’ll more than likely get one.  The question is, will gas prices in the future stop me from buying them?