"Father of Mobile phones" Cooper: in the future, mobile phones can be implanted into the skin and recharged by the body.

Beijing, March 1 (Xinhua)-- the "father of mobile phones", Marty Cooper, said in an interview at the World Mobile Communications Congress (MWC) on Monday that mobile phones will one day become a device that integrates with human skin, rather than the black rectangular tablet that people are used to.

Cooper made his first phone call on April 3, 1973. Cooper invented the first mobile phone in 1973. This week, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award on MWC to mark the 50th anniversary of his first phone call on sixth Avenue. Cooper said he never thought mobile phones would become today's portable computers. "50 years ago was a very primitive era," he said. "there was no Internet, no large-scale integrated circuits, no digital cameras."

"the next generation will implant phones under the skin of their ears," he said in an interview on MWC on Monday. "such devices don't need to be recharged, because your body is the perfect charger. When you eat, your body generates energy, right? when you eat, your body generates energy. It only takes a little energy to run this headset." His vision suggests that mankind may come to a stage in the future, when the human body will be enhanced by powerful microchips and sensors. Several startups are developing technologies that combine computers with the human brain, such as Neuralink, the brain-computer interface company of Elon Musk.

Cooper points out that today's smartphones have become too complex, there are too many apps, and the screen is not suitable for facial curvature. "whenever I make a phone call without headphones, I have to stick this flat material on my curved face and raise my arm in an awkward position." He said.