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The mobile phone will be extinct in five years as people switch to wearing mobile computers, a professor predicted yesterday.
Professor Nigel Linge, of the University of Salford, says the future of telecommunications is "wearable technology".
He said the functions of the mobile phone will be dispersed into components which can be embedded within a person's clothing.
He explained: "In five years instead of mobile phones we will all carry mobile computers on us.
"So for example the communicator on our collar might send signals to the keyboard on our sleeve.
"Hands-free technology is very sophisticated at present and will continue to advance to the point where carrying a phone will be pointless.
"Already we are seeing simple everyday objects such as wheelie bins with in-built communication systems which can relay information via a computer."
Prof Linge, 45, added that phones were already effectively computers.
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