TRANSPARENT PHONE...

• A Taiwanese company claims to have developed a gen-next transparent mobile phone which it says will be in the market by the year end.

• The company  has already begun marketing a transparent multi-touch phone. Its prototype uses a "Switchable Glass" technology.

• That is a conductive Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) using liquid crystal molecules to display images, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

  
• When the phone is in off mode, the molecules align to form a milky composition, but when switched on they re-align to form text, icons, and other images.

• Electric current is carried through transparent wires.

• The device still contains some parts that are not transparent, including a SD card and SIM card. The microphone, camera, and batteries are also visible, and will be hidden behind a dark glass cover when the model goes into production.