Samsung, at the forefront of flexible display production, will have an actual bendable phone on the market by early next year. Would it have a stretchable battery, too? Frankly, we don't know just yet, but Samsung has cornered pretty much every shape and form you can do with a flexible phone display, while its latest patent application extends to exactly such a battery.

It depicts a shape-shifting unit consisting of a "pouch" that contains the necessary metal barrier and electrodes, all of which have "wavy" shapes with "peaks and valleys." All that amounts to... you guessed it... the ...