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Remember pop-up selfie cameras? 📱🤯 For a short time, they looked like the future of smartphones. Instead of having a notch or punch-hole cutting into the display, the selfie camera would physically rise out of the phone whenever you opened the front camera. It looked futuristic. No notch. No hole. Just a huge, uninterrupted screen. 🔥 Phones like the OnePlus 7 Pro, Vivo NEX and Xiaomi Mi 9T made the concept incredibly popular. But there was one major problem: Moving parts. Every time you took a selfie, a tiny motor had to lift the camera module. Then lower it again. And repeat that process hundreds or thousands of times. That added mechanical complexity to something that was supposed to be a simple, durable device. There was also the durability problem. A normal smartphone camera is protected inside the body. A pop-up camera physically sticks out of the phone, making it more vulnerable to drops, dust and accidental damage. And because the mechanism needed space, it a...

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