The negative publicity that resulted from YouTuber, Lewis Hilsenteger, from the channel "Unbox Therapy" (huge fan by the way, Lou) has resulted in an onslaught of questions concerning the build quality of the new iPhone 6 Plus. This has even resulted in a company selling pre-bent iPhone 6 cases to compliment your new bent phone. However, this scandal obviously gave somebody at Apple an idea to make a bendable phone into a "feature" rather than a flaw. Jokes aside, this patent was actually filed before the revelation of weak iPhone structures, but was just awarded on October 7th, 2014.
The patent, #8,855,727, covers a feature to use a bending screen as an input method to trigger user commands. Examples of this could be bending the top right corner of your phone to call your mom,while bending your phone down the middle might launch your favorite game to play. Maybe there will be a certain combination of ways to bend your phone in order to unlock it. Flexbile displays are not an unheard of concept, but having functionality result from bending the screen in a specific way is.
Personally, this seems like a dead-end for any future smart phones, but Apple has surprised me in the past. I'm holding off on the iPhone 6 in-part due to the questionable build quality, but maybe a bendable phone will be a luxury in the future rather than an issue.
