Working Imaginary Phone (Video)

You’re doing dishes and at the climatic momment when your hands are soaked to the bone and covered in food waste and suds, the phone starts ringing. It’s that job you’ve been inquiring about, and you’re about to let that opportunity wash down the drain. The imaginary phone wants to help you out. The people at the Hasso Plattner Institute at Potsdam University in Germany have created a way to use your palm as a means to operate your phone. They refer to this as using imaginary devices, and have plenty of ideas on how to implement it.

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iPhone iWallet

The iPhone iWallet becomes even more real today as Visa Europe launches the first commercial deployment of its own iPhone payments App today. This news as NFC-capable iPhones should show later this year, with AAPL apparently pondering ways to offer merchants cheap and easy set-up for payment kiosks because mobile payments are nothing without the infrastructure to accept them.

Retailers, businesses and consumers have traditionally resisted the use of payment cards for low value transactions. Consumers think cards are slower than cash while retailers are put off by the cost of processing low value card transactions.

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Triple Flip Smartphone Concept By Dave Schultze (video)

The Triple Flip is an attempt to make smartphones more useful than they already are. Claiming to be the first of its design ever to feature Windows Phone 7 OS, the phone has much more to offer than just that. Solar recharging, flip-out & sliding keyboards and other refinements make this a cool concept. What’s left to be seen is its acceptance by the general public.

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Unliquited Concept Phone By Daniele Silvestri

Designer Daniele Silvestri’s Unliquited concept phone is an innovative, eco-friendly smartphone designed for Samsung. The phone mixes a rail-thin look with green design to create a smartphone unlike any other.

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Kyocera Kinetic Phone

Battery lives are important- they determine how much playtime and usage the user gets. But how about a phone that never drains out? Meet every environmentalists dream- the Kyocera Kinetic Phone. By harnessing the kinetic energy produced by the user typing or navigating the large screen, the phone’s battery is able to last theoretically for ever. In fact the the only way to charge the phone is to use it.

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