The first Android smartphone, T-Mobile G1 was last week’s star for sure, but how about the concept phones that should have been the Google Phones? Here’s a brand new one for you, designed by Eduardo Altamirano Segovia. The concept device is based on the interaction of the screen’s centerline with the user’s thumb.
If only mankind could restrict their urge to have more than what is necessary, our earth would have been a much greener planet than it is today. But in our quest to possess everything, we have pushed the green limits to a threatening extent. One of the contributing components to this threat is the cell phone. With tons of them being launched each day, an equivalent number of them are being discarded too…..generously adding on to the ever-growing piles of e-waste. To combat such grievous issue, take a look at Fernando Robert’s concept devised for Green Gadget Design Competition 2008. Dubbed as the Cell Wrap, it’s the most basic design for a communicating device without any frills. Focusing on the idea of using a gadget simply for the purpose that it is intended to, the designer makes the best use of the recycled Polyethylene to literally wrap a lead-free LCD screen, a PCB Board and a keypad.
There comes a time when a good product category just dies, think telegraph or typewriter, fantastic inventions eclipsed by time and progress. Case in point, the Eclipse phone from Brian Ho does a great job of making everything old look new again. But despite looking like it belongs in Minority Report, it functionally remains the same old, outdated, rapidly aging home phone. Can industrial design save products from nursing homes or is this a lost cause?
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