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.
Reading a book at night can really bother your sleeping partner, I bet they keep complaining about the light. MARK is trying to give you the solution of this dilemma, you can place it on the book’s page and MARK will provide you the light. You can also place it between pages as ordinary book mark. Mark is a thin and flexible sheet made out of embedded FOLEDs (flexible organic LEDs) which can glow to help you read each pages in the book in the dark. The light intensity can be controlled according to the user requirement. Pretty handy isn’t it ? No wonder this MARK concept has won the Red Dot award 2007, In illumination category.
Forget about the Nokia Tube, as that’s a mere cry baby, compared to the sexy concept below. The Nokia 9900 aims to deliver what the Finnish manufacturer has been trying to create for the past year, a perfect rival for the iPhone. However, we get more than we imagined: a penphone with uber-features.
Plica is a conceptual phone that uses 2 screens instead of one, and has the advantage of shape as it is dimensionally the same as regular phone. Plica phone concept is trying to offer a better design compared to iPhone which has many complains on its size of the interface, which is too small for some people’s hand. Splitting it into two allows you to dedicate one of the touch screens as a keyboard and the other as a touch monitor. You can also view a single web page or image across both screens. This could be the next evolution in mobile electronics.
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 But despite looking like it belongs in Minority Report, it functionally remains the same old, outdated, rapidly aging home phone.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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