Social Mobile Phones

In a fascinating article in TheFeature.com by Marc Frauenfelder -- February 24, titled «Beyond the Politeness-Button», Marc describes «The Social Mobile phones», a project developped by industrial design firm, Ideo.

The 5 SoMo handsets were designed to encourage conversation about the role of mobiles in public spaces and to curb abusive mobile behaviour, such as designing phones able to deliver an electric shock to your hand when the person you're talking to is too loud, or activating a little slingshot mechanism on a catapult phone -- which transmits a loud burst of incomprehensible babble to the offending person's handset, or having to play the phone like a flute in order to make a call.

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