Archives for the category: Cell Phone Designs and Concepts

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October 12, 2009

Concept phones Gallery on Le Monde

French daily Le Monde published an amazing gallery of concept phones last Friday.

Below are are my two favorites:

The soap phone, it's washable.

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The fold-a-phone. So thin, you can fold it like paper.

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View full gallery.

[via RaphaelHunold/Twitter]


emily | 7:58 AM | permalink

October 9, 2009

The Bathphone

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Spotted on Trendhunter, the bathphone concept phone. To take calls while you soak. By South Korean designer Yoon Ungnoh.

emily | 9:24 AM | permalink

September 25, 2009

DoCoMo Shows Off Concept Phone Made from Wood

DoCoMo_Shows_Off_Concept_Phone_Made_from_Wood_1.jpg Japan's NTT DoCoMo says that it has developed a mobile phone prototype made with the surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. The prototype was created in collaboration with Sharp, Olympus and "more trees," a reforestation project founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others.

[via Cellular News]

Related concept phones made out of wood:

-- The nautical-aesthetic S-SERIES wooden mobile phone

-- S-series: wood-like concept mobile phone

-- The CulArt concept phone

-- Woood (2007) - Smart Phone Concept

-- The Ziricote (wooden) PHONE. One of a kind by Hulger

-- Gresso's mobile phone made of African Blackwood and Gold

-- Wooden handmade Cellphones from Mozambique

-- Hand-carved wooden phones from Russia

-- Fand-carved wooden "phones" from Helsinki

emily | 8:14 AM | permalink

September 9, 2009

The Molecular Telephone

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Spotted on Yanko Design, a Molecular Telephone concept. By Tjep Design for the O2 company.

emily | 8:33 AM | permalink

September 5, 2009

A new Color Rings Cell Phone Concept

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Spotted on IntoMobile via Ubergizmo, a new Color Rings ‘Handset’ concept from designers bck. We haven't seen one of these since 2004.

In their own words: The color rings are an accessory for cell phones that are inspired in the gestural language of the use of the phone. It is conceived as an extension of the hand, which makes their use a more natural one, and more comfortable and more attractive as well.

Other Ring Phones:

-- The Ring Phone - The winning submission at the 2004 Siemens Design Challenge. a competition for best new mobile phone design.

-- Ring phone concept - 24-year old designer Tao Ma won first prize in the Sony Ericsson 2004 Phone Concept Design Competition in China for his Ring Phone Concept.

-- Let Your Fingers and Toes Do the Talking- A Ring Phone concept for mobile phones, part of Technojewelry which incorporates emerging electronics into everyday attire.

emily | 10:00 AM | permalink

August 23, 2009

X-ray Photograph of a cell phone

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Nick Veasey uses x-ray machines of various sizes to create stunning photography of everyday objects.

Ad Lab via The Telegraph.

emily | 4:00 PM | permalink

August 22, 2009

A different-looking phone concept

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A phone concept from New York based still life photographer Horacio Salinas. He works with Vogue, The New York Times, GQ amongst other to create fashion editorial or even illustrate articles.

[via Trend.Land]

emily | 7:02 PM | permalink

August 19, 2009

Window Phone concept predicts the weather

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Spotted on Yanko Design, The ‘Window Phone’ concept by Seunghan Song that makes accurate predictions and even changes its display to reflect the climatic conditions outdoors.

emily | 8:56 AM | permalink

August 14, 2009

Universal Phone Concept for both blind and sighted people

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The Universal Phone, by D Seunghan Song, is designed for both blind and sighted people. How does it work? Thousands of micro pins dynamically raise and lower forming a tactile surface for all to get touchy with. Sighted people get the elusive tactile.

[Yanko Design]

emily | 10:06 AM | permalink

July 19, 2009

Fat burning concept phone


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quotemarksright.jpgThe Stix concept phone is designed by Cyrene Quiamco and helps burn off calories to keep you in shape. This innovative device will only charge up again if you jog, jump, shake, or perform any other exercise so your kinetic energy can keep it working.

The actual phone wraps around your wrist and comes with a pedometer and heart rate monitor to track your vitals and help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.quotesmarksleft.jpg

[via Trendhunter]

emily | 9:34 AM | permalink

June 29, 2009

Take a cell phone Swig!

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The “Cheers” cell phone concept is powered by an efficient, maybe even energy-saving Alcohol-cell. By Designer: Tryi Yeh.

[via Yanko Design]

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emily | 1:39 PM | permalink

June 23, 2009

The Power Of My Wrist

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The Dyson Energy Bracelet - by designers: Mathieu Servais, Camille Lefer, Clément Faydi & Mickaël Denié - is a gadget that uses Seebeck effect (= the thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. ) to harness energy and power your mobile phones for a few precious minutes more, when you desperately need it.

[via Yanko Design]

emily | 8:45 AM | permalink

June 8, 2009

Phone, Ear-Phone, Phone Concept

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Spotted on Yanko Design, the Kambala, a mobile phone that transforms to an earphone. Simply pop the center piece and the earpiece clip pings out; clip this to your ear, and you got a phone-earphone.

By Designer: Ilshat Garipov.

emily | 6:13 PM | permalink

Motorola celebrates 25 years of mobile phones with 12 concepts that look nothing like mobile phones

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quotemarksright.jpg... Thirty one of Motorola's designers, from five different offices around the globe, have been dedicating a portion of their time since late last year to a project called "Motorola 2033."

The initiative, under the auspices of the Consumer Experience Design team (CXD), uses the 25th anniversary of the mobile phone as an opportunity to imagine mobile device design 25 years on, resulting in a curious set of research-based blue sky concepts rooted in some fantastical, yet plausible suppositions.quotesmarksleft.jpg

[via Core77]

emily | 8:53 AM | permalink

June 1, 2009

Holographic Text Messages

Spotted on TrendHunting.

quotemarksright.jpgHolographic Text Messages will rock your world. With 1.5 million views in just a couple weeks, this viral video proves it. The video, by Inha Luke Yoo describes the concept as HoloText Messaging.

The kicker of course, is that this sort of technology isn’t yet available. But this concept video does a great job of showing you what holographic text messages will be like.quotesmarksleft.jpg

emily | 10:19 PM | permalink

April 20, 2009

Ondo Concept Phone Twists and Bends to Edit Music

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Spotted on Mobiledia, the Ondo, a new concept music phone that physically twists and bends to edit music on the go.

emily | 6:41 PM | permalink

April 14, 2009

Glassy Glassy Mobile Phone Concept

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Spotted on Ubergizmo via Likecool, The Glassy Glassy Mobile Phone Concept by Tokyo based designer Mac Funamizu.

Pretty.

emily | 8:56 AM | permalink

March 10, 2009

Touch Screen Rotary Phone

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Spotted on Yanko Design, a Touch Screen Rotary phone by Designer Mark Miller.

emily | 8:34 PM | permalink

February 20, 2009

Illuminated Crystal Phones

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Spotted on Trendhunter, the ‘Quartz Tele’ concept phone that turns phone dialling into a geological study.

quotemarksright.jpgOpposing the ultra-thin craze, the luminous ‘Quartz Tele’ extends its tentacle numerals towards your fingertips and lures you in for a phone call. The daring concept incorporates large quartz crystals for each number; pushing each crystal triggers the LED lights embedded beneath to give a more dramatic tone to making a phone call. quotesmarksleft.jpg

emily | 10:41 PM | permalink

February 16, 2009

Coupled Cell Phones

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Spotted on Trendhunter, a two is better than one cell phone concept.

emily | 9:49 AM | permalink

February 11, 2009

Conduit cell phone concept

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Spotted on DVICE, Conduit, a pan piper inspired cell phone design. By Tirshathah Hunter for Korean cell phone company SKY/Pantech.

emily | 6:56 PM | permalink

Alcatel Lego Phone

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Spotted on Slippery Brick, a Lego phone by Alcatel and Digital Blue.

emily | 6:46 PM | permalink

February 2, 2009

Sculpted Phone No Different From Hosta Plant

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The project we see here by Designer Anton Webb is a simple home phone taking inspiration from the Hosta Plant. For those with a serious lack of green-thumb-knowledge let me tell you that it’s a foliage plant that is not fussy and comes in a broad range of solid colors.

[via Yanko Design]

emily | 4:08 PM | permalink

January 23, 2009

DYI pencil iPhone stand

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Spotted on Trendhunter, a DIY iPhone stand made of pencils and rubber bands - by Geeky Gadgets. How cool is that?

emily | 10:29 AM | permalink

January 19, 2009

Apple Keyboard Concept Holds iPod/iPhone

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Spotted on Ubergizmo, an Apple keyboard concept which accommodates an iPhone.

emily | 11:03 AM | permalink

January 14, 2009

iPhone Wedding Cake Makes Geek Happy

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Spotted on Gizmodo, an iPhone wedding cake.

Links to other iPhone and cell phones cakes.

emily | 7:59 AM | permalink

December 19, 2008

socket-deer recharges your cell phone

03.jpg 02.jpg These electrical outlet covers let you put your mobile phone on the wall as it recharges. The antlers for all three types of deer are already the perfect shape to hold things.

Socket-deer can also be used as a cover for light switches, and the antlers make an excellent hook for keys or accessories.

[via Swiss Miss]

emily | 5:18 PM | permalink

December 8, 2008

The Natural Year Phone

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Spotted on Yanko Design, The biodegradable Natural Year Concept Phone "made of hay, sans screen and soft keys".

By designer Je-Hyun Kim

emily | 10:40 AM | permalink

December 1, 2008

Tactile iPhone case concept for the visually impaired

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This Silicon Touch iPhone case is used with an app store application designed for the Blind and the Visually Impaired to allow special accessibility functions like text-to-speech features and a moon type tactile alphabet keyboard.

This simple silicon case, covers all the Apple iPhone device, and with the help of the engraved bas-relief icons, keyboard and multi-touch scrolls, it gives fully access to the interface beneath.

Designer: Bruno Fosi

[via Yanko Design]

emily | 10:47 AM | permalink

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