Take a cell phone Swig!

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

[via Yanko Design]

The Power Of My Wrist

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]

Phone, Ear-Phone, Phone Concept

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.

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

... 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.

[via Core77]

Holographic Text Messages

Spotted on TrendHunting.

Holographic 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.

Ondo Concept Phone Twists and Bends to Edit Music

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

Glassy Glassy Mobile Phone Concept

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

Pretty.

Touch Screen Rotary Phone

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

Illuminated Crystal Phones

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

Opposing 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.

Coupled Cell Phones

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

Conduit cell phone concept

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

Alcatel Lego Phone

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

Sculpted Phone No Different From Hosta Plant

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]

DYI pencil iPhone stand

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

Apple Keyboard Concept Holds iPod/iPhone

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

iPhone Wedding Cake Makes Geek Happy

Spotted on Gizmodo, an iPhone wedding cake.

Links to other iPhone and cell phones cakes.

socket-deer recharges your cell phone

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]

Fur and Rhinestone Phone

Spotted on The Red Ferret, The Emerson Pink Fur and Rhinestone Phone. I'm speechless.

The Natural Year Phone

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

By designer Je-Hyun Kim

Tactile iPhone case concept for the visually impaired

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]

iPhone Nano

Spotted by Techradar, an iPhone Nano in China.

Two glass phone concepts

Spotted on Yanko Design, two glass phone concepts by Designer Mac Funamizu.

Pomegranate Phone makes Coffee

A fresh cup of coffee for your smart phone is actually a clever ad campaign for Nova Scotia, promoting tourism to “a place that has everything”.

[via Laughing Squid]

Nokia futuristic

Spotted on Yankodesign, a futuristic mobile phone designed by Heikki Juvonen for Nokia.

The ‘Quickphone’ Kiosk

Spotted on Trendhunter, The ‘Quickphone’ Kiosk, one of the 42 amazing vending machine featured in their gallery.

The idea is to provide a ‘Quickphone’ for travelers or phone users who know what they want and don’t need the boring patter of a sales person counting out endless features.

Also featured: "The used underwear vending machine", "the bicycle vending machinE", "the boyfriend vending machine", "the innovative idea vending machine", "vending by mood"...

Links to Other cell phone vending machines.

A Finger Phone by Zinc Chin

Spotted on Core77, from the Coroflot portfolio of : Zinc Chan (London, United Kingdom).

In his own words: "I have based my design on the iconic hand gesture people use to represent the telephone. The handset is divided into two parts, earphone and microphone. This invites the user to use the iconic gesture when using the phone. When the user dials the numbers, an animated path is shown on the touch screen. Therefore, people start to remember the person by their unique pattern rather than the numbers. This, together with the two-piece handset creates a more emotional interaction between the phone and the user."

A Phone That’s Not Afraid to Mess with Water

Spotted on Yanko Design, a Nokia concept phone by designer Rune Larsen:

"Among the grievous wrongs done by touchscreen technology, the worst is its disregard for tactile feedback. Without the pleasant sensation of a button being pressed, we are woefully incapable of using any gadget without complete visual attention.

This Nokia concept tries to right this wrong by using a small pump to fill a substrate beneath the screen that gives our fingers something to feel and press. Maybe now I can finally type out these posts while driving to work without having to put my coffee in the cup holder."

LAVENDER DESIGN Phone & fragrance dispenser concept

The LAVENDER DESIGN phone conept by Andrew Seunghyun Kim has a built-in perfume dispenser of you guessed it, lavender.

If that were not enticing enough, the LAVENDER DESIGN also features a built-in “LAVENDER LIGHT” that coats your phone in a bath of bacteria killing UV lights while charging.

[via Yanko Design]

Neck Braces for Mobile Phones

Designer Francesca Lanzavecchia's functional neck braces:

LEFT: The aid-object grows to accommodate the user’s lifestyle and modern dependencies. This PU foam neck brace offers to cradle our communication prosthesis.

RIGHT: Functionally exhibitionistic. This neck brace stores life’s necessities beneath a stretchable semi-transparent rubber skin.

Stuffed Teddy Bear Concept Phone

Spotted on Trends in Japan, a concept phone in the shape of a stuffed teddy bear -that holds a SIM card and enables you to make and receive calls.

It was shown off at the Good Design Expo by mobile provider Willcom.