01.11.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design

27 Comments

Phone with an Extra Squishy Surprise

Phone with an Extra Squishy Surprise

My generation (I’m 30′ish if you must know) will not understand the need to have a cool looking phone that allows you to browse the internet intuitively, but the millennial generation do and I suspect they would love the Trypoxy Phone. Looks like a smooth pebble but for the ultimate web browsing experience, the rear has a soft-gel-like grab extension that can pulled out. It fits snuggly in one hand and has built-in controls to pinch and squeeze your way through the internet with simulated buttons for scrolling and moving back/forth thru pages.

0 Designers: Miyazawa Tetsu & Ichimura Shigenori

01.10.11
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

28 Comments

The New Flip Phone

The New Flip Phone

Here’s a flip phone that could put the “cool” back into clamshells. When you receive an incoming call, the corner dog-ears up and if need be, opens up (book-style) using actuators like artificial muscles in its elastomeric cover. Awesome! Motorola StarTAC 2.o maybe?

0 Designers: Miyazawa Tetsu & Ichimura Shigenori

01.03.11
Long Tran

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

26 Comments

Envy the Envy 4G

Envy the Envy 4G

There was a time when ID “imagineers” would concoct fabulous concepts using new fangled tech that hadn’t been invented yet and I miss those days. Heaven forbid you do that now, you’d get your a** handed to you. I’m fond of the Envy 4G with its SUPER AMOLED screen and MasterMobile OS. So what if it looks like Windows Phone 7 and iOS 4 had a baby? It’s got a Carbon chip! That’s a CPU and GPU on one silicon. It’s the future people, have fun with it.

0 Designer: Vitor Gomes

12.24.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design

32 Comments

Multiple OS's on a Smartphone

Multiple OS’s on a Smartphone

The Smartphone market is definitely going to be more competitive in 2011 with five platforms competing for the crown, but designers Michal Bonikowski and Rafal Pilat feel there’s no need to choose just one so they’ve come up with three concepts sure to appease most of you. Project one is an HTC model that can run multiple operating system (not gonna happen) but an intriguing idea nonetheless. I’d actually go for a phone like that. Projects 2 and 3 are more standard fare. Hit the jump

0 Designers: Michal Bonikowski & Rafal Pilat - Mindsailors

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12.20.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

12 Comments

Phone Loves to Tan

Phone Loves to Tan

The first thing you notice about the Double phone are the solar cells across its facade. The second thing you notice is the 360º hinge.  Pretty cool looking concept with the added benefit of never running out of power as long as the sun is up. Spec wise, the 3.2 inch LCD screen, touch interface and transparent panel for notifications is more than enough to keep up with the big boys in the market.

0 Designer: ZTE Corporation

12.14.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

36 Comments

It’s Time for a Braille Smartphone

It’s Time for a Braille Smartphone

Voim (seeing in Korean) is a smartphone concept for the blind that includes functions to make communication easier. It features route navigation, word recognition and object identification, which are displayed as braille on a silicon screen or transmitted as audio cues via the detachable bluetooth headset. Although smartphone applications & braille cell phones do exists, a full-fledged concept like this is a ways away.

0 Designers: Youngseong Kim & Eunsol Yeom

12.02.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Cellphones
Technology

34 Comments

This Phone Hovers in Space

This Phone Hovers in Space

Oh so you’re not satisfied with phones that connect at speeds almost as fast as you can click and hundreds of new applications that do everything under the sun each day? Well here’s something new for you then! It’s a concept design done by two industrious folks In-oh Yoo and Sun-woong Oh who want nothing more than to bring you a phone that spins in mid-air. This phone works in tangent with its charging cradle, its cradle, the phone and magnets creating a space where the phone spins while charging, creating a unique aesthetic experience.

0 Designers: In-oh Yoo and Sun-woong Oh for Metatrend Institute

11.29.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

419 Comments

We Want Your Empathy

We Want Your Empathy

For their sponsored project held by RIM Blackberry at the Art Center College of Design, designers Kiki and Daniel had to incorporate an interface that integrates human emotions with the concept of social networking. The result of this exercise was the Empathy concept. The phone is used in conjunction with a biometrics ring that is worn by the user to collect “emotional data”. Spec-wise it features a transparent OLED screen that becomes transparent when not in use and opaque during interaction. The front is all touch surface, while on the back there is a physical keyboard.

0 Designers: Kiki Tang & Daniel Yoon

11.18.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Accessories & Fashion
Cellphones
General Gifts
Reviews

26 Comments

Chubbify Your iPhone 4

Chubbify Your iPhone 4

I just find this iPhone 4 case by Arkwhat hilarious. While Apple spends millions on R&D to make their phone as thin as possible, a soft goods manufacturer puts out a case to make it as fat as possible. The Arkhippo I – Love it! It’s made of dense foam in a myriad of colors – super lightweight and shaped like an old school brick. Yes, I’m sure those of you old enough to remember the beginnings of cellular technology will remember how FAT phones were.

0 Designer: Arkwhat (Buy it here)

11.17.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

114 Comments

I Can See Through Your Juice

I Can See Through Your Juice

The Second Life Mobile Phone Concept works on the premise that we often forget about the battery life of our mobile phones, hence run out of juice, just at the wrong time. As a remedy (rather power-saver-option) the phone incorporates a double display. When in active use the AMOLED screen powers up in all glory and in standby mode the E-ink display gets active. This essentially means that the E-ink uses very little energy and the degree of transparency of the display shows how much battery is remaining. The more transparent the display, the less battery remaining.

0 Designers: Cho Sinhyung & Jeon Jungjae

11.15.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design

76 Comments

Porsche Design Smartphone For Your Cellphone Wet Dreams!

Porsche Design Smartphone For Your Cellphone Wet Dreams!

Conceptual plans are awesome especially if they promise you the moon! Here is what André luring you with, a Porsche Design Smartphone that is in slick aluminum, and a huge clean multi touch screen. The speaker is hidden out of sight between the glass and the aluminum body, to increase its aesthetic appeal and sound enhancement. The line at the bottom is the home and navigation button and the aluminum volume controls are housed to the left side.

0 Designer: André Duarte Silva

10.18.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Cellphones
Product Design
Technology

7 Comments

Beauty From Within

Beauty From Within

You don’t need x-ray vision goggles to appreciate inner beauty and you don’t need a superficial skin to beautify the X-RAY Phone. For his collaboration with KDDI iida, Tokujin Yoshioka settles for the inner beauty theme while designing the phone. Tech chips and electronic parts are aesthetically arranged internally and a cleverly positioned display, under the transparent skin, brings out the true meaning of “designing from inside.”

0 Designer: Tokujin Yoshioka

10.13.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Cellphones
Gadgets
Technology

15 Comments

Crystal Power Up

Crystal Power Up

So I was in the comic books and games store the other day, minding my own business, and what catches my eye? Dice. Thousands of dice. All sizes and shapes and amounts of sides and materials. Materials, you say? Yes, there was a case full of dice whose prices ranged into the triple digits for a small pack: packs of silver, gold, and other fine materials. Wacky wonderful! So what’ve the designers at Calypso Crystal got brewing for you in their lab along these lines? Maybe something… crystal?

0 Designer: Calypso Crystal

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