Less phone, More Touchscreen!

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What’s better than a phone with a curved screen? A phone with screens everywhere! What’s better than having to wear a fitness tracking device to check your medical stats? Having a phone who’s camera can perform a pretty decent bio-scan to check up on your health!

I love conceptual designs. They’re wild, outlandish, and sometimes unrealistic, given today’s tech capabilities. But that’s what pushes technology, to be honest. Nothing gives science a direction more than conceptual designs. If it hadn’t been for Back to the Future, we wouldn’t have spent our lives creating actual working hoverboards! The Touch-Sense is a phone that replaces all conventional modes of interaction one has with a phone… with touchscreens. The volume rocker is a touch screen, the standby button is a touch screen. There’s even a screen on the back, around the camera. The designer’s motive here was to create a phone that uses technology to simplify the phone’s visual design. I’ll be honest, the phone looks like a slab of polished granite now. I am impressed, truth be told.

Remember the fitness tracker simile I used earlier? Well the Touch-Sense has a rear surface that uses appropriate sensors to detect anything from heart-problems, to even skin ailments. The dedicated back screen displays diagnostics, making the phone not just a communication device, but also your own personal doctor of sorts. Now ain’t that just cool?

Designer: Ben Ingignieri

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Sarang Sheth
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.