LG's concept phone contest winners should please art house gadgetphiles

When we see alluring phone concepts that'll never leave the lab, we end up wishing there was a little more innovation in the handsets out in the wild. There was a wealth of eyebrow-raising examples of that principle when LG Japan exhibited top entries to its Mobile Design Contest last weekend. We're keen on the fbt, a phone designed for braille text messaging, and the Tap, which is shaped like a light switch and functions like one too -- when you tap it, the phone turns off so you can live once again in peace. The winner, though, was the above-pictured Planet Phone, the surface of which is dotted with LEDs representing your friends; if you don't talk to someone for a while, their light gradually moves out to the edge. It's supposed to remind you to keep in touch, but it has darker connotations -- if you become angry with someone, you can revel in the pleasure of watching them slowly tick away into oblivion. That's absolutely a feature we want to see added to the Storm.

[Via Hallyu Tech]

[xor24 @ Nov 8th 2008 8:32AM]

dang that's awesome someone should make an app like that for the android

[Chris @ Nov 8th 2008 9:03AM]

I'd tap it.

[nick @ Nov 8th 2008 9:33AM]

I herd you like phones, so I put a phone on your phone, so now you can dial while you dial.

[allislost @ Nov 8th 2008 9:35AM]

This idea is completely useless in so many levels and i will provide an example to point out the irrefutable truth that underpins my reasoning behind what may be considered blasphemy by saying that i'm a banana.

[SimonRichards @ Nov 8th 2008 9:50AM]

I found your post confusing and slightly disturbing.

+1

[Ghen @ Nov 8th 2008 9:58AM]

I found your reply confusing and slightly disturbing. +1 to parent

[Elijah @ Nov 8th 2008 10:09AM]

I found your post fucking stupid.

[Niz @ Nov 8th 2008 11:29AM]

allislost

[allislost @ Nov 8th 2008 12:29PM]

@Elijah

I found your reply to be quite amusing, a little biased against bananas, but amusing nonetheless.

[SanAnLui @ Nov 8th 2008 6:21PM]

Foofahh!!!!

[sean @ Nov 8th 2008 2:39PM]

Of course he's biased against bananas. You were designed by god to be stuffed into Kirk Cameron's mouth.

[Cybergypsy @ Nov 8th 2008 10:11AM]

Love it :)

[ironman @ Nov 8th 2008 10:44AM]

They need to find a way to work a Death Star in there to destroy contacts for less-than-cordial break-ups.

[TareX @ Nov 8th 2008 10:54AM]

Speaking of concepts
http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=g2redesignkx2.jpg

[Colin Potter @ Nov 8th 2008 5:20PM]

ooooh fancy floating buttons!

[BratPAQ @ Nov 8th 2008 11:54AM]

i imagine your girlfriend would be in the middle of it, then after the marriage, she would start to drift away to the side. and the middle contact would be replaced by a young office mate.

[Dan Fruzzetti @ Nov 8th 2008 12:06PM]

I wouldn't be caught dead talking into a gen-1 iMac mouse.

Scotty: "Computer?"
Materials Engineer: "No, you've got to use this."
Scotty: [Picking up the mouse and holding it to his mouth] "Ahh.... Computer!"

[Goatee Man @ Nov 8th 2008 2:10PM]

Am I the only one who thinks it'll be kind of weird walking down the street and talking into what looks like a glowing egg?

[you @ Nov 8th 2008 3:03PM]

imagine the reaction when it hatches.

[Crockett and Tubbs @ Nov 8th 2008 3:52PM]

Theres no way I'd replace my Motorola DynaTAC 8000X with that. It doesnt even have an antenna and a battery the size of brick.

Give me analog celluar anyday.

http://www.retrobrick.com/moto8000.html

[grull27 @ Nov 8th 2008 8:39PM]

So what happens if you drop it?