LG's concept phone contest winners should please art house gadgetphiles
By Samuel Axon 
posted Nov 8th 2008 8:27AM
posted Nov 8th 2008 8:27AM
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]
[Via Hallyu Tech]
dang that's awesome someone should make an app like that for the android
I'd tap it.
I herd you like phones, so I put a phone on your phone, so now you can dial while you dial.
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.
I found your post confusing and slightly disturbing.
+1
I found your reply confusing and slightly disturbing. +1 to parent
I found your post fucking stupid.
allislost
@Elijah
I found your reply to be quite amusing, a little biased against bananas, but amusing nonetheless.
Foofahh!!!!
Of course he's biased against bananas. You were designed by god to be stuffed into Kirk Cameron's mouth.
Love it :)
They need to find a way to work a Death Star in there to destroy contacts for less-than-cordial break-ups.
Speaking of concepts
http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=g2redesignkx2.jpg
ooooh fancy floating buttons!
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.
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!"
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?
imagine the reaction when it hatches.
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
So what happens if you drop it?