Fujitsu has been wowing us with
cellphone concepts for
quite some time, but this year's round at
CEATEC is undoubtedly a show-stopping bunch. Some of the hottest ideas to come from the outfit's most recent mobile phone design contest were on display here in Japan, and we went end to end capturing the lot. The clear pebble mock-up (shown above) was easily the crown jewel (in our mind, anyway), with a small black blob able to morph into different screens (media panels, a keypad, web browser, etc.) depending on which corner you drag said blob into. There was also a design reminiscent of paper mache, not to mention one with a circular vibe that just has to be a long lost cousin to Motorola's
AURA. Have a gander at the masterpieces in the gallery below, but don't bet on these hitting your
favorite carrier anytime soon.
posted Oct 6th 2009 5:01AM
I want a mobile phone/ashtray.
those are inserts for women's bras....
"honey, your phone is ringing again, let me get that for you..."
Two girls, one phone! EEeeeeewww.....
Looks like a soap dish
They do look like ashtrays to me too... Are you suppose to dial with cigarette buds?
OH SHI- no, soap dish!
The soap-dish/mobile could also "treble" as an air-freshener while charging by discharging pleasant aromas.
It sure looks like one!
What phone?
they used spare mighty mouse cases? :)
http://ant.sillydog.org/blog/pic/mightymouse_03.jpg
Some are quite "out of the box" ideas, some not so much.
The wrist device is cool... but most likely will charge more for Caucasian arms.
My favourites are the Fujitsu Pre and the pen MID/phone.
Cool is not enough to describe them.
ok so one looks like a breast implant, the other one looks like a razr v20, one apparently stole it's design from the amulet in the Mummy Returns, and then we have that red gargantuan that would require you to whip it out to 3 shades of ridiculousness in the manor that people would probably assume you're trying to wire a bomb. And it appears it was too hard to depict the conception of a touch screen for most of these 'concepts'.
I don't know about you, Fujitsu.
"...one apparently stole it's design from the amulet in the Mummy Returns..."
That cracked me up, but I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't want it even more now :-p I wonder if it'll come with Rachel Weisz...
obviously a detractor of concepts and design. One word for sure, you have no sense of style and taste.
"depending on which corner you drag said blob into"
I don't know what you're seeing, but I see an ellipse. Those don't have corners. I am very confused as to how to operate this phone.
some very interesting and cool looking concepts there. they all really thought outside the box on these.
I love/want that red pipboy looking one!!!!
Fujitsu has long been innovative. My Fujitsu "Pocket Commander" in 1990/1 was well featured as well as the smallest, especially with the thin battery, of anything around.
OP did you travel back in time?
These phones are terrible and useless. Why would you design a future phone with a number pad at all? We already don't need them, in 3 years we won't remember what they are for.
Sad as it is, the only cell phone design that matters these days is a screen, as thin as you can make it.
In what world do cellphones not need a number pad???
When we have cloud-synced contacts who use email/IM/Voip moreso than cell voice... These are concept phones, remember? They should be designed with at least a little foresight.
is it soap dish or ash tray? that's a question.
Finally! That combination phone and soap tray I've always been looking for!
Just another phone that will get me searched at airports
Sorry I do not want a piece of art for a cell phone.
I looked at the round one and the first thing that popped into my head: "Chevron seven locked" followed by a whooshing sound and then my party on the other end of the connection.
Interesting designs but none seem very practical. And you'd have to be some serious geek to want to wear the red Electro-Comp looking one...
They're pretty cool ideas, but non-working mockups are meh. Anyone can come up with a soap-dish design, getting it to actually work is what actually impresses me.