Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Future(?) Design of Mobile Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-ok-not-quite dept.

Sad Loser writes "The future of the mobile phone is here, or at least a bunch of Nokia-sponsored industrial design students' take on the problem. The BBC also has more pictures." Most of these designs are quite silly (a necklace with squeezable beads for an address book?) but at least amusing.

3 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I see by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forgive my neo-Ludditism, but why does a cell phone have to be more than a phone?

    Because the big, bulky, annoying, expensive part of carrying electronic devices around is a combination of:

    • Screen
    • Keypad
    • Battery

    Why carry more than one of each of those around when you don't have to?

    --
    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
  2. Re:if this is the future... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please. I'm holding out for the artificial molar that allows perfect sound reproduction through bone conduction, and removes one of the last visual cues that distinguish me from a raving lunatic: a visible phone.

    I'll walk down the street talking to myself, and smacking myself in the face whenever I lose signal, and (this is the good bit) I'll never get panhandled again.

    --
    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
  3. Re:if this is the future... by MrSquirrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screw that, if this is what the future holds -- I'm going to enroll in whatever program they're in and design a cellphone that is also a baseball bat. That way, when future-people are talking on their annoying cellphone anal-beads or whatever, I can take out my cellphone and have the satisfaction of bludgeoning them to death.

    --
    A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.