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Here’s a pretty interesting concept of a robot designed by Oleg M. and called Cyclop that can be operated from a mobile phone and used to take pics, record video, or just walk around the house. The robot’s feet are a sure indicator that it won’t be a speedy mini-Terminator but rather a very early version of the Transformer toys.
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MobiFrance celebrated the French Independence Day on July 14th by showing the world a neat concept phone shaped like the Eiffel Tower. The concept bears the name of FL (French Luxury) and it’s a touchscreen handset with a 7.2 megapixel camera.
If you hold the phone vertically it looks just like the famous French monument, the Eiffel Tower and you’ll also notice that it features speakers on its sides. The FL supports multimedia playback, features a vibration mode and that neat touchscreen is an OLED display. No news about the price of this beauty, but it’s pretty interesting to see the Sony Ericsson branding on it.
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David Turpin’s design of a touchscreen cellphone featuring Windows Mobile is brilliantly simple and sexy looking. Well, we can only assume that the handset’s display is touch sensitive, but judging by the device’s slimness, there’s no sliding keyboard hiding in there.
The only question now is what Windows Mobile flavour is this phone going to sport… Maybe Windows Mobile 7 and its superb touch-based interface? Also, I’m betting on the inclusion of an accelerometer for some auto-rotating menu fun.
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Among a variety of concept phones with touchscreens there are also a few devices with wrap around screens, that usually make a lasting impression on us. Eric Strebel’s latest work can be seen below, a smartphone with a huge touchscreen and a pretty hot interface.
We’re dealing with a handset that comes with an e-ink screen that can also display information on the side of the device. More than that, the phone also includes a sliding keyboard, aside from the touchscreen plus indents that make the handset easy to pick up.
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This interesting design won the annual D&AD Student Awards and the concept handset belongs to Chi Shing Lo, one of the talented students at the De Montfort University. The “Hole” phone features (predictably enough) a hole, that can be used for charging purposes (inductive), as a data transfer port and last but not least as a camera view finder.
The above-mentioned hole is surrounded by a mirrored surface, so it’ll allow the user to take his/her own picture, for the usual narcissistic fun. Hmmm, how about using that hole as magnifying glass with the aid of a lens or as a wrench if your imagination is wild enough.
Oh and by the way, the handset was designed for Orange so that’s a semi-promise that it’ll become real one day.
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Found this one on Flickr folks! It seems to be yet another iPhone clone with a touch of Nokia design and a pretty interesting interface. We’re dealing with a touchscreen handset called the Fit Cellphone, that allows the user to control it with the aid of gestures, like tilting the device in order to scroll through the contact list.
An interesting feature of Fit Cellphone’s interface is the fact that you can increase or decrease the size of on-screen buttons, in order to suit your preferences. Other than that we don’t have much info on this so any idea will be welcome.
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We’ve seen a couple of handsets for blind people till now, but this one is surely a looker. The Make Sens phone was designed by Takumi Yoshida and uses colour patterns and curves instead of the classic Braille keypad.
Seems that the Make Sens concept is also designed for people with poor vision, as it shows visual alerts, quite bright ones in order to attract the user’s attention. The big accent lights on the sides of the handset are used for this purpose, so you’ll be a walking disco, in case you wear white pants and the thing starts “alerting” you.
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The REI mobile phone design below belongs to Feng Xun and it’s an excellent example of touchscreen smartphone that resembles the iPhone and still manages to add a bit of extra flavour in the interface department. It’s got a virtual QWERTY keypad that can be used in normal and landscape mode and a pretty user friendly way of taking pics.
What does REI stand for? “Respect. Emotion. Individual”. I would have gone with “Interface” for the last one, but I guess that “individual” is just as good. Watch the concept phone in action below:
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It’s not all cellphones nowadays, as cordless concept devices can also prove to be quite original sometimes. One of them is the Hang Up Phone, designed by Donn Koh, from Singapore.
What’s its special feature? You can end calls by simply hanging the device anywhere or by letting it stand on a table. It comes with an induction charger and transmitter that looks like a hook.
Discrete? Oh yes it is!
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The Eclipse Intuit handset below reminds me of the concept phone with incorporated Bluetooth headset, that resembled the Sony PSP. This time, we’re treated with a better-than-average device, with a 5 megapixel camera, photo editing software, slide out touch keyboard (with tactile feedback) and a decent touchscreen.
Eclipse Intuit was designed by Eddie Goh and it uses a thin solar layer that charges using solar energy and not only that, relying on each and every source of light to keep the battery going. Apple had a similar concept, showing up on the Web a couple of weeks ago, so the solar phone is pretty doable, if you ask me.
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