Mobile phones of the future are all set to turn into technological marvels, if LG decides to put any of these designs into phone manufacturing that is. The company recently announced the winners of the 3rd Annual Design the Future Competition in which, participants set out to designs phones of the future. And they did come up with some pretty awesome designs to! Virginia Tech ID students, Zack Filbert, Chris Carpenter, James Connors, and Kees Luyendijk won the first place with their design.
The runners up were no less awesome. The Premium won second place, with a 3D interface, that hooks on to a car for a full fledged infotainment system and car-info system. Dua Xiong won the Prop Mater’s Choice Award for the Flutter, a fan-like smartphone that opens up to display a OLED touch screen. This phone will feature in a future film too! The Atlas phone grabbed attention too, with a dock featuring a tracking system which senses hand gestures and projecting the pages. Yet another phone design to look out for was the Surface, a watch phone with a Braille-like design system. Future phones are all set to be technological design marvels.
LG Design
Aston Martin Design
Here’s an official concept phone this time, one created by Aston Martin and Mobiado, the famous luxury gadget designer. What you can see below is a transparent phone running Android and these are all renders, right now. Dubbed the CTP002, this phone is a big sapphire glass surface with titanium edges.
The glass is in fact a capacitive touchscreen and Mobiado hopes to also implement a SIM card slot, a chipset and a battery on this gizmo. Mobiado CTP022 is supposed to connect to the car and its display, with the latter showing a map of local venues and friends from the Foursquare network. Turns out that the camera in your car can snap a photo and post it on Facebook letting everyone know you own an Aston Martin.
This is all daydreaming if you ask me, but the concept of the device will be shown at BaselWorld in Switzerland, so feel free to drop by, if interested.
A contemporary
A contemporary mobile phone must maintain such functions, as: mobility, constant Internet access, access to the documents, games and to give the best possibilities and means of communication and contact. A new generation mobile phone “Mobile script” gives all these possibilities!
- Ability to view movies
- Using the browser
- Targeting areas with the help of internet services
All of these functions is more convenient to use on a large screen, which is located inside the phone in the collapsed state.
BA Smartphone Concept
Maleville Sébastien recently detailed the BA Smartphone concept, a pretty innovative idea that can be seen in the images below. This is a rotating phone with a physical keyboard and touch display. The BA name comes from the number eight in Chinese, that is the symbol of full versatility , both horizontally and vertically.
The handset is made of aluminum and its structure is divided into two equal parts. The top part includes a touchscreen display, while the bottom part includes a physical keyboard with pretty big and comfy keys. They’ll come in handy for elderly users and folks who want to avoid mistyping.
If you flip the keyboard on the other side, you can access a wide touch area, allowing you to take full advantage of the full touch applications and very cool games. There’s a camera button on the frame of the phone, so you can hold the device like a traditional camera and take pics.
Nokia Design
As a general rule, cell phone batteries are costly, resource-intensive, and difficult to dispose of properly. So why not ditch them and run our cell phones on soda? That’s the thinking behind designer Daizi Zheng’s concept phone for Nokia. Instead of running on traditional batteries, the concept phone uses a bio battery that generates electricity from carbohydrates.
Fuel cells powered by sugar are nothing new — they’ve been in use for years — but Zheng’s point seems to be that we shouldn’t overlook innovative uses for the products we consume everyday. And of course, maybe Coke does belong in a battery more than it belongs in our bodies. It doesn’t hurt that the bio battery can operate for three to four times longer than a lithium-ion battery on a single charge, either.
We jut have one question: what about all the energy used to produce Coke? In the end, it probably makes more sense to use plain sugar water as a fuel source — unless it’s your New Year’s resolution to give up on your stockpile of soda.
Source: t-future 1, t-future 2, itechfuture 1 and itechfuture 2
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