Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 6:00am
Meet the isophone. This flux capacitor lookalike was designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau to create a relaxed, isolated environment for making a phone call.
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Friday, June 18, 2010 - 12:02pm
Trying to cram every conceivable function into a single portable device is tough. But what if you could set up your device with only the features — and hardware — you wanted at that particular moment? That's the idea behind the DIY Player concept from designer Shao Wen.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 6:17am
Japanese cellphone maker KDDI has announced a new phone that should be immediately unpopular to anyone with half a brain: it monitors your movements and can tell when you're slacking off. The phone, which you wear on your wrist, actually,...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 2:43am
Then again, that's the point. Designer Ichiro Iwasaki, a one-time member of the Sony Design Center who spent many years studying design in Italy, designed the Lotta to be a no-frills phone that isn't trying to win you over with...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 4:56am
Nokia is not adverse to dreaming up futuristic concepts (such as the Morph, pictured above, though the Morph used solar power), but this Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester sounds like it'll either do what the company says it will, or bring...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 11:49am
Austin's Adam Voorhes goes through some interesting journeys through his photography. Lucky for us geeks, one such adventure intersected with the gadget world. Voorhes took apart and shot — in quite the dramatic fashion — some retro gadgetry including an...
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 12:39pm
Today Microsoft unveiled Phone 7, the latest version of their Windows Mobile platform, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain. Microsoft may have been making operating systems for portable devices since long before they actually had phones in them,...
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 9:13am
Gun-loving Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson was not the kind of guy you would want to get on the wrong side of, so imagine how the technicians at the video-install place felt when they picked up this phone message. He...
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 2:05am
We all know that iPhone clones are two a penny, but the makers of this cellphone from, surprise, surprise, China, have delved even further into Apple's back catalogue and come up somewhere around 3,000 B.C. second-generation iPod. And, being rip-off...
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 2:05pm
More details are emerging about RIM's rumored Blackberry that wears like a watch. Well, an image has, anyway. What you see above could be a near-final rendering of what the Blackberry watch — which may be the "inPulse" when it...
