Talk On Your Phone Too Much? Get An Ear Cushion For It
By Chris Scott Barr
Today is just full of brilliant ideas for the iPhone. Though technically, this one works on many phones (they just chose the iPhone to demonstrate how even a good-looking phone can be made hideous), not just Apple’s powerhouse. This blight on your eyes is called the Earos, which apparently makes your phone more comfortable to hold against your ear.
I don’t know about you, but it takes an awful lot of talking on my phone to actually make my ear start to hurt. Which leads me to believe there is a cheaper alternative that will provide you with an even more comfortable experience. I like to call it “don’t talk on the phone so damn much.” Seriously, if you talk on the phone for so many hours each day that you’re thinking of adding a giant toilet seat-shaped accessory to your (now non-)mobile phone, I think you might want to re-think what you’re doing with your life. If you do actually want one of these things, you’ll have to wait until it gets out of the concept stage.
[ Yanko ]
Posted: October 12th, 2010
at 7:33am by Chris Scott Barr
Topics: Accessories, CellPhones, Concepts, General
Nokia Design By Community Wants Your Phone Design
Do you think that Nokia phones aren’t as cool as they could be? Well, you might be able to have some say this time, as Nokia has launched its Design by Community initiative, allowing users to create their ideal concept device. You’ll be able to tweak the screen size, screen type, keypad layout, buttons, and screen ratio. The weird thing is that there’s a meter that lets you know if you’re creating a device that’s “too way out there” or “not ambitious enough”. If Nokia is trying to get a fresh perspective on things, wouldn’t having a meter to nudge people in a certain direction be counterproductive?
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A Stoplight for the Progress Bar Generation [Image Cache]
Progress bars aren’t always accurate, but at least they’re there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn’t done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace.
We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets’ lights cycles through, so the Eko stoplight concept, intended to let drivers know if it’s ok to shut off your car to save gas at a light, won’t really change a whole lot. But it would set a precedent, a standard, and a model for everything else: I want progress bars on my toaster, my pizza deliveries, my teapots, my dryer. No, scratch that: I need them.
And if you think about it, our innate desire to see the bar creep forward (or around, as it were) runs deeper than our slow entanglement with computers. I mean, what is a line if not a progress bar made of people? What about a sliced loaf of bread? A growing child? And oh god, clocks. This is too much for a Monday. [Yanko via Ubergizmo]
Posted: November 30th, 2009
at 12:26pm by John Herrman
Topics: Concepts, Design, Eko stoplight, Image cache, Progress bar, Progress bars, Stop lights, Stoplights
Map-Hole Concept Has Merit
By Andrew Liszewski
Designed by Jiae Kwon, Map-Holes are replacement man-hole covers that serve as a sort of static compass for tourists and pedestrians, showing them what direction to head to find a particular landmark in the city they’re visiting, and letting them know how long it takes to walk there. The idea definitely has merit, but I don’t think replacing man-hole covers is the ideal solution. Not only because they usually exist in the middle of a street, but they’d also have to be perfectly oriented in order for them to be effective. If one gets even slightly misaligned, there’s going to be a lot of misguided tourists.
[ Yanko Design - Map Hole Points The Way ] VIA [ The UberReview ]
Power Socket SWITCH does away with need to unplug
We’ve been told pretty often to unplug our devices from the main power outlet whenever they are not in use just in case of an electrical surge that might just kill off whatever devices connected to the grid, as well as these gizmos sipping power unnecessarily even when they’re just idle. The Pocket Power SWITCH aims to change that by removing completely turned off if it isn’t plugged in properly.
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