People tend to keep cell phones for only two years, and Je-Hyun Kim’s Natural Year Phone concept takes that into consideration. The phone is designed to naturally biodegrade after the two years are up. 
A pop-up phone! Ilshat Garipov's "Kambala" is a fascinating concept that features a center piece that can pop out to fit into your ear, making it an earphone. In theory, it will also have the ability to match your skin tone, rendering it almost invisible. 
At first glance, this entrant into Fujitsu's cell phone design contest looks like an ordinary paperweight. Actually, it's a cleverly disguised phone. As the picture shows, the small black dot can be transformed into a keypad, media panel or web browser depending on what corner of the plastic handset you drag it to. 
Emir Rifat's "Packet" phone won first place at the Istanbul Design Week 2007. The tiny phone starts off at 5 cm square, then folds out as needed for different functions. 
Designed by Seunghan Song, this "window phone" concept will reflect current weather conditions on the screen. To input text, you just blow on the screen to switch modes, then write with your finger as a stylus.
Pick a phone, tell me why you dig it. OR pick a phone and tell my why you think it's stupid.
Talk to me . . .
109 comments:
I really like the window phone, it just looks like a prettier iPhone, but I think blowing on it to change modes would be inconvenient and icky if you were sick. The window phone or the packet is my favorite, but the packet phone would be really easy to lose since it's so small when it's folded.
And the biodegradable phone is just ugly. It looks like a pile of grass clippings on your ear, and what if it started biodegrading too early? Then you just wouldn't have a phone because yours literally fell apart.
-Tobin, 1st
The biodegradable phone is an idea because what do people do with old ones --everyone has some or we would not be recycling them for soldiers --although that is a good cause. The clear phone looks like a soap dish but I think I would prefer it over the one you blow on and the packet thing is just too wierd!
I don't like the biodegradable phone because what if you need to get important phone numbers off the phone.
I like the fujitsu phone because it looks awsome and it would be a good phone to impress your friends with.
Nicholas Morin - 7th period
I think the biodegradable phone is ugly and has no point. if you drop it does it fall appart? is it in any way water proof? will it dissolve?
-michi 1
the pop-up phone is really stupid. "its almost invisible"??? so then how are we going to be able to see it when we needed. For example: Its midnight and someone brakes in into your house, and your like panicking trying to find the "INVISIBLE PHONE" which you cant find it, and you end up getting kidnap or etc.... so yes i think that phone plain stupid.
-H.M. 1st
lol i like the pop up phone it will be non detectable just wat nhs needs ;)
the paperweight seems like if we were in a windy storm it would fly away
the biodegrade phone seems like it would just fall apart but cheers to being green
idk about the packet phone so clear i wud be a good idea
~Miara 1st
I do not like the biodegradable one because what if it messes up. That phone is ugly, and I would not put that on my ear because it looks like it would tickle lol :)
Takarya-1st
The biogegradable phone does not interest me at all. I don't understand why someone would want a phone that's going to literally break down in two yearss. I would want to have a phone that I know is going to last and, if needed, have it as a back up phone.
Amanda-1st
I love the idea of the windows phone. I mean come on who wouldnt want a clear phone that u can just blow on to change modes into texting!!!!? But on the other hand it might not be such an bright idea, because what if your texting another person that u dont want another person to know about well u cant hide it, THEY CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT!!!! TUTT-1ST
I agree with maria the pop-up phone will be nice for school just like what she said "it would be non detectable"
-H.M. 1st
I think the grass phone isnt a dumb idea because some people can keep a phone longer then 2 years and who wants a GRASS phone anyways (-__-) It looks like..... :o
The phone that looks like a paperweight is cool because if you get caught texting in class the teacher wouldnt believe thats really your phone.
And the window phone is cool because you can blow it for different menu's and its CLEAR! Who doesnt want a clear phone? Imagine taking pictures on a CLEAR phone! ;)
Vincent, 1st
=I agree with maria the pop-up phone will be nice for school just like what she said "it would be non detectable"
-H.M. 1st
I think the biodegradable phone is stupid because if it started falling apart in two years, and you still needed it, you wouldn't be able to use it! I think the Packet phone is cool because you can basically take it anywhere because it can fit in pretty much anything.
I also think the Window phone has a really cool appearance, but I don't think I would like the way it works.
Ellen- 1st
i think the biograde phone or in mrs.l's words "the weed phone" dont tell nobody lol but i think its stupid because who would want a phone made of what ever you want to call it. also we use touch screens now a days.DUH!!
D'jarius williams-1st
Congrats to the innovative thinking going on with all the phones...
Imagine the technology put into creating phones that can practically disappear and become paper weights.
While excellent ideas, I feel like the idea would be a lost one if someone seriously made a phone out of lawn trimmings... Or a paperweight. Senseless.
Brittany Diaz 1st period
I like the "Kambala".
The "Kambala" phones concept looks like a giant leap forward, with what were doing with cellphones, but it again will most likely not succed, with students being one of the largest buyers. The schools would have a very hard time, trying to stop them from using this cellphone since it is nearly invisible. Unless they saw you talking to yourself.
Michael, 1st
Personally the window phone I think would be the best phone out of all of them. It looks more convenient than the other phones. The way it was shown caught my eye when I first say it. The clearness of how its deatails are discribed is vey engaging to buy, especialy the see through detail. AS i looked it up it seemes to change with the weather; if its rainy the phones seems it has rain in it, or if its snowy there is real life like snow in teh phone.
The other pohnes either look llegal, too fragial or loseable. Yea i dont want a phone that is easier to loose.
Victor- 1st
The pop up phone interests me because it has the ability to fit your ear and matches your skin tone, which is amazing knowing how many nosey teachers are out there..UNBEATABLE!!!!!
The pop up phone interests me because it has the ability to fit your ear and matches your skin tone, which is amazing knowing how many nosey teachers are out there..UNBEATABLE!!!!!
Takarya-1st
Look at this!!
I want.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/05/25/in-2020-we-can-wear-sony-computers-on-our-wrist/
-Tobin, 1st
I like all of them, but they look kinda weird and stuff, naw but real talk i think that they should sale them or make them noticeble because i had never seen anything like those kreapy phones =)
-Paz 4th
men their is a phone that looks like weed but i think is fake!
-johnny 4th
The "window phone" looks nice and futuristic. I dont see how you would make calls on it but it looks good an simple.
Bonifilio Soto-4th
I Like The Windows Phone, And Honestly I Dont Even Know Why Haha
Jeron g. 4th Pd.
The window phone is so awesome. I really like that it's see through.The blowing on the screen to change modes makes it stand out even more.
D'ante
Curly what ever you say is wrong i'm just telling you now before you put anything.
G 4th
I like the "Window Phone" it looks awesome but having to blow on the screen to make it switch modes seems nasty but then it seems cool(: and all the other phones are just ugly and dumb ideas
Samantha-4th
I think the "Packet" phone looks good becuse it seems to be in 3d and that it's more exiting to have than other phones and also it looks to be more advance than other phones.
Marsilo Santoyo-4 period
Mrs.L
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/30-futuristic-phones-we-wish-were-real/
^^^ Better Phones
Jeron G. 4th Pd.
The window phone thing is pretty cool. its cool that its see through but looks like its easily breakable.. but other than that its cool
austin 4th
The paper weight phone was too cool!! It looks like a soap dish! lol The pocket phone however, was kinda weird because its like unfolding a box, too much. i like the clearish phone though because all you do is blow on it but i guess it kinda gross at the thought of getting like gross off your own air and then staying sick and having to touch it all..but the grass phone was the most grossest.
i like the cute lil egg phone cuz its soo adorable!!!!! i think that would be the best phone for ppl who likes to text in class...look at em so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jasmine-4
i like this cell phone because you can call with it and defend yourself with it at the same time.
http://mrpineappleman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blast-to-past.html
Bonifilio Soto-4th
The paper weight phone was too cool!! It looks like a soap dish! lol The pocket phone however, was kinda weird because its like unfolding a box, too much. i like the clearish phone though because all you do is blow on it but i guess it kinda gross at the thought of getting like gross off your own air and then staying sick and having to touch it all..but the grass phone was the most grossest.
Meagan McG-4th
I like the pop up phone its more creative than most phones and could eventually be hidden by teachers!!!!
-JacQues, 4th
love these phone's!
Osman 5th
i like all of them!!
they are all amazing in their own concept
diffrent phones for diffrent people:]
-Norma
5th
I would loose the clear phone, and the "grass" phone seems like it would break really easily. Im sticking to the iPhone.
-Elizabeth Turner
5th Period
the windown phone is pretty sick, not gonna lie. but I don't like the blowing on it thing, feel like that's pretty weird to be blowing on your phone. The clear technology on it is def pretty cool, never seen before. The technology is the same as the iphone which wouldn't be as cool if you're trying to find the hottest phone out. Honestly, all these phones (except illegal substance phone) would look really cool all rolled into one neat phone.
-the boss; David Radnitzer
-5th
i like the "window phone." it looks really cool and would be very different from things we have today. i would definitely want it if it was on the market!
Caroline Kingham 5
the paper weight looks like it could be a better version of the iphone. and i have an iphone
- david B. 5th
i think the green phone is, 1.has an ugly appearance, and 2. if you need it for longer than 2 years than you are out of luck. it just looks like a bad idea.
ellen a-5th
That clear one its the i would choose. the packet phone i would loose it haha
Miguelito 5th
I like the "pop-up" phone because it is different. the only thing I dislike about it is that it is so thin so there's a possibility that it could break easily. The "paperweight" phone is neat but someone could mistake it for a pebble, pick it up and start tossing it around. The "packet" and "natural" phone are just pointless because the packet is too small and the natural phone looks like an illegal substance which could cause problems for people if it were seen. The Windows phone is cool but the blowing on the phone is gross because we carry germs and they could easily be spread that way.
-Jameika 5th
I dont like any of them because i wouldnt be able to keep with them 1st off the biodigradable grass fone uhh i tend to drop my fone alot i dont want it falling apart on me!! Pop up fone uhhh just a bad idea who wants an invisible phone i dont wanna keep loosing it all the time. Fujitsu's fone is just blehh to me. Pop up fone will get lost i mean who can keep up with a lil 5cm square fone in a purse. Windows fone who wants to keep blowin on their fone to change what theyre doing what if your sick EWW germs i dont think so!!
-Ivette F. P5
I like the cell phone designed by Ilshat Garipov. It is clever to have the center piece be able to fit in your ear. These days so many people are talking on the phone while driving which isn't safe. With this phone you can stick in your ear and have both hands on the steering wheel.
-Meleah 5th
HEY TOBIN!!!!!!
the first phone looks like a pot phone lol-matt c,7th
i dont like the window phone because it would be too easy to lose. you would set it down and come looking for it and not see it but it would be right there in front of you.
Shaq - 7th
The window phone is nice but it could be deadly. Glass + Angry person= easliy broken.
Gary B-7th
I think that window phone looks pretty ballin, but I'm not sure how practical the idea is. It looks cool but it just doesn't seem that probable.
Gage Green-7
i dont really like many of the phones but if i had to pick one...the packet phone because itd kinda be fun to just fold your phone out and you could use it pretty much like eyboard which would be more comfortable to use
- Jasmine 7th
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/26/how-would-you-change-sony-ericssons-xperia-play/
SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want it!!!!!!
-Luke 7th
lots of people just get a new phone,but what happens when you break it?????insted of using these "new"phones just use your old one.when you re use a non biodegreadable phone that means you still have a backup when your phone breaks so you dont feel like theres a whole in your soul(hole is spelled wrong i know)-matt,7th
I think that the clear one; the "Window Phone" is pretty cool because for one is clear meaning we could use while nobody is looking ( Like Mrs L (: )and everyone would want one ! you could put a tiny sticker so you won't loose it !
P.S Mrs L stands for Mrs. Looser :D
Jkidding ! (:
Eric M- 7th
me to luke-matt,7th
I love the clear screen cellphone! It's sort of weird that you have to blow on it though. I hate the fold up phone thing. I would totally lose it if it was only like 5 cm.
-Katherine:) 7th
I love the idea of creative, funky phones. However, I dont believe a boidegradable would be the best. The name alone has unreliable, glitchy, and piece of crap written all over it. What if one day you meet the perfect girl in Italy that you were supposed to call and the naxt thimg you know, a fat guy on the plane sits on it. RUINED...
Ross C. - 7
those are kool phones!!!!
-Andrew 8th :D
Ilshat Garipov's "Kambala" I think it's cool cause I like the fact it can pop out. I like the glass on it. Kind of neat. I love phones that are weird and cool at the same time. I dig that phone.
Destiny- 8th Period
I want that see through phone!
Raul 8th
The first one looks like it was mad out of Marijuana.
@ReidPerry14 -8th
The window phone blew my mind. To change the mode you only have to blow on it. How convienient is that!?! It's also very nice and I'd probably lose it easily, but who cares it's still really cool. -Savannah 8th
The biodegradable phone seems like a good and dumb idea. Good because it helps us GO Green! but bad because it doesnt seem very reliable. It seems as if it would fall apart in a small drop or maybe even dissolve on a rainy day.
-Juanita 8th
The packet phone looks very inconvenient because the keyboard is arranged alphabetically and is spread out weird which makes it hard to hold. It's annoying when designers try to change the norm just for the sake of being unique when in the process they sacrifice functionality. There's a reason that QWERTY keyboards were invented.
~Miranda 8th
i think they are tryinq to hard to be really futuristic , we already have new phones so we should just live it like that . some of this phone just look weird period. like that weed phone is just outta there. the see thru p[hone looks like is going to break. i mean they look nice but i wouldnt buy none of them . and tha others are sooo wacck i dont even wanna tawlk about them .
- eli 8th
I think that the biodegradable phone is awesome! People these days go through phones left and right so why not make cell phones earth friendly!? I think it's a great idea!
Kacy-8th
I like the window phone. It has a unique look. It is very different from the rest of the phones out there now.
Rebecca-8
I think that the window phone is the coolest looking one but I do not see how it is possible to get the batery and all the mechanical things in clear materials plus blowing on it would be strange and gross.
the fate phone real to fate is what happen to old house alice kill people dead and live people to have fix make fate real pretty that real cool.
lucas jardon
8prideo
I don't like any of those phones, they look ugly and nasty like the plant phone..
-Diana 7th
The Windows Phone intrests me because it looks new and up to date. But it might be very easy to break or get scratches on.
Seunghan Song's window phone, while an interesting concept, doesn't seem to really be practical.
Firstly, writing with your finger can be difficult. Fingers aren't nearly as small as a stylus, so even if the phone is designed to be able to pick up minute touches, which it would have to be if blowing could change the screen one is on, the words would most likely end up looking odd and annoy whoever is trying to write with needing multiple attempts to get the writing to look neat or at least be legible. Plus it's nearly impossible to write small with such a large tool so you couldn't get much in one screen.
Secondly, the blowing is impractical. If yo can change screens that easily it would be a pain in the butt if you just happened to outside and the wind was blowing, one second you'd be trying to scribble a message to Grandma, the next you're typing that text on facebook. Could get awkward.
Thirdly, it's impossible to have a completely clear phone with our current technology. Metal cannot be clear, folks. It's an intriguing idea, but impossible now.
Fourth, is it weather proof? Because that is the only way that the phone could change to reflect the weather and not die. I mean, how's it supposed to know it's raining without being rained on? And what kind of technology would allow it to change a certain way to the sun or snow or what have you? Also, you could fake it into changing or it'd just randomly change on its own with what stimuli you presented it with. Give it a bunch of florescent light, splash some water, etc. to cause its change.
-Ashley 7th
i agree ashley from 7th very well said
-Miara 1st
I think da clear phone has ten cans of SWAGG!! lmao
D'jarius Williams-1st
I like the window phone the most but it would be nasty to blow on the screen
-Kyn'Teryn M., 1st
Ashley, I looked at the other pictures for the window phone (http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/18/phone-that-shames-the-weather-bureau/) and you don't have to try to write small enough to make it readable, you write a letter at a time and it converts it to a normal text. I know someone who used to have a phone that worked like that and it was fine, not difficult at all to use. Everything else I agree with though, which is sad. I wish it could exist! (and be practical)
-Tobin, 1st
woah tobin that explains it better thanks!
-miara 1st
But now lets talk about the biodegradable phone aka "THE WEED PHONE LOL" now in other places people might think that the phone is a great idea but in nacogdoches texas the police will take you to jail for being in posession of your phone TUTT-1ST
http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/13/the-universal-phone-has-sighted-people-jealous/
wat u guys think of this
miara 1st
http://future-tech-world.blogspot.com/2011/08/unique-nokia-phones-ever-launched.html
Takarya-1st
woah looks like nokia got an upgrade totally love Nokia’s L’Amour Collection! omigosh i want that phone so adorable!
~Miara 1st
Tobin, thank you for correcting my misunderstanding. Was it slower for your friend to be able to send text messages? I would think it would be since you have to write it out and hope that your writing is clear enough for the phone to correctly translate the character. I think that as far as typing and whatnot goes, we'd probably be better off sticking to keyboards just because that's not really open to interpretation since all the letters will always look the same no matter when you use it. Another thing I noticed looking at the other pictures from your link is that the display is hard to see with the weather backgrounds. It seems like the background is actually overlaid onto the words, not behind them. Even if everything else works, they'd most definitely need to rectify that otherwise there would most likely be complaints.
-Ashley 7th
I disagree with anyone who says blowing on the Windows phone is nasty. Because if the iphone game "angry birds" required you to blow on the iphone people would do it no matter what. I like the whole idea of the blowing on the phone. You will only think it's icky if you had Halitosis or something.
D'Ante Riggins-4th
My favorite phone is the soap dish phone because its inconspicious and cool. Its like a spy tool. :)
My favorite phone is the soap dish phone because its inconspicious and cool. Its like a spy tool. :)
Alejandra D. 4th Period
That grass phone looks nasty and i think it will fall apart. The grass phone is gross to look at and probbly touch.
The phone that tobin found looks like the coolest phone i have ever seen. The concept of that phone is something i would love to have.
David R... your crazy..lolls
Meagan McG-4th
Windows Phone Is The Best Hands Down !
Jeron G. 4th Pd.
i like the pop up fone seems nice and little. It can match your skin tone and uhhhh we can be using it in class and they wont even notice it :). i dont see how you could loose it just take care of it or like put something on it so you can know where u left. :)
=)yoana-4th
These phones are unique but they do not seem to meet what many of us in the market would love to have and that is a tablet/laptop that can collapse into a phone, hopefully we will see this in the near future.
Blake 4th
That grass phone looks nasty and i think it will fall apart. The grass phone is gross to look at and probbly touch.
The phone that tobin found looks like the coolest phone i have ever seen. The concept of that phone is something i would love to have.
zach-4
The grass phone is... interesting... but it doesn't look durable enough. A cleaner looking design is in order. Window phone is awesome though!
Brittany, 4th
Everyone is focusing on the look of the phones but its really just an idea that is elaborated. Just like on the runway their fashion is very outrageous and then in the regular world they take the runway ideas and downsize them to fit into real life. I like the degradable phone because its a good idea we need to recycle our old phones to make new ones.
In the looks department i like the small clear glass one its cute. :)
Rhiannon- 5th
This is by far the coolest phone EVER!! i want it .!!
http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/07/21/qwerty-focus/
-Jameika 5th
I think is good that the biodegradeable phone biodegrades but a the same time i dont get how would get a new phone every two 2 years....that would be alot of money....dont you think????
devin 7th period
HEY david-matt/the ceo,7th
I believe that these phones look pretty fancy. Technology is making its way up, but I don't believe its all about the appearance of the phone we should focus on. The appearance is something that is considered in buying a phone. I need to have a phone that looks really nice, but I'm also all about its functionality. Some these phones have new, interesting functions like the phone that turns into an earpiece or the "pop-out" phone that can be easily stored anywhere. Some of the phones such as the "paper wiehgt phone" and the biodegradable phone seem pointless to me. What if i don't want my biodegradable phone anymore? Am i supposed to just throw it away somewhere? I don't get the point of its availability. Also, the paper weight phone seems like a lame phone. Its made of pure glass so one drop can mess up your entire phone.
-Neil 7th
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/05/25/in-2020-we-can-wear-sony-computers-on-our-wrist/
awsome phone-matt,7th
I feel like the superthin phones would be too easy to break. It seems like a good idea, but not a very reliable technology
Trenton B. - 8th
What i think is that yeah they are nice but is way to much like that green phone looks like if you just touch it an it will turn into pieces. i just think that this phones arent much of a good idea.
nelis.. 8th
okaii soo the first phone.... EWWWWW. !!!! who would want that its looks like..... smhh thats all i have to say about that.
the second phone is okaii. the only thing is it's not flat and idkk it seems like it would break if you decided to put it in your back pocket. other than that i loooove the color :)
the third phone is somewhat pretty cause its glass ig.. it reminds me of a soap dish and one of those telephones just like an upgraded version shoo idkk..
the fourth phone. ehhh, no comment on it..
the fifth phone... ohmgoshh tooo legit. i wouldd totally buy that like no play
-Tee 8th
I think that the window phone is the coolest looking one but I do not see how it is possible to get the batery and all the mechanical things in clear materials plus blowing on it would be strange and gross.
sam 8
if u drop will break glass to will lot pay and u need be carful not drop.
lucas
prideo 8
I personally think that the bio-degradable phone is a good concept, but it won’t catch on because of how it looks and it mostly likely break.
On the subject of the Fujitsu’s cell it looks like a paperweight with numbers on it and I personally would not buy it.
The pop up phone looks ok but again I would not buy it mostly I would lose it often and I would break it easily.
The Packet phone is just too much for me I don’t want to continuously keep folding and unfolding my phone for certain things, but it is still a good concept
Finally the Window phone it looks nice but the concept of blowing on it is kind of gross, but besides that it is a nice phone (still won’t buy it).
All in all they are good concepts, but I would not buy any of them.
-Tyler S. -8
Yes he did because the original creator did not intend to do that. Money was not his top priority.It wouldnt work because not everyone is as honest people would probably break the rules.
Huesca-7th
i like the car that has seat warmers because during winter time my butt and back do not have to be cold.
M.Huesca
i like the car that has seat warmers because during winter time my butt and back do not have to be cold.
M.Huesca-7th
http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/08/04/bike-of-prey/
i like the The BMW Ghost because of its awesome design that was inspired in a white owl and it just looks futuristic and classy
m.h 7th
Clear phone is stupid... Now I can't watch porn without anyone seeing it... haha
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