Yugo Nakamura and his team developed the eye-project website for the Japanese telecom company KDDI. It looks quite similar to the Experience Uniqlo Explorer but this time it’s all about user-generated content. Yay!
They developed a server-side video generating system to which the users can upload videos, photos or capture webcam input. The outcome is a video-pixel-style content browser. You have to love those sounds on Japanese websites.
Media Skin is an other mobile phone by KDDI. I can’t tell you anything more than that the Media Skin looks slick as I don’t speak Japanese.
(You have to scroll horizontally in the pop up window.)
Speaking of mobiles phones, KDDI (a japanese brand) always had hot phones like Marc Newsons Talby. Now there’s a new sexy one … neon, everything looked good till I reached the Functions&Specs page. What a let down. First they tease you with some apple like design and when you look at it from other sides you get an ordinary pc laptops bottom.
The Motofone is the first Motorola phone that appeals to me, I won’t buy it though … still waiting for that iPhone. Anyway the promo site for it is quite interesting while the designers explain the features and the decisions they have made. The flash work by the web designers is on par with the phone.
If you’re an international hip-hop star and you have the spare money to get a new mobile phone, do not look any further, GoldVish is your brand!
Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone.
Pjotro – The man with the musical suit, is a new microsite from Nokia. Basically you can configure Pjotro’s dance moves and generate a mobile ringtone.
Timo Arnall modified his desk … just a little.
Underneath the desk I have stuck a grid of RFID tags, and on the top surface, the same grid of post-it notes. With the standard Nokia Service Discovery application it is possible to call people, send pre-defined SMSes or load URLs by touching the phone to each post-it on the desk. On the post-its themselves I have hand-written the function, message and the recipient. This is somewhat like a cross between a phone-book, to-do list and temporary diary, with notes, scribbles and tea stains alongside names.
Again some hardware hacking.
I find myself talking about nerd things with my friends and peers who could usually careless. Every once and a while, someone who really doesn’t have a clue, says something so crazy, it makes you take a step back. I can’t remember who had the idea of a rotary cell phone – needless to say it had something to do with quite a few rum and cokes. They didn’t have a clue how to do it, they just thought it would be cool. So did I…
Port-O-Rotary is much better as Hulger.
Engadget has his own guide.
The entire surface of the diminutive phone is an LCD display, which, of course, means it can change its function, from keypad to caller ID screen to playlist, at any time. And since this is a concept phone, why not get totally crazy: it includes an induction-charged battery. Just put the phone down on a special pad, and it’ll suck up the juice.
