Squeezable and Huggable Cellphone Design
19 Comments By Eran Abramson on February 26th, 2008 in Cellphones
Our phones take a beating practically everyday. They may look shiny, cool, and innovative, but they cannot take a punch. We need a combination of the cool looks and durability.
Qian Jiang has designed the Soft Phone concept and at least gave us the durability part. It may not look like all the new, technologically advanced cellphones out there, but the features may be enough to intrigue customers.
The Soft phone is as it sounds: a cellphone that is made of fabric and silicon, allowing it to live through a fall or intentional drop. In fact, this phone asks you to squeeze and hug it, since it is created with that in mind. Moreover, you can make a call or hang up by the level of squeeze you give this cellphone.
In case you want more features, this cell is built within a pouch like home. It reminds me of the vehicle dashboard sun protectors. If you are familiar with the ones that are made of fabric and silicon that arrive as a small circular shape, only to unfold to a larger dashboard protector… a very space efficient product. With that, the soft phone provides such practicality: as you unfold the pouch, a qwerty keyboard is provided, along with build in earphones.
This idea may be great as a concept, but could you see yourself actually using one of these? If you would or wouldn’t, is it because of its looks, its material, or something else?
Via: Yanko Design
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February 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Did I miss something, or would you have a rather difficult time scrolling through your phonebook?
February 27th, 2008 at 1:29 am
the concept may be fresh and it does look okay …
but i dont think i will ever wanna use it …
sorry …
February 27th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Neat product.. I’ll take 2
February 27th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Squeeze me… Is this for real? Just when I came to the conclusion I would never find the perfect phone. never say never. This is really cool..
February 27th, 2008 at 3:58 am
This is a cool phone, we should sell a million!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:30 am
we would love to buy these to sell!
February 27th, 2008 at 5:16 am
stupid.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:43 am
yanko always have good concepts
February 27th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Comment removed due to racist remarks. Please refer to comment #13
February 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am
yeah imagine that, a phone that is only a phone… wanna email? buy a computer. but its nice to see that racism is still alive and well
February 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The phone’s got an interesting design. I wouldn’t use it, though.
@#9: That’s a clever name, did you come up with that all by yourself? You could’ve at least used used “you’re” and made your poorly spelled, non-capitalized, fragmented sentence-having bullshit rant just that much better. Well, at least you capitalized “English”.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:22 am
#11: “used used” lol
February 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
To all our readers and visitors: although we encourage comments and feedback, we needed to remove an earlier comment due to its racist nature. We apologize if any feelings were hurt by it and hope to see you again
March 4th, 2008 at 10:35 am
it looks like on of those burger phones girls like.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
welcome to http://www.coroflot.com/jq
March 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Hello Jiang,
Thank you for the link…post was updated.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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September 30th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
this is what the future is made of……..stuff that knows no limits..well in!
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