An amazing glimpse at the cell phone of tomorrow, via Core 77.
ECCO Design, a NYC based multidisciplinary creative team of designers, researchers, and analysts, has recently completed a cellphone design concept for Popular Science Magazine.
They were asked to visualize the cellphone of tomorrow, incorporating emerging technologies such as micro fuel cells, 3x optical zoom, and streaming video into a sleek, inspired design.
The ECCO team surveyed cellphone product engineers, industry researchers, and lab analysts in order to conjure up a realistic possibility for the soon-to-come super cellphone.
The most impressive feature of the phone is the varied use of fuel cell technology, providing 5 times more talk time per cycle than the existing lithium-ion batteries.
The fuel cells will also enable the pull-out tab used for messaging to have no physical screen by using the cells' byproduct of non-turbulent water vapor released in a continuous stream within the frame. A small projector inside the handset shines images onto the thin layer of vapor.
The phone concept embodies a myriad of hopeful and highly likely future innovations such as an LED-backlit, heat and touch-sensitive keypad and scroll pad interface for navigation, dialing, and messaging.
The phone will have multiple miniature antennas making wi-fi, cellular, and ultra-wideband networks available at the same time.
A software-defined radio will make digital streaming broadband video a hot new feature. A tiny liquid lens with 3x zoom and auto-focus will give handsets true digital camera functionality.
The lens, comprised of an oil and water solution between two glass plates, changes shape and focal length when an electric current is applied.
The phone will also be capable of storing 8 gigabytes of information by 2008 and a mind-boggling 60-gigabyte capacity is expected by 2013.
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