Tag Archive for 'fun'

Easy Tiles S60 concept phone

Published by Stuart Houghton on April 23, 2008 in Handsets. 0 Comments

easy_assemble.jpgIts a shame that we will never see real life versions of many of the concept phone designs that come our way.

Granted, some of them are a bit bonkers or impractical, but others seem like they would be fun - a feature that is often missing from the featureless candybars that many manufacturers keep trying to flog us.

The Easy Tiles S60 Concept phone is definitely in the ‘impractical but fun’ category. Designer Tzu-Fu Wang has taken a little bit of Scrabble, a little bit of Lego, shoved them in a bag with the guts of a Symbian mobile and given them a good shake.
The result is this great looking handset that has replaced the outer shell of the phone with removable tiles. The tiles (which can be any colour or have designs printed on them) are completely interchangeable so if you get bored of one look you can snap them off, give them a shuffle and rebuild.

It certainly beats the old Xpress-on covers for versatility, although you have to wonder what would happen if you dropped it or even answered it a little vigorously.

I could see this appealing to manufacturers too - especially when they realise the money to be made in selling extra tiles.



Motion sensitive remote control cars with Nokia N95

Published by Stuart Houghton on December 14, 2007 in Other stuff and Video clips. 0 Comments

Sheath the Lightsabre, tell Activity Monitor to take a walk.  The real future of phone-waggling applications is here - a motion sensitive controller for a radio controlled car.

ShakerRacer claims to make use of the natural instinct to ‘lean into the turn’ that you get when you play a driving game or use an RC car.  In practice it looks like playing one of the several driving/skating games available for the Nintendo Wii - you use the phone as if it were the steering wheel and tilt it in the direction you want to go.

Ok, its not an actual product that you can buy or even download (yet) and you do need a specially-modded car with a Bluetooth adaptor attached to the RC unit but just watch the video below and then say that it doesn’t look like great fun.

Seriously, Nokia are missing a trick if they don’t bring out their own range of branded cars…