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It’s a slow news day. You gotta love summer.
I came across this video of the BMW GINA concept car. The idea behind this car is that the skin acts more like a malleable cover than a rigid-metallic material that requires all manner of hinges, seams, and joints. You gotta love BMW.
Macenstein mentioned that it would be cool to see this sort of design concept in future MacBook models, and that got me thinking. Would this concept work in the mobile space?
As sleek as handsets like the iPhone and Touch are, the joints and seams inherent to these handsets, nay, all handsets, keep them from attaining a truly clean design. What if handsets were covered in a material similar to what we see in this video. Morphing handsets with LEDs lighting up from beneath the smooth skin – all without any unseemly edges or joints.
Would you buy a handset with virtually no exterior design markings? A sort of blank exterior that can be changed to fit different functions? What if phones adapted to context? I’d buy one.
[Via: Macenstein]
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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