Jun 22 2007Quartz Telephone
From the designer's site:
The number keys are like pieces of pretty quartz crystal (with LED light at the bottom). Once pressed, the key will shine like brilliant jewel. The super large screen, the perfect display of incoming call, and such functions as calendar, phone book and super luxurious speaker phone all add up to the great enjoyment of the home phone luxury.
I believe it's just a concept, but that's one of the most stunning phones I've ever seen. It looks like it'd break at the touch, but the two hours you get to spend looking at it before it does would be totally worth it.
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Reader Comments
1. P Clancey - June 22, 2007 7:28 PM
Practicality? Imagine chunks of bologna sandwich and stray pieces of popcorn stuck between the keys.
2. JapaneseGirl - June 22, 2007 8:01 PM
Another Clock.....
3. JapaneseGirl - June 22, 2007 8:01 PM
My bad that's a telephone.... DUH...
4. Vink - June 22, 2007 8:15 PM
for the USA version, the '9' and '1' keys should be modeled after the Twin Towers. The receiver should be an airplane.
thank you
5. SuperStoned420 - June 22, 2007 8:34 PM
a humans pathetic attempt at re-creating phones from Krypton.
6. JonJon - June 22, 2007 9:00 PM
where's dill?
7. Diablo - June 22, 2007 9:23 PM
So I sent them you Kal-el, My only son....
8. Brennan - June 23, 2007 12:55 AM
I'm quite sure this is useless, along with everything else in his portfolio. I hate designers.
9. Sid - June 23, 2007 1:38 AM
I'd like to see this made of dildos.
10. CAPITALLETTERS - June 23, 2007 6:25 AM
It doesn't have a nought?
11. BobTheMul - June 23, 2007 10:59 AM
L = 4
C = 0
Japanese have a superstition about 4 and Death.
I have a fear of 0 ever appearing in my bank statement.
This designer is just trying to please everyone.... like Halo gamers who will strap the phone to their wrists and pretend it's a needle gun.. pyow, pyow!
12. Bobert - June 23, 2007 4:59 PM
I think #9 is the Dark Crystal
13. fruitdioxide - June 23, 2007 8:06 PM
I can barely read the numbers on this thing. o.O
14. supercheese - June 23, 2007 9:08 PM
looks like some one assembled the 12 dark crystals of power and made them into a phone. bravo
15. Pastor Al - June 23, 2007 10:29 PM
Though said before, I agree... this looks like it belongs in Superman's Cave of Seclusion... Dome of Silence... uh... Quiet Place?...
PS - Guess who moved to OTTAWA!!! I'm back in the promised land, baby!
16. slurp9562 - June 24, 2007 10:45 AM
It's nice!
17. Thinkhouse - June 24, 2007 12:43 PM
its looks like it could be a weapon
18. RACHEL! - June 24, 2007 12:54 PM
looks like they modeled the numbers after the tetris game pieces... and did it very very badly
19. Brendon - June 25, 2007 9:55 AM
What in the hell is a "super luxurious speaker phone"? Does it spit money at me? Or better yet, does it not spit but swallow?
20. Tim - June 25, 2007 10:18 AM
where the hell is the "0" on this phone... I couldn't even call myself
21. Shawn - June 25, 2007 3:36 PM
I'm terribly worried about the lever effect. I barely look at the keys when I dial now and unless those crystals are welded to the base, they are going to shatter like shrapnel and cut me as I fumble with lotion and tissues.
And if they are welded, they don't move so it's just another sharp table item that will one day kill me when I fall onto. Damn you Bed, Bath and Beyond. Damn you to hell!
22. Og - June 26, 2007 12:43 AM
Be weary Superfriends. The green ones are poisonous.