Jan 29 2008NEC Flask Phones Contain Delicious Fuel
Want a see-through phone? Do you want it to run on liquid fuel? Do you want it available in a variety of pastel colors to suit your wardrobe? If so then NEC has the phone for you. Introducing the Flask Cell Phone! Featuring a transparent design with a touchscreen surface on one side, you can monitor your fuel usage (speculatively ethanol) by how much liquid is remaining in the device. When it runs out your phone won't work anymore, simple as that. NEC says they'll be shipping out sometime this year, so we'll see what happens. I'll be first in line, I don't care if the damn thing is pink. They claim the contents aren't for human consumption, but I know better than that. They just have to say that to keep the lightweights from drinking all that good cell phone juice inside. It'll f*** you up! No seriously, it will. For life.
A picture of the front of the phones after the jumparoo.
NEC reveals Flask Cell Phones, running on fuel cells and pure beauty [dvice]
Reader Comments
1. damn luddites - January 29, 2008 4:15 PM
big deal. I attached my cell phone to a real flask (full of Jamesons) with a rubber band. I'm thinking of gluing my cell phone to it as well. Top that NEC!
2. damn luddites - January 29, 2008 4:16 PM
that was meant to be "gluing my OTHER cell phone to it as well". would make more sense if I could type. Damn you Jamesons!!!!
3. JustBuzzed - January 29, 2008 6:12 PM
I guess it's cool, but I've had a phone snap in my pocket. I could see this as a pay -as-you-go thing, but not for a subscription. How long do they last? I guess it could be used as a survival phone too if it doesn't use fuel while it's off.
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4. Lindsay - January 29, 2008 11:46 PM
I really think it's dumb. Try dialing in the sun with that betch. Or even at night. Or anytime really.
5. Bullshit in T3 Magazine Repeated by ChipChick - January 30, 2008 3:17 AM
If you'd bothered to track-back the Vias, you would know that ChipChick copied this out of a January 2008 T3 magazine. Yay for data entry clerks posing as writers (AntiClown)!
This:
http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage4735.html
Shows that it was a CONCEPT NEC brought up at CeBIT in March 2006,
NOT a product (with no details or carriers) for Summer 2008.
6. whistle - January 30, 2008 7:41 AM
@5 You mean every single organization that develops a new product or creates a prototype doesn't immediately contact geekologie for publication?
Wow, you are right, this site is lame...
7. kelsi - January 30, 2008 12:25 PM
#5 You're stupid shut it!!!
8. poop - February 1, 2008 5:17 AM
so, if i get a hard-on and puncture this item, it's gonna f*** me up for life? as in it'll all soak in to my nuts and make my children ask me for money like ten times a day? GAHH!!! it's a nightmare! the humanity!
9. I'm number 5 - February 2, 2008 12:00 AM
gah...I HATE all people named Kelsi......NOOOOOO!!!
10. Incredulous - February 3, 2008 8:46 AM
@3 Er, how did you snap a phone in your pocket? I mean sure, it's physically possible, but what activity could have lead to that? I can only think of...ohhhhhhh. Nice! Or maybe it was....damn!
They could turn these things into giant lighters. You could combined two annoying activities into the one device - smoking and yabbering away on a cell. Convergence!!!
11. sarah - February 20, 2009 11:30 AM
I WANT ONE.
how do you order one of these beasts