May 22 2008 OLED Phone Will Stick Out Of Your Pocket
That is one looong phone. It certainly brings new meaning to the phrase "long distance calling" doesn't it? No, it doesn't, and that didn't make any freaking sense. If you thought it did you should see someone. Like me -- I love crazy people. So what we have here is the "NEED", a two OLED touchscreen phone by designer Tamer Koseli, whose aim was a "no frills" design.
He argues mobile phones are basic multimedia gadgets, far from their traditional aim of communication. He wanted to create a device with no superfluous features. That's right, you won't find a MP3 player, video capabilities, or even a camera.
Now call me an evil genius, but I'm pretty sure having two OLED touchscreens isn't a "no frills" feature. Honestly, that shit is frilly as hell. I mean, you write the damn number you want to call and it dials it? I think that's a little more superfluous than, oh I don't know, punching numbered buttons. That said, what in the hell kind of number is D544 B7B 3...? Do you think it's one of those phone sex things? I love those. I don't even need to talk to a real person, the automated part at the beginning is enough for me.
A bunch more pictures of the thing after the ring-a-ling-a-ding-dong. God I need help.
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Mar 13 2008 Optimus Mini 3 3.0 Keypad From Art Lebedev
Art Lebedev is now working on a follow up to the (popular?) Optimus Mini 3 keypad, the illegitimate little sister of the Optimus Maximus Keyboard. Just like its much bigger brother, the Mini has dynamic OLED buttons that can be changed according to the needs of your presentation. Updates from 2.0 include wirelessness (the other one wasn't?) and possibly some AC power. Now this is neat an all, but I think it's about time a company put something actually useful into a presentation clicker. You're thinking what I'm thinking aren't you? Hell yeah -- a powerful burning laser beam! That way when the ass-clowns in the back of the meeting start monkeying around during a lull in your Powerpoint you can kill them -- with your clicker! I think this is really going to take multimedia presentations to a whole new level. That level being, uh, laserly homicide.
NOTE: The Powerful Burning Laser Beam Presentation Clicker (Of Death) is a registered trademark of the Geekologie Writer. No unauthorized use of the product name or idea without prior written consent. Patent pending.
Optimus Mini 3 Keypad brings the 'wow' back to gadgets [dvice]
Jan 22 2008 Seal The Deal With A Gadget: The iRing
Victor Soto, an artist, came up with the idea for iRings. "The band acts as a touch-sensitive function strip. Swipe your finger across the band to control media playback and volume." While only conceptual, the device would feature an OLED display, a two day battery life, and another reason for people to avoid human relationships. Who needs a woman/man anyways when you can marry an, um, iSomething? Sure it would still be better than my marriage, but so would getting hit by a car. Which is why I always go for the mail blindfolded.
Hit the jump for a graphical representation of the controls, along with a picture of me modeling the ring.
Dec 28 2007 OLED "Star" Watch, Looks Good, I Want One
The OLED TIWE (like TIME, but with the M upside down!) watch by industrial designer Lv Zhogfang is a neat concept. It normally displays a bunch of little white balls ("stars") randomly floating around the face. But when you give it a shake or tap on the glass, PRESTO! -- the balls come together to show the time! While still in the early stages of development, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to manufacture. And if they're not too expensive I'd get one. It's definitely a step up from the "shake activated" watch I have now. When you shake mine the minute and hour hands come off and float around inside. It would be cool if that was supposed to happen, but it's not. Stupid Folex.
oled watch: my god, it's full of stars [technabob]
thanks to Jenny, who I'm sure is hot as hell, for the tip
