Cell Phones Of The Future

From a simple communication device not much different than the walkie-talkies of World War II and Korea, the cell phone has now become an organizer, a radio, an Internet tool, an e-mail device, a camera, a TV and a game console. What could possibly come next? What will we be carrying in say, the year 2015?

According to design students – commissioned by cellphone maker Nokia – it will bear little resemblance to the device you now have.

The students, studying at the St. Martin’s College of Art And Design in the U.K., have come up with some radical ideas – one of which includes a credit-card shaped handset that you’d wear around your neck and a phone that would do double-duty as  sunglasses.

Are they practical?  According to course director Ben Hughes, the answer is yes – quite possibly.  Prior to designing their futuristic phones, the students were required to study technical issues such as predicted cellphone bandwidth and memory capacity.

If history is any indicator, chances are great that the cell phones of the future will be more than these – and something we can’t even imagine right now.  In any case, what more can we ask of these marvelous miniature mechanisms? Fax-copier capability?

Via New Scientist

From a simple communication device not much different than the walkie-talkies of World War II and Korea, the cell phone has now become an organizer, a radio, an Internet tool, an e-mail device, a camera, a TV and a game console. What could possibly come next? What will we be carrying in say, the year 2015?

According to design students – commissioned by cellphone maker Nokia – it will bear little resemblance to the device you now have.

The students, studying at the St. Martin’s College of Art And Design in the U.K., have come up with some radical ideas – one of which includes a credit-card shaped handset that you’d wear around your neck and a phone that would do double-duty as  sunglasses.

Are they practical?  According to course director Ben Hughes, the answer is yes – quite possibly.  Prior to designing their futuristic phones, the students were required to study technical issues such as predicted cellphone bandwidth and memory capacity.

If history is any indicator, chances are great that the cell phones of the future will be more than these – and something we can’t even imagine right now.  In any case, what more can we ask of these marvelous miniature mechanisms? Fax-copier capability?

Via New Scientist