Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a transparent mobile phone.
Called X-RAY, the design was created for telecommunications company KDDI and will be on show KDDI Designing Studio in Tokyo from 19 October.
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Here's a little text from the designer:
X-RAY for KDDI iida by Tokujin Yoshioka
Apart from arranging visual appearance, I have pondered a design without a shape. This collaboration project started with an enthusiasm of designing a new mobile phone that infuses a fresh, striking idea into today's diversified mobile designs. I came to reach an idea of "designing from inside."
X-RAY is a brand new proposal of a mobile phone with its beautiful transparency and deep texture made by using a special material.
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and the next level is a OLED screen … http://www.prodlab.com/forschung/material/led/res…
Plastic Fantastic! I like.
exciting approach. Puzzling why Tokujin Yoshioka just shows one side (also on his website) – makes you wonder whether he was unhappy with the inside and the back?
Anyway, full gallery can be found here http://iida.jp/products/x-ray/gallery/
it looks more like a digital name tag..
the full gallery shows how boring the inside of the phone is. I thought at first the red LEDs were the primary display, but they're not. missed opportunity
the last thing the world needs is another mobile phone design
You make my heart beat faster, seriously.
When I saw this I thought: "What is so great about this? The idea is taken straight from the Game Boy or Apple's original iMacs." But then I cannot really criticise him like that. Perhaps it is just an effect he has always liked and he thought it was timely and fitting to apply it to a mobile phone.
And mind you, he does say that the project only started with an enthusiasm of designing a new mobile phone that infuses a fresh, striking idea, not that the solution infuses a fresh, striking idea. So perhaps it is only fair to not be so critical, but those words do sounds awfully wanky for what is really a fairly uninspired outcome.
well and again they rock…
like tis one: http://www.au.kddi.com/english/au_design_project/
still want one of those!
was never really available, so I hope the posted one here is now on the market, but I assume it is not working in Europe? Only Japan…
I look at KDDI and wonder what the hell happened to the Sony brand..
i don't know about the phone, but the stand is pretty cool
what felix said – 100% – this. is. ordinary.
The stand looks transparent indeed
This is transparently a gimmick.