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Remade is an interesting concept and now let’s see what the new Nokia cell phone concept is all about. It’s called Nokia Eco Sensor and it’s all a green design. It works together with a sensing device companion and it allows the users of such handhelds to share environmental information collected by the phone.

The sensor is wearable on the neck or wrist and can observe the environment changes, your health, as well as local weather conditions, while with the cell phone connects to it via the Near Field Communication technology using touch input.

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Eco Sensor is customizable with green tools so you can choose between a heart-rate monitor, motion detector for walking, and others.
It could analyze the gas level in the air, ultraviolet radiation, noise level, air pressure, humidity level and temperature.



What would a green phone be made of? It would include printed electronics like conductive inks on plastic, polyactic acid plastics with plant modifiers, elastomers, and recycled steel for the entire casing.



Eco Sensor would be powered by solar energy, heat energy from the user’s arm or kinetic, as much as it needs because the sensing device could be self-powered eliminating the need for external sources.
For the display Nokia could use electrowetting, a next-generation technology consisting of applying electrical voltage to tiny drops of oil, which leads to the expanding and contracting of droplets, so the display will turn On or Off, similar with the pixel lighting process.

Nokia designers and researchers teams try to stimulate the industry to produce environmental-friendly devices and the Eco Sensor is just an example of what green design could become.

BloodRabbit finished his latest cell phone design concept and posted it yesterday on Product Design Forums. It is about a Nokia cell phone bringing a new display concept capable of changing its shape.



The project ShapeShift is a cool idea that could be realized using a similar method with the way ice cubes are shaped in the bag from your fridge, meaning that in that closed space from this bag, the shape is clearly predetermined. Instead of using colors on a screen with pixels, Nokia ShapeShift would have a preset form and would be made of 2 plastic layers, one would be flexible and the second one would be a hard material, while between these layers would be a special liquid characterized by the same refraction and the plastic. When more liquid is puched between the 2 layers, the preset buttons shapes form on the surface.

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BloodRabbit imagines this cell phone measuring 11 x 5,5 x 1,2 cm at 125 grams and with a 4-inch display.

<-234x60 Half Banner - left->Need is a cool cell phone concept designed by Tamerkoseli, who wanted to stick to the basic idea of a phone’s main functionality: to make and receive calls.



He didn’t want to add all the multimedia features that high-end models come with and so he designed a 2 x 14 x 0.5 cm concept with one display for touch-sensitive input and a secondary OLED display for customization.



Unlike other complex cell phone concepts, this one seems to be possible to be realized as it adopts existent technologies and doesn’t want to compress futuristic capabilities.
It is just a band, very light, easy to carry and easy to talk on.

(Seen on Go4IT)

Designed by Christina Droira and her colleagues at the University of Cincinnati, for the Samsung's Global Sponsored Project, the Intouch cell phone concept was presented in Korea at the Samsung Corporate Headquarters.



The idea from which the team started was that most young professionals don’t use PDAs or Smartphones as these don’t meet all their requirements so the students had to come out with something new based on the sub-vocal speech technology developed at NASA. This technology is meant to improve the communication between astronauts in space, by using sensors that analyze communication from people’s throat.
At the neck level would be placed a piece designed to read speech nerve signals, while the ear part would be in charge of hearing convo.

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They called this complex device the Intouch because it focuses on communication, consisting of 3 parts: the phone, the directional sound Bluetooth ear cuff and the neck piece with adjustable magnetic enclosure and subvocal speech neuron detector, giving the user the possibility to use normal phone communication too.

For the cell phone, the designers wanted a fast glance screen on top, a modes button, a large wrapping LCD display, a super molded keyboard, the ear cuff spring loaded space, thumbprint security scanner, touch command surface and an integrated chip.

Engadget has published information about one of Nokia’s main design contractors, the Finish company Provoke Design, which has unveiled three new cell phone concepts, maybe the coolest models I’ve ever seen!

Representing the company’s view of the 2012 generation cell phones, Express, Fell and Share are different fully-functional prototypes with unique design and features, which can amaze anybody.

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They will be presented at HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition starting May 17 during New York Design Week 2008.



Express concept’s color, visual contrast between states and other characteristics can be changes electronically and the user can customize the cell phone look anytime.



Feel is a pair of two mobile phones dedicated to couples, featuring a special user interface and tactile touch simulation, while Share is rich in communication functionalities and inspired by skateboarders fashion. With Share, the users can geotag content and share media with other group members.