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Would you laugh at me if I asked for your home phone number? I’d bet all my money on the fact that most of you raised your eyebrows, smiling ironically on hearing the name of such an unfamiliar – already – device, even if the times when we were all using isn’t so far off. Despite its wide spreading, the home phone is of long ago forgotten and fell into the collective disgrace.



More and more of us would rather have mobile phones as a means of telecommunications than a house phone which has become a rarity these days. People who move into their homes won’t install a landline since cell phones are way more convenient and cheaper, in some countries, as far as operational costs are concerned.



Zinc Chan, a London-based designer, believes the home phone still has life in it and if not, he’s confident in its capacity of being resuscitated. This is why he came up with this fun and beautiful means to communicate. You can now forget of that complicated associations you had to remember between those pesky numbers and certain people, because Zinc’s design gives you the chance to draw the associated shape of the person you want to call and the phone listens to your desire, calling the certain person. You might recognize in that shape a constellation map, consisting of merely points of light with numeric assignments.



A pretty confusing phone concept, the Icono is based on the internationally recognized “call me” hand gesture made by pouty-mouthed debutants and Hollywood starlets. By capping your thumb and little finger with a D cell-looking microphone and speaker, the Icono converts your hand into a piece of hardware, leaving it stuck in a position that means “call me”.



“The Icono has created a new experience for the telephone, which is a very traditional product. I have based my design on the iconic hand gesture people use to represent the telephone”, the designer explained. “The handset is divided into two parts, earphone and microphone. This invites the user to use the iconic gesture when using the phone. When the user dials the numbers, an animated path is shown on the touchscreen. Therefore, people start to remember the person by their unique pattern rather than the numbers. This, together with two-piece handset creates a more emotional interaction between the phone and the user”, he added.

Another concept device which, as you already presume, might not ever get to see the light of the day.

(Source YankoDesign.com)