May 05 2008
SteamPunk Phone
Posted by: Sierra in Concepts

We’ve discovered it on Concept Phones and found that it is a cell phone concept created for O2 telecommunication company by Arthur Schmitt, a designer from UK, Marek Bereza and Andy Broomfiels, who described it as a model dedicated to Role Playing Gamers.


In order to be able to use the phone you have to insert a paper punchcard with the contact number encoded in binary. The other functionality is the clock.
A credit card sized punchcard has the contact’s number encoded in binary and the VUmeters are in charge with displaying the network coverage and the battery status. Same encoding methods ca be applied to other phone settings.


As you already guessed, SteamPunk phone doesn’t have a display but just the basic phone functionalities: phone, clock, speaker, mic, and alarm.
What do you think?






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