I’m sorry the LomoKino camera only lets you capture retro 35 mm movies while forgetting to offer you an easy way to share those creations, and I believe the Lomography Company feels sorry too – thus it launched a smartphone adapter that lets you digitize your flicks. Simply attach the adapter onto your smartphone, connect it to the LomoKino (with films inside), get the LomoKino to work and record the videos as they’re played, and then you can restore your retro movies on your cellphone.

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What can one AA battery do? Although there’re many answers to that question, the most surprising one in fact comes from the Las Vegas’ CES, during which XPAL Power launched its SpareOne mobile phone and announced that the SpareOne can work for 15 years simply relying on one AA battery. The compact cellphone is mainly designed for phone calls, thus it doesn’t come with so many functions as other mobiles do. But that on the other hand makes it really ideal and suitable for outdoor adventurists who want to stay in contact, but without the worry of losing a more valuable device.

Designer: XPAL Power

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It is bothersome that we are always disturbed by some unnecessary SMS and phone calls during work and driving. Now, these MIAmobi Cases and Bags can help to save you out of the trouble. Its interior is covered with colloidal silver, which can not only block the radio signal to/from you cellphone completely but also disinfect the cellphone. There are available in various sizes to fit for most cellphones and tablets.

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Despite smartphones’ outstanding functions and large screens, perhaps you still find it not exciting enough to watch films or play games with them? Yes, we all need a device with larger screen, such as the LightPad developed by QP Optoelectronics. It’s a folio-styled peripheral that combines a keyboard with an 11-inch rear projection screen. Once connected to your smartphone, the device’s built-in projector can then light up the screen with a resolution of 854 x 480 (the first generation) or 1280 x 720 resolution (the second generation), offering you a more fantastic experience with larger screens. If that’s still not big enough, the device can even create a 60-inch display on the wall with its built-in projector flipped around. So do you like it? The LightPad is expected to be exhibited next month at CES 2012.

Designer: QP Optoelectronics

Sharp’s 12.1-Megapixel, 1/3.2-inch CMOS camera module is rightly what many cellphone manufacturers are waiting for, as it would help to create slender designs in the future. Announced to be the world’s thinnest CMOS module, the device is merely 5.47 mm in height while supports full HD (1080p) video capture and also high-level optical image stabilization. Sample shipments will begin from December 2, 2011 and volume shipment from January 10, 2012.

You don’t have a Windows Phone?! Hmm, apparently the Microsoft Company thought you should have been using their products and they unveiled a 55 feet high Windows Phone at NYC’s Herald Square recently, to let you know and use their products. It is announced “the World’s Largest Windows Phone”, comprised of control rooms, display stages and decorative tiles too. Whenever the phone is demonstrating its perfect functions such as music or game, several people would then appear on the stage and offer a live show. Really impressive, how I wish I could be there!

Round, square, cloud, hand or water drop, although the appearances of cellphone holder keeps changing all the time, almost all the holders are using magnets, grippers, catches or a ledge to hold the cellphone in place. Except for the Gravity Mobile Phone Holder. Quite specially, the “What?Gravity” mobile phone holder features a soft-touch silicone panel to grip your cellphone. Seemingly it defies the gravity, hence its name.

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On the Good Design Expo in Tokyo, Japan-based Docomo company built a giant screen to introduce their latest Palette UI interface, something that would improve the navigation between each app on your cellphones by assorting your softwares. Still, the Palette UI is really fantastic, because it would attract butterflies, numbers, and other elements into a cellphone and changes then into colorful stripes. To understand how great the Palette UI is, please check out the video below for more information.

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Guess what, you can control your Canon EOS DSLR with your phone or tablet via a USB cable! It is not a conceptual design but real product on market. With only￥54.62, you’ll easily change the way you take photos.

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Researchers from Queen’s University in Kingston have invented a thinnest cellphone we’ve ever met. It looks no thinner than a credit card and features a good flexibility that allows the users to bend it in various ways. Moreover, as you bend it, you’re actually controlling the phone: making a corner to bookmark a page or flipping the corner to get a new page. Really amazing and possibly such “bend gestures” method will be an overwhelming trend of the future too.

Japan often brings us with new telecom products and concepts and this time some designers from this eastern country have come up with a prototype that resembles a human body.

It is a collaborative work between Osaka University, the mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo and other institutes. Via such a design, the researchers aim to make “the mobile phone feel like the person you are talking to” and they proudly described their gadget as a “revolutionary telecom medium”. It is indeed innovative, coming with an outer coating that feels like human skin, installed with a microphone in the head, and featuring a light-emitting chest that will change its color when in different modes. According to the researchers, this cellphone may come into commercial production.

Designer: Takashi Minato @ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)

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Simple but practical cellphones will always easily find their supporters and consumers… especially when they’re endowed with easy-to-use big buttons, built-in sound amplifier, long-lasting battery and a personal emergency response system. But that’s not all, as these smart cellphones are also available in many colors, for $89.99 on the Just5!

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Celsius X VI II treasures every moment as much as you do. That’s why the French company designed and built mechanical cellphone, a $300,000 device that combines a transparent cellphone with a delicate mechanical watch.

“We want to take the useful functions of the cell phone and try to re-think them, and re-create them in a mechanical way,” Celsius co-founder Alejandro Ricart explained. Thus the mechanical cellphone is believed to make much more sense than ordinary mobiles because it also doubles as a timepiece.

Anyone interested in the mechanical cellphone is suggested to take his/her chance since there’re only 46 pieces all over the world. Be sure not to miss it.

Designer: Celsius X VI II

With this smart cellphone jammer in a cigarette pack, you can easily keep away from annoying signals of GSM, DCS, PHS, and 3G and therefore to make yourself a leisure space in the busy and noisy world.

【Main Specifications】

·Isolation Signal Frequency

-GSM: 925-960 MHz

-3G: 2100-2170 MHz

-DCS/PHS: 1800-1930 MHz

·Radius: About 10m

·Dimensions: 80 x 45 x 20mm (L x W x D)

【Selling Price】 $46.02

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My only true love for cellphones always happens at my first sight, so mobiles with an interesting appearance generally attract me more than those with a hi-tech element. Therefore these cute sets of cell phones have really impressed me and I’d like to have all of them. Look, the unique charging and docking systems have made the phones look like going fishing, walking its dog or lying in bed… So you even couldn’t help smiling when seeing them, isn’t that fantastic?!

Designer: Stefano Giovannoni, Marcel Wanders & Patricia Urquiola Foralessi（Italian）& Iida（Japanese）

What do you usually do when you cannot find the cellphone? Ask someone around you for another phone to call it? Hey guys, you wouldn’t always find a person, however you can always find the www.icantfindmyphone.com for help.

Designed to help people find their phones, the interesting website will connect you to your phone when you key in your mobile phone number and as a result you can easily find the phone in a certain room. Too bad that your phone cannot say to you by itself, so you still need to call the police for help if you’ve forgotten where you lost the cellphone.

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Taking the mobile designs to a new altitude, Tokujin Yoshioka has created a new cellphone that goes apt to its name “X-Ray”. Not only the name is apt, in fact the unique cellphone is really transparent that allows the users to see through to check out the inner parts. Though it’s only a concept at present, the X-Ray has already been on display at KDDI Designing Studio in Tokyo from 19 October.

Designer: Tokujin Yoshioka

Now the winter is approaching in many countries around the world and we think it is right time to introduce some smart items that can keep you warm. And today you’ll see a convenient padding designed by Robert Potter for your ears. Whenever hooked onto cell phones, the Earos will then protect your ears from the screens and therefore ensure you a comfortable chatting. That sounds so sweet.

Designer: Robert Potter

Nokia never ceases to surprise us and recently the famous brand announced the Nokia E-Cu concept phone, a new mobile designed by Patrick Hyland that can convert body heat into electric energy using a copper exterior and a thermo-generator integrated interior. That means you’ll never need to take along a charger with you when the concept cell phones come into real ones one day, and hopefully we needn’t have to wait for too long a time.

What could also control your cellphones except for you fingers and sound? Right here the XWave headset gives us an exciting answer: your mind. After having picked up tiny electrical signals that change along with your thoughts, the XWave then turns them into signals that can control your phone. But will you be able to control others’ iPhones when wearing the headset? I am much more concerned to know that.

The headset can work with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, wearing a price tag of $100.

Cellphone designers and manufacturers have never ceased to amaze us, and recently Du Jun has created a concept Sony Ericsson FH Mobile Phone that features a turning point. Just based on that design, FH’s dual screens can be rotated sideways to create a wide screen display for media viewing and web browsing. The phone can also serve as an intercom when split into two, which allow instant communication via Bluetooth connectivity.

Designer: Du Jun

Researchers at Nokia Research Center unveiled the ‘Mobile Radar’ during “Demo House 2010″. Using the same technology adopted by the police to give you a ticket for speeding, the device could measure an object’s distance, speed and direction. Therefore, you can control your cellphone via simple gestures without touching it. For example, you only need to wave your hands in front of your phone if you want to adjust its music player’s volume. Check out the video below to see how the ‘Mobile Radar’ is used.

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Visual Sound is an innovative mobile phone especially designed for the impaired person. Allowing the deaf folks to communicate with others, the device could convert voice input to text and show it on the touch screen display. Moreover, Visual Sound also converts text input to voice so that the person on the other end of the phone could be well informed. The phone comprises three parts, including two handy pillars on both sides and a roll-out display.

Designer: Suhyun Kim

It is good to preview what the world would be like 10 or 20 years later, and all that is founded on the development of technology. But imaginations go faster, and the Pen Concept Mobile Phone here just gives us a chance to know what our cellular phones look like in the future.

It is comprised of three pens that act as the keyboard of the handset and a stretchable touch panel (which works as a display) hidden between two pens. Although one of the three pens could be used independently to write on the display, almost everything is based on voice control.

We’re not sure when it is available, but if you’ve been looking for a similar phone like this, then the Pen Concept Mobile Phone is rightly the one for you. Leave your comments below if you think it is a cool-looking cellular phones.

Designer: Tirshathah Hunter

The conceptual cellphone from Nokia is achieved by a young Chinese designer, Daizi Zheng. Different from usual mobiles powered by lithium battery, the eco-friendly phone adopts bio battery (which generates electricity from carbohydrates) as the power source. Therefore you only need to buy a can of cola to power your phone when the battery dies out, and claimed by Daizi Zheng, “Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries”. So it would be nice to see this practical concept hit the marketplace soon.

Designer: Daizi Zheng

Are you looking for something different and personalized? Having a look at the ‘Solar Powered Sticker Phone’ presented here on I New Idea? Wow, you’re now different, huh? For phone users who are seeking for an eco-friendly product, the arch-shaped phone may be a perfect choice. No longer needing electric outlets, just stick the phone onto the window glass and then it will get charged in the sunshine.

Designer: Liu Hsiang-Ling

Do you also have a dream that you could easily deposit checks in your cell phones? Well, the ATM supplier NCR Co. and the Mitek Systems Co. which majoring in moving-images have cooperated to make it come true. As long as you have a cell phone camera of two-million pixels, it’s rather convenient to deposit your checks into certain accounts by taking photos of them.

Do you still remember the Bear Phone? Similarly, this V588 mobile phone is also specifically designed for girls. Its design inspiration derives from the foundation box, and a 2.6-inch screen is equipped in the place originally for the puff. Besides the basic communication function, it can also play MP3\MP4 files, which is equipped with a speaker, a Bluetooth and a video-recording camera as well. Meantime, the diamond-studded surface of the foundation box may make it possible to win more affection from the female. However, why does it look more like a copycat?

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This is a new design from RIM, the BlackBerry manufacture. They Qwerty keyboard is hidden under two wings. When not in use, you can just use a normal keypad.

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Wind chime and cellphone seems to be unrelated to each other. NO! This chine is definitely related to your cellphone. It will tell you with the charm ringtone every time you have a call.

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Designer: Lufdesign

iPhone is very popular, but the text imputing is really horrible. Maybe a sliding Qwerty keyboard is a good solution, but Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo have developed a new model which comes with two separated magnetic touch screen. One screen keyboard and the other one is display, you can assemble them depending on your demanding.

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Apparently a cute bear like this a toy for kids and girl. However, this is actually a bear phone. But it is not a simple cellphone stuffed into a toy bear. Each paw of the bear can make a speed dial when you squeeze it.

Girls will like it.

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This phone is pretty innovative. It comes with a pair of separated speakerphone and microphone and so you can attach them onto your fingers to call your friends. Also, it’s touch screen can remember the path fingers when you are typing the keypad so you can remember the contact by with different path patterns.

Designer； Zin Chan

With many built-in hi-tech functions, this conceptual phone may indicate a new trend of portable device. Except for such conventional functions as mobile phone, photo/video camera, multimedia player, this phone also provides 3D scanning and even holographic projector.

In order to make it easy to use these functions without much change to navigation or form, it features two independent swiveling and flipping displays.

Designer: Shkinder Maxim

This Mooon+ touchscreen phone features a built-in handset which could be attached on the phone as the microphone when not in use.

Designer: Sunman Kwon

With the unique gesture controlling technique, you could mute an incoming call or snooze the alarm by moving your hand over the phone. Next time, you could end a phone like a magician.

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Shaped in cylinder, this cellphone could be powered by a single AA battery. In order to last longer with the limited juice, this cellpohone has no 3G, no amera, no MP3 player, no SMS and even no LCD screen. But, it could provide 5 hours of talki time and 250 hours on standby.[source]

Just separate the two parts of the phone, another part of the LCD gonna be revealed. Maybe it’s not a convenient one, it’s still a good design.

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Samsung has just released a new micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on water. What you should do to charge your phone is just add some water. It will be use on cellphone in 2010.

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This concept design gives you a better way to charge your cellphone. You can just hang it on the wall and charge it at the same time.

Designer: Maxie Pantel

This Infobars 2 cellphone is a fairly cool phone. It looks like a balloon. But it won’t be broken by puncturing.

Recently Texas Instrument have release their first cellphone projector which could be a good device for business man. Video after the jump.

This concept cellphone makes your touch experience totally different.

Designer: Timo Wong

Because of unique design, this cellphone could be supported by its own battery.

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This phone allows you to call your friends with a car. It’s really funny.

Currently, it is only available in China.

Price: 8,999 Twaiwan dollar (273 $USD)
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Hey, you can answer you cellphone just by flicking your wrist. The people seeing your action might think that you’re spiderman.

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Are you still crazy with iPhone? Please take a look at this better cell. It has three touch screens, just like three iPhone in one cell.

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In order to develop new cellphone with built-in projector, Motorola has made an agreement to Microvision which is a professional company in ultra-miniature projector. Then, in the future, you will have a big display anywhere as long as you are taking a cellphone.

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This concept cellphone from Samsung is enables the visually impaired users to send and receive Braille text messages. The 3 x 4 button on the phone is used as two Braille keypads and text messages can be “touched” through the Braille display screen in the lower part.

There’s another cellphone for blinds. It uses differently angled keys that be distinguished by blinds.

These concept design allow you to share the juice and memory with your partner. Plus, your display could be combined into a single one. You wanna share this(these) with your lovers?

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