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Awesome Telephone Booths

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We see telephone booths everywhere but they do not all come with an interesting or creative appearance as these shown here do. Mixed up with various popular elements like Hello Kitty, Twitter and aquariums, each phone booth is now radiating new vitality and adding new beauty to the prosperous cities. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Big Tongue Phone

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If you’re ever a fan of Rolling Stone you’ll soon figure out where the new Big Tongue Phone gets its inspiration. And the answer is actually Rolling Stone’s big tongue logo drawn by John Pasche in 1970, which appeared for the first time on the album of “Sticky Fingers” in 1971. Although it’s nearly 30 years since the first time the Big Tongue was made to the public, it’s still fantastic to see this famous logo again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Icon Phone

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Icon Phone designed by Elium Studio is a cordless phone & Internet radio. It comes with quite a simple shape to demonstrate a brief beauty, but combines several functions in one, including Wireless DECT VoIP, Hands-free facility, HiFi ringtones, SMS text messaging, HD Sound, Stereo speakers, Portable radio, Huge choice of Internet radio stations, Colour screen, etc. To sum up, the Icon Phone is a simple device with full functions. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Visual Sound Mobile Phone

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Pen Concept Mobile Phone

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Eco-friendly Cellphone powered by sugary drinks

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What is your phone doing on the window glass?

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Mechanical Mobile

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Those who love mobile games surely know the problem in supporting them, yes, you have to charge the phone from time to time and that really bothers you a lot. Mikhail Stawsky’s ‘Mikhail Stawsky’ here seems to be an ideal solution to that problem. No longer need an extra charger; you can just spin the phone around your finger to charge it. Well, I wish this were not merely a conceptual product. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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A Green Phone from Nokia

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Well-known for a sustainable use, Nokia has been widely popular all over the world. And the new product, a green phone that features a recyclable use, would make you love Nokia much more. Every part of the new phone is made from recycled Aluminum; A capacitive sensor is built onto the keyboard to simplify the phone; Electronic ink is adopted to display words so as to save more energy. In addition, the phone also uses silver-zinc batteries rather than the regular lithium batteries, to reduce electronic wastes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Phone Fingers

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Well, frankly speaking, the Phone Finger is really unnecessary and maybe a bit stupid…You may even associate it with something you wouldn’t want your mom to find in your pockets! But if you’re someone who seriously cares about all the belongings, you may find the Phone Fingers quite useful to protect your iPhone from finger prints and smudges.

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Wake-Up Phone

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Well… is Wake-Up Phone a phone that awakes me in the morning?! Come on, each phone now has emerged as a functional alarm clock! So what’s the peculiarity of this phone? Actually, it features a tilted display to give you a good view of the time as those traditional alarm clocks do. The Wake-Up Phone also comes integrated with a camera and a radio, which are controlled by the shortcut buttons.

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What’s this?

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Look, what’s this?

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Bath-Phone

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Have you ever missed any important calls when taking a bath? Certainly we may break off to answer them, but that’s no way to make a lasting improvement. And presenting here is a water-proof phone that allows the users to take calls without leaving the bathtub. Based on the Bluetooth technology, Bath-Phone can connect with your cell-phone and therefore lets you to have a conversation while enjoying a bath.

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OC iPhone Dock

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What could be more annoying than the cellphone ringing during the work? The sudden noise frightenes you a lot!  So the OC iPhone dock will be a better choice, alerting you quietly whenever there’s a call or a message. It just tilts slightly and drives the transparent screen float a bit. In that case, you won’t miss any  important information or lose your concentration to the work .

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Window Phone

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Do you believe that the thin transparent touch phone could make accurate weather predictions and change its screen backgrounds to reflect real-time climate conditions? Incredibly miraculous, the display seems crystal in sunny days, foggy in rainy days and icy in snow days. Besides, it also highlights a convenient mode change that is simply switched as you blow your breath onto the phone.

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