We love a good concept phone here at Electricpig but too many concept designs boil down to slightly different curves or oddly shaped screens. The Nokia Kinetic is a bit different. It really (ho ho) leaps out at us.
The creation of British designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins, the Nokia Kinetic is at first glance just another candybar touchscreen, albeit with a slightly odd bulge at the bottom. That bulge is where the action is, however – nestled inside is an electromagnet that is powerful enough to jerk the phone upright when laid on a table.
The idea is that you put the phone down on a table and the when an alarm goes off, or you get an incoming call or text.. BaDOIng! It’s your phone! Sticking up vertically from the desk, look, so you can grab it and get talking.
We assume Mr Innes-Hopkins has included some kind of stabilizing technology – no doubt derived from Weebles – to stop the phone somersaulting through the air and smashing into a thousand expensive pieces the first time you try this out of doors, or perhaps this is just a cunning plan from Nokia to boost sales by having the phone essentially self destruct whenever it receives an SMS.
Sadly, this is still a concept. It is an official Nokia concept, though, and not just the product of a design student’s coursework as so many of these things turn out to be. There is still a chance therefore that this technology or something like it may find its way to a phone near you in the future.
TBC | £tbc | Nokia (via Engadget)
