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Telephone Designs For 2010

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The Molecular Telephone Oh fabulous simplicity. Wherefor art thou, the truest form of it? Is it the newest bricks, or the never-made sculpturals without “beer compass” applications? Judge for me! This is a concept cell phone made by Tjep Design for the O2 company. It is based on the same concept as O2, the molecularity, that is. It’s a cell-cell.
Designer: Tjep Design Available at: Yanko Design

Pink Furry Emerson corded novelty telephone
$39.99 Available at: Distinctive Telephones

Glass Phone Style Design These would definitely need protective cases to make it through a day in my pocket, or any other regular human-being for that matter. And with a full-glass (and a little bit of plastic) construction, I wouldn’t be using it on anything but pure-pc-clean-hands days. On the other hand, they are just gorgeous, as per usual.They're dubbed “Glassy Glassy” phones by Funamizu. Designer: Mac Funamizu - available at Yanko Design

Touch Screen Rotary Phone It’s a total hash of digital and analog ideologies and still looks uber-cool! I guess this is what an iPhone-esque phone would have looked like in the 80’s. Calling itself the Touch Screen Rotary, this phone is a Retro Blast but with modern functionality. Needless to say, touch controls on the rotary are there and so is a backlit screen.
Designer: Mark Miller Available at: Yanko Design

The Grassy Phone In today’s rapid consumerist society, consumption comes into question. How durable do we want our devices to be when they become near obsolete in 5 years? The source materials that make up their build often take hundreds of years to break down. An alternative ideology are disposable products made from natural sources. The Natural Year Phone is made of hay, sans screen and soft keys. The hard components get recycled while the hay is dry. Designer: Je-Hyun Kim Available at: Yanko Design

Apple Keyboard Concept Holds iPod/iPhone Apple keyboards generally aren't too exciting to look at, but then again a concept might just give it a kick in the pants that it so desperately requires. The Apple Keyboard concept you see above not only features all the necessary keys required in a Mac OS X environment, it also boasts an induction charge and sync segment on the right side that is able to hold an iPhone or iPod (from newer generations only, obviously). There are also half a dozen programmable OLED keys that are similar to the ones on the Optimus Maximus Aux keyboard. Would you get something like this, or do you think it is just overkill? The designer has priced it at $79.99, and heck, that's a whole lot cheaper compared to those Optimus ripoffs! No idea if he'll make a profit at that price point though.

Conduit cell phone concept A mobile workstation and phone all rolled up into one gorgeous package. Pan-pipe jokes aside, this concept was designed for SKY/Pantech, a Korean cellphone company. Let's all beg them to make this a reality. The Conduit is three devices in one. Designer Tirshathah Hunter used a roll-away flexible display to create a PDA with stylus, a regular cellphone with camera, and a slimline cellphone that snaps away from the other modules. "A creative approach to mobility seemed key," he says. When you use the slim phone alone, there's no keypad, so you use a scroll tool or voice commands for calls and texting. If you're going to use voice commands for texting, wouldn't it be easier to just call?