"Cell atlantic" personal cellphone booth offers portable privacy
Out of the many gadgets and devices that have been featured on these pages over the years, the last one you'd think someone would make improvements upon would be the personal cellphone booth invented last year by Nick Rodrigues, which seems to perform its intended duty almost perfectly. Well NYU student Jenny Chowdhury, the same person who brought us that team-building Mobile Assassins game, decided to take the mobile phone booth to the next level by making it both lighter and more private. Instead of the folding plastic and metal design built by Rodrigues, Chowdhury decided to use Chinese merchant bags to stitch together her cleverly-named, full-length "cell atlantic" phonebooth, as a symbol of the structure's nomadic nature. Chowdhury hopes that people seeing or using the booth will take a moment to consider the impact of cellphones on our daily lives, while forcing them to stand still and concentrate on a call instead of engaging in the usual multitasking.[Via textually]
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Razib Ahmed @ May 22nd 2006 6:01AM
The name Jenny Chowdhury seems to be South Asian (Indian or Bangladeshi). I hope that she can do some research about South Asian countries too. We need this kind of privacy here in South Asia and something similar like Chinese merchant bags are available here.
Since, India is going to surpass USA in terms of mobile phone user by 2008 (http://www.southasiabiz.com/2006/05/india_surpassing_usa_as_a_mobi.html), I think that researchers should start finding sollutions for the Indian market from now.
Dan @ May 22nd 2006 8:44AM
I think it looks pretty ridiculous... I mean I give it to her that the idea is great. But the product itself is just like.... wtf.. I mean are you really gonna be pulling this out in the middle of the sidewalk with people looking at you like your some Contagious person isolating your self from everyone else. I really dont see this making its way to people in most states.
axup @ May 23rd 2006 3:56AM
Uh, Dan. It's an art project, not a real product. It's supposed to make people reconsider their use of mobile phones and the social impact on others. I quite like the concept and the execution of the prototype.