Icono phone concept: call me, we'll do lunch

by Thomas Ricker posted Oct 17th 2008 at 5:33AM

Zinc Chan, a London-based designer, just struck fame with his Icono concept telephone with the speed of back-tax owing Ohio plumber. The design is inspired by the internationally recognized "call me" hand gesture made famous by pouty-mouthed debutantes and hollywood starlets -- aka Shaka, amongst surfers. As such, the microphone and speaker are split to ride the swell of the pinkie and thumb, respectively. Callers then draw a unique pattern on the touchscreen pre-assigned to their contacts to initiate a call. As far fetched as the concept may seem, work related to induction charging, body area networks for transmitting audio across human skin, round LCDs, and any number of short length wireless solutions could very well make this concept a near-term reality. One more pic after the break.

[Via Textually and Core77]

Filed under: Handsets

Tags: cellphone, concept, icono, zinc chan, ZincChan

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Nippero @ Oct 17th 2008 7:36AM

Lol ok thats interesting..

Looks like they messed up the diagram though. Shouldnt the earphone piece be the one with the larger hole with silicon rubber, since the thumb is supposed to be in there o_O

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