No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Pictured above (and after the break, for the courageous) is the inexplicably ugly Rocket Phone all dressed up in white. We know you want one, but for your own good, just pretend it's not for sale.

We're not surprised that the slightly off kilter Solid Alliance is breaking out yet another questionably designed device, but you can certainly color us impressed if the company's newfangled UFO detector actually does everything it's supposed to. Marketed as a cellphone wrist strap (you know, so you always have this highly pertinent device with you), this unearthly "radar strap" is reportedly sensitive to intergalactic changes and cosmic forces surrounding us all, and it presumably goes berserk whenever it detects a UFO overhead. Sporting both UFO detection and "extraterrestrial heuristic" modes, it can even discern if the mysterious flying object is harmful to your health or simply a peaceful creature from another locale. While we hope this insult of human intelligence doesn't catch on, you can spend your hard-earned ¥2,222 ($19) to snag one now until it becomes the next standard inclusion on our favorite handsets.

[Via The Raw Feed]

"Communications beyond time and place" is the theme for Pantech's round of concepts for next-generation mobile devices, and though we don't really know what that means, we like a lot of what we're seeing. Apparently "time" is a reference to the fourth dimension, which ties into the 4G services these phones are designed to support. No deets on a possible release for any of these; we're guessing we shouldn't be holding our breath, but if these serve as inspiration for Pantech's design direction, we're all for it -- especially considering these guys put together the rather unfortunate-looking Hero for Helio.

[Via textually.org]