Tag: design

Porsche Design P'9522 mobile phone launches

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This is the Porsche P’9522 – a mobile phone designed by Porsche. I can hear you already thinking ‘it’s got an expensive name on it – the features are going to be practically non-existent’. Well, tell your thoughts that they’re wrong, and should shut up – it’s actually surprisingly high-specced.

The phone case is milled from a single solid aluminum block and a single sheet of scratchproof glass! It’s got a 2.8″ touchscreen OLED display! It’s got built-in Wi-Fi and GPS! It’s got a fingerprint scanner! A fingerprint scanner, for god’s sake!

The bad news? You’re not going to get this in the Carphone Warehouse or Phones 4 U. It’s being sold in Porsche shops and ‘exclusive specialist stores’ only. There’s no price quoted, but we’ll have to assume it’s going to be more than its predecessor, the fliptastic P’9521, which costs €1200 (just over £1000).

Porsche Design

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Duncan Geere Mobile phones

Fully Loaded – more bang for your buck

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The designer calls this chair “Fully Loaded”, and says it’s a ‘unique dichotomy of comfort and demise’. It’s made of 388 shotgun shells, already fired, sadly. You can pick from black, green, blue, red and copper shells, and the brass is covered with a coat of varnish to prevent tarnishing.

The chair is currently being built to order. No word how much it costs, but I suspect we’re not talking tens of pounds here – more like hundreds.

Rehhab (via Gearfuse)

Related chairs: Grass Armchair | Star Trek Command Chair | Torpedo Chair

Duncan Geere Furnishings & Furniture

Get your crayons out: Nokia Build comes to the UK

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Fancy yourself as a bit of an artist, do you? Well, if you love the Nokia 7310 Supernova (find out if you might like it by taking a look at Dan’s video review) and would like to customise its colourfulness even more, then Nokia has a treat for you.

The Nokia Build service has arrived in the UK and allows users to use standard drawing and colouring tools, personal photos or graphics to create their own casing. Complementary wallpapers, games, and other personalised options are also available…

Andy Merrett Mobile phones

Twitter gets a redesign

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I don’t think there’s anything else in my life that I have such a love/hate relationship with as Twitter. The addictive microblogging service is down several days each month, annoying for my Facebook friends (because I update 10 times a day) and annoying for those around me. I’ve never gone this far though.

Duncan Geere Websites

Utterly pointless, totally useless 'Cybertek Wings'… yours for $1,000!

Very rarely am I stumped for an opinion on a product, but this little baby has got me stumped like a pirate with two wooden legs.

Maybe i should just start by describing the thing: They’re wings that are made of metal that you can wear. They are called: Cybertek Wings. And what you do with them… well, that’s where i’m stumped.

As far as i can work out, you simply strap them to your back and press a little switch and – ‘phwoom’ – out pop the robo-wings. Ta-da! Brilliant. There you are, standing in your living room, pleased as punch, with your Cybertek Wings all stretched out in the breeze. Glorious… but now what? They won’t make you fly. They won’t let you glide. They don’t.. do.. anything. Well, except go ‘phwoom’ at the touch of a button, and even then it only goes ‘phwoom’ seven times. After that, you have to take them off and build the air pressure back up before resuming your ‘phwoom’ing.

Ryan Weir Gadgets, Stupid Gadgets, Weirdness