NEC's "Flask" fuel cell-powered mobile phone

nec-flask-fuel-cell-mobile.jpgThe future has arrived!

Sadly, the future looks like a 1970s disposable cigarette lighter, thanks to NEC’s incredibly odd-looking Flask mobile phone and its glimpse into one possible future of mobile phone design and power.

The screen is transparent, as are the buttons, with everything else transparent and it all just sort of sitting there on the case. It must be using some sort of alien technology…