What will the next big innovation in Smartphone design be?
The Smartphone of the Future: Farewell to the classic mobile phone design!
Large display, mostly angular, often in unobtrusive colors. We know and appreciate the designs of today’s smartphones. Two French designers will show how phones of the future might look like.
Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet present a gelatinous vision for future smartphone
Philippe Stark and Jerome Olivet were concerned about how smartphones could develop in the coming years?
The result is a design that also sounds technically exciting. Particularly noticeable is the outer facade, which is described as “gelatinous”, translucent and elongated.
Speech control and hologram
French designers Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet have proposed a new concept for the future of smartphones based around holograms and voice control.
The two designers are of the opinion that a typical touchscreen is no longer needed. Instead, content, news, or videos, for example, are presented via a 3D hologram. So a projector should be installed. Language control is also a matter of course.
“The phone’s camera acts as an ‘eye.” Among other things, it allows the reader to read the texts.
At Alo’s center is a molded aluminum alloy core. The pliable casing is designed to function as a haptic interface, giving feedback through heat as well as vibration.
“Its translucent skin emits vibrations or communicates by producing heat on its activity,” Olivet told Dezeen. “Its skin repairs automatically as soon as it is damaged.”
This would be able to carry out all inputs in the form of, for example, dictation, as well as read information (SMS, email, messenger messages). A display is not necessarily needed.
The system is called the developer Jerome Olivet Alo, who specializes in product design for new technologies. It also controls the camera. This is more to be understood as an “eye”, which also recognizes texts and even faces.
The Design
The Alo smartphone has a “gelatinous”, translucent and elongated case designed to fit naturally in the hand.
An aluminum core ensures stability, the soft surface should be handy and ergonomic. Even a self-repair function is available, in case the surface should be damaged. How this should work, however, is not explained.
Consideration of trends
Interesting: Olivet and Stark designed the concept for the manufacturer Thomson. Whether something will ever come from? Completely unclear. And probably not. But a few trends will help us clearly. Voice control is already a major topic as early as 2017; the same is true for AI elements.
While it is currently only a concept, Olivet plans to develop a prototype.
“It is a true artificial intelligence (AI),” said Olivet, who led the project, facilitated by Starck. “We can no longer separate from this device.”
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