I know I do! Korean designer Sang Hoon Lee has the answer with his new concept for the HeartBeat Mobile Phone.
While this is still just a design, with no real plans for production (at least as far as I know), it offers a vision of a not so far away future! Lee feels that our cellphones are becoming more and more a part of who we are. What better way to deepen this relationship than to make your phone act like the organ of love? The phone will be able to inflate and deflate itself like a real heart:
The phone won't only inflate in all directions like a balloon though, it will be able to inflate specific areas of the surface including icons as you hover your finger over them. It's like bubble wrap for apps! THIS IS TRUE GENIUS!
While this is a stretch, the designers want a way for the current emotional state of the caller to be expressed by the 'heart beat' of the phone. Lee wants the mobile phone to become an avatar of a person's being, much like how the phones in Macross Frontier personify their owners!
Credits:
Ranka Lee Illustration by Tony Taka
Note:
The design was more than likely NOT inspired by Macross Frontier.
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