Monday, June 20, 2011

What would a smartphone in Blade Runner?


Technology blog from Bangladesh

Richard Clarkson has created this concept smartphone to rotary dial to remind us what we lost with the advent of touch screens.

If the shape of the face is familiar, Richard has given a patina to better fit the spirit of Blade Runner.The dial is removable and can be replaced by a model keyboard, if by chance you need to tone dialing keys to hunt down replicants.

This smartphone to dial the future seems to be an unlikely cross between an iPhone, an old phone and an equally old Sony Walkman.Now you just have to dial the Tyrell Corporation I guess.


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