The Not-So-Distant Haberdashing Future
Posted by Qais Fulton
Oh how I loathe conceptual designs. The near constant reminder of a future that lies just out of reach. Well god damn it like Veruca Salt before me I Want It Now. It is highly unacceptable that I (and you as well I suppose) can’t reach within my vest pocket to pull out an ornately scrolled “pocket-watch” to respond to the aspersions cast on my mother in a text message from Brownlee.
The Cobalt [Yanko Design : grinding.be]
Categories: Cell Phones, Veruca Salt, Concept, The Future!, Asteriskpunk, Ectomo Tech
Posted at 11:28 pm on June 3, 2008
8 Comments -
FAP FAP FAP.
I mean… That’s such an attractive design. It is a shame it’s unavailable.
Comment by Giania — June 3, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
I peed, and I hate you.
Comment by chesh — June 3, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
I want it.
Qais, I just wanted to thank you for doing your damnedest to bring us such awesome fashion here at Ectomo. The fact that most of what you find is not actually available for purchase does not reflect negatively upon you, but rather shines upon the putrefying carcass that is our LCD society.
Comment by racerabbit — June 4, 2008 @ 12:20 am
The thing that strikes me about this is that by the time it becomes an antique, SMS messaging will be obsolete.
“This was my grandfather’s pocket watch. It was given to me by my father, and now, son, I’m giving it to you. You see, back then, they could only send 140 characters at a time. It doesn’t work anymore, since they switched to the psy-net to interface with our conscious mind, and pass messages directly from our internal monologue. But that’s the way they used to pass messages back then.
“Oh, and it stopped telling time after a couple of years. The battery died, and it couldn’t be replaced under warranty. Back then, they used to use quartz oscillators. Imagine that! They lost entire seconds every day! Not like the quantum resonators they use now.
“Anyway, it doesn’t work anymore. Now it just looks nice. And now I’m giving it to you.”
Comment by peregrine — June 4, 2008 @ 7:12 am
Man, that thing looks freaking epic. I would love to have one of those to pull out whenever somebody asked me the time. I could look steampunk and cyberpunk AT THE SAME TIME!
Comment by Oni — June 4, 2008 @ 10:31 am
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this is a $400 concept. i have one already. it’s an iPhone.
ok, this is an iPhone in a pocketwatch form factor. but, really, he hasn’t invented anything here. and, really, those interfaces should be a little more thematic: some slowly rotating brass gears and springs, little flipping chits for the text, etc.
haha, and peregrin is correct about the future uselessness of it, and of all tech/comm devices.
this is a lunchtime idea, photoshopped out in an hour. the only real “design” going on here is the interfaces, and they’re good, but not for this device. this kid is better at photoshop than industrial design.
however, if i am misinterpreting this, and it is a real concept for production, i am happy to eat my words and pocket one of these gizmos myself. but what is showing and written about it has the stink of a first year industrial design student project (and, yes, i’m saying that having been an ID student. would you like to see my teleportation device?).
Comment by Haux — June 4, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
True.. this watch might never actually see the light of day but we can still hope, can’t we? And anyhow, I can’t stand Ipods and the assorted I-whatevers, there is something obscene about anything that has to be replaced rather than renewed.
Comment by Andy — June 4, 2008 @ 2:27 pm