In twenty years, the mobile phone has become man's closest utensil. Can you imagine living without this umbilical box? Too bad it's often still a box that we hold to our ears...
Not if it's up to the CollabCuped-shop: Its jolly phone camouflage wraps the technology into a second skin. Hold it like if you are scribbling your cheek.
natinja
The minimalist box design prevalent in consumer devices today and the current tendency to conceal technologies create new difficulties for people who were used to retrieving whole cultural setups just by referencing to the shape of technological appendices. Read http://blog.tompappalardo.com/?p=2016.
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Berry Eggen
in 1999 NTT first presented 'Whisper' at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Pittsburgh. This is a wearable telephone handset that utilizes the human hand as part of the receiver. See, for example: http://www.mobilemag.com/2003/12/12/fingerwhisper-prototype-uses-human-hand-as-part-of-the-receiver/
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