Motorola’s international design team has unveiled a series of twelve fantastical concept designs to mark the 25th anniversary of the cell phone. The designs are an attempt on the company’s part to create that they call a “design mythology,” or a unified set of aesthetic principles. Although almost all of the designs rely on technology that doesn’t exist and may not exist for some time (if ever), they reflect the company’s determination that, among other guiding principles, the industrial design of the future must rely on advanced materials, eschew obtrusive software in favor of intuitive interfaces, and integrate with human [...]

Antrepo Design Industry’s Time Tuner concept alarm clock aims to change its users perception of time through a non-traditional layout. With a pared down and linear design, the clock presents time as a straight progression through the increasing minutes of the hour. Instead of being part of a continuous circular cycle of time, or a typical digital time display, it seems to graphically expand the currently occurring hour while at the same time keeping it separate from all the other hours of the day. With only the present hour displayed it visualizes “now” more as a discreet event rather than [...]

Designer Eric Zhang noticed little attention being paid to small businesses who rely on modified vehicles to serve as mobile stores. He didn’t see many good examples of vehicles that were designed for the specific needs of selling on the go so he set out to come up with an idea that would.
His concept called the  MERM (Modular Electronic Retail Minivan) is an electric vehicle that can power itself with integrated solar panels. The MERM can shift from driving mode to retail mode in 3 minutes. Eric sees the biggest opportunity for the vehicle at sites like markets or events [...]

Now this is a handset, quite literally. Inspired by the international gesture for “call me!”, the “Icono” concept phone by London-based designer Zinc Chan actually turns your thumb and pinkie into a speaker and microphone. You dial calls by drawing a unique pattern on the accompanying touchscreen.
According to Engadget Mobile:
As far fetched as the concept may seem, work related to induction charging, body area networks for transmitting audio across human skin, round LCDs, and any number of short length wireless solutions could very well make this concept a near-term reality.
Who knows, pretty soon we could be cutting paper with finger-scissors [...]