The phone-watch of tomorrow, (rendered) today

LG’s making one that actually exists, but Shirley A. Roberts’ design for a wrist-phone has much more sci-fi panache. All it needs is cufflinks!

Emergency Phone [Fubiz via Monster Munch]

1. [Memory Harker]

   Wow, def the uncanniest valley for those fingers, yeah …

   *shivers*

2. [eustace]

   Now if that were her phone/spacesuit interface; and the only other thing she was wearing was a white unitard and a force field…

3. [justanotherusername]

   You know you’re not in Kansas anymore when you read a sentence like: “A woman with uncanny valley fingers showed off the phone watch of tomorrow.”

4. [justanotherusername]

   Btw, does this blow up when you leave the house?

5. [Brainspore]

   Tracking bracelets- not just for grizzly bears and sex offenders anymore!

6. [deckard68]

   Here’s an AT&T ad from 1994 for the amusingly titled “strap-on phone”:
   http://tinyurl.com/ad7d76

7. [Daemon]

   If it’s not a cybernetic implant, it’s not futuristic enough for me.

8. [macrumpton]

   Eeek! that pinky is scary.

9. [georgelazenby]

   the uncanny valley holds for hands.

10. [AceJohnny]

    Fluorescent display? They’re not being ambitious enough for a mock-up. This ain’t the 70s! Where is the OLED or e-paper display?

    georgelazenby, funny, I hadn’t noticed until I saw your comment. The arm and back of palm was convincing to me, until I noticed the fingers.

11. [Trent Hawkins]

    It’s bulky, and not made of OLED.
    So, sorry, but it’s not a future phone.

    This however might be: http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/news/articles/20017508482.html

12. [huntsu]

    It looks like something from the Buck Rogers TV show, so it is definitely not the future.

    If the phone WERE a cufflink, that would be cool. Anything bigger is useless to me.

13. [moebrook]

    this wrist phone idea needs to be marketed to runners.

14. [kgish]

    Clever idea but it’s just too bulky.