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 posted by georgelazenby , January 23, 2009 6:01 AM]

the uncanny valley holds for hands.

[#2 posted by AceJohnny , January 23, 2009 6:12 AM]

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.

[#3 posted by Trent Hawkins , January 23, 2009 6:16 AM]

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

[#4 posted by huntsu , January 23, 2009 6:24 AM]

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.

[#5 posted by moebrook , January 23, 2009 7:11 AM]

this wrist phone idea needs to be marketed to runners.

[#6 posted by Brainspore , January 24, 2009 10:00 AM]

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

[#7 posted by Daemon , January 24, 2009 12:08 PM]

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

[#8 posted by Memory Harker , January 24, 2009 5:19 PM]

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

*shivers*

[#9 posted by eustace , January 24, 2009 5:52 PM]

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

[#10 posted by justanotherusername , January 24, 2009 6:28 PM]

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."

[#11 posted by justanotherusername , January 24, 2009 6:35 PM]

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

[#12 posted by kgish , January 25, 2009 7:19 AM]

Clever idea but it's just too bulky.

[#13 posted by deckard68 , January 25, 2009 12:58 PM]

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

[#14 posted by macrumpton , January 26, 2009 8:00 AM]

Eeek! that pinky is scary.