Fujitsu's future mobile phone concepts

Two Japanese companies Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Design Limited announced yesterday the winners of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design competition 2009. This design competition for the collection of creative and innovative ideas from the people, it was announced in May of this year. The competition itself was positioned as one of the ways to develop and improve the design of modern mobile phones Fujitsu.

Winners

Most interestingly, out of the 2,000 concept designs of mobile phones of the future, the winning models were not the most luxurious or the most futuristic. On the contrary, the Grand Prix was awarded to the model that demonstrated the most intuitive interface for users. In this Fujitsu has demonstrated its original approach.

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The winners - 24 models: one Grand Prix, two second places (each in different categories), six separate awards of judges (according to the number of judges) and 15 incentive prizes.

Who are the judges?

The panel of judges included: designer Toshiyuki Kita, art director Manabu Mizuno, chief editor of Nikkei Design magazine Kazuya Shimokawa and chairman of the Japanese Designers Association, art director Katsumi Asaba (Katsumi Asaba).

The Grand Prix

Jin-Gwon Go, a South Korean college student studying design, won about $ 20,000 equivalent for his mobile phone concept called Gesture. Of all the finalists, the Go project was probably the only one that had the form of a mobile phone that everyone expected. Fujitsu said its project stood out due to gesture-based commands, and touch-sensitive icons that allow you to control the phone with one hand only.











Title: Gestures

Designer: Jin-Gwon GO

Description: The functions on the phone are turned on depending on how the phone is taken in hand by the user.

Second place in the practical category

Name: Soap

Designer: YAN

Description: This mobile phone is designed specifically for children and embodies the idea that well-being is associated with cleanliness. Coming from the street, the child learns to wash everything, including a mobile phone.

Second place in the category "Dream"

Name: bend phone

Designer: Hanna Sahlen / Sachiko Munakata

Description: A mobile phone that is as thick as a sheet of paper, which can be “crushed” into compact forms and deployed in cases where it is necessary to use it for its intended purpose. :)

Judge Award - award from designer Toshiyuki Kita

Name: Adjustick

Designer: Izumi Tanaka (Izumi Tanaka)

Description: The concept is a mobile phone with a tubular design that displays the minimum amount of information through simple operations. Its main feature is that it can, if necessary, project both a virtual screen and a keyboard.

Judge Award - award from Manabu Mizuno

Name: Osusowa Keitai ("phone sliced")

Designer: Kan Yasuma, Yo Ishigaki, Yoshihisa Tanaka

Description: These are several mobile phones that can be connected into one whole, or used as independent holistic models. This concept allows one phone to share part of its charge with another, or, for example, combine several screens into one large one.

Judge Award - reward from Kazuya Shimokawa

Name: Hamelifon

Designer: Hiroyuki Tabuchi

Description: A unique concept, the body of which can imitate as a chameleon and reproduce the texture of the surface on which it is placed.

Judge Award - Award from Katsumi Asaba

Name: F-Circle

Designer: Yuji Ito

Description: A distinctive feature of the design of this phone is entirely in its appearance, which is a departure from the traditional rectangular shapes, which are replaced by round ones.

Judge Award - Award from Fujitsu Limited Senior Vice President Hideyuki Saso [Hideyuki Saso]

Name: KAORA (Tiling)

Designer: Wataru Igarashi (Wataru Igarashi)

Description: The main idea of ​​this concept is to refute the statement “Displays should be flat”, and the goal is to create a special display design that offers the user unprecedented convenience.

Judge Award - Award from Fujitsu Design Limited President Kimitaka Kato [Kimitaka Kato]

Name: Amebafon

Designer: Kwak yeon

Description: The entire visible surface of the phone is a single touch screen, which is distinguished by increased ease of use. The inner concave part is fitted for maximum convenience under the shape of a human face, when the phone leans against it during a call.

Note:

A / Some of the photos are borrowed from here .



B / on the topic of this exhibition on Habré has already been the post " Ceatec 2009 " from sp1ne . No pictures, but a lot of interesting information.



C / Enlarged photos can be viewed here .