Nokia Kinetic concept mobile phone – design in motion
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First up, the Nokia Kinetic is not a real phone, rather it is a design concept, dreamt up in 2010 by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins, while a student at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
The design brief, was to “design a playful phone for 2012″. In addition to his own design skills, Innes-Hopkins had as his tutor Silas Grant, a former senior designer at Nokia.
It’s a very clean, great looking (concept) phone, isn’t it? But looks alone aren’t the kicker here. Notice the bulge at the bottom of the Kinetic? Inside there, Innes-Hopkins proposes in his design, is an electromagnet.
What the electromagnet does is to have the phone stand up from a prone position when, for instance, you receive a call. You look at the screen, and if you don’t want to take the call, or have it go through to messagebank, you give the phone a little push with your finger and the phone returns to its prone position.
The idea is that it performs this action for text messages, alarms, reminders, video calls… a neat trick. I’d like to think you could add sound effects to the phone as it moves between the prone and upright positions.
If you want to see more of Jeremy’s work, have a look at the Jeremy Innes-Hopkins/Design website.
Category: Mobile Phone
interesting idea, but it is based on similar features already found in some mobile phones, for example my samsung phone has “etiquette” mode, when a call comes in, and I dont want to take it, i just turn the phone over and the phone doesn’t ring, caller is forwarded to voice mail etc.
also, this phone has limited environment use, for example, how would it work in a pocket on a train… and if it did… would it not be a bit embarrassing?… i can just see it now… “is that your phone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me…”
Hey Jonathan, thanks for the comment. To be fair, this was a design project from last year, and he’d probably been working on it for some time before that. But you are right, definitely some pocket comedy possibilities!