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Willcom Kuma Phone Puts the Mobile Phone Inside the Teddy Bear
Posted by John Mahoney at 11:45 PM on September 2, 2008
Here's an idea: people gesticulating wildly with their hands-free headsets already look crazy--why not capitalise on our nation's love of all things crazy and cute by putting a mobile phone inside of an, oh, i don't know, a teddy bear! So went a recent design meeting at Japanese firm Willcom apparently, who was showing their US$500 Kuma (bear) Phone concept at the recent Good Design Expo in Tokyo. Kuma takes an embedded SIM card and has assignable speed dial points on each paw, which you dial by squeezing. And of course, to accept and hang up calls, you squeeze its arse. Of course. [Trends in Japan]
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Improbus
Posted 12:20 AM 3/9/08
Man, that is just stupid ... and not in a good way.
Improbus
linuxidiot
Posted 12:14 AM 3/9/08
Reminds of that ep from Family Guy where the way around abstinence was to ear-hump
+ Watch video
linuxidiot
sharmanova
Posted 12:13 AM 3/9/08
Why does the idea of punting that thing really amuse me.
sharmanova
lpranal
Posted 12:09 AM 3/9/08
@GadgetPlay: The Windows Mobile version
Oh, I went there.
lpranal
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 12:06 AM 3/9/08
And given bears' sylvan defecation habits, this phone probably shouldn't be taken on camping trips.
OMG! Ponies!
GadgetPlay
Posted 12:02 AM 3/9/08
If this was at the Good Design Expo, what would be at the BAD Design Expo?
GadgetPlay
Jon B.
Posted 11:58 PM 2/9/08
@Formito: the chick or the bear? :P
Jon B.
Curves
Posted 11:58 PM 2/9/08
Talking into a bears crotch. Nope, nothing weird about that.
Curves
Formito
Posted 11:56 PM 2/9/08
Next month comes the full size Jenna Jameson version
Formito
Jon B.
Posted 11:55 PM 2/9/08
What is SHE looking at?
Jon B.
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:55 PM 2/9/08
Won't someone help that poor woman?! She's being mauled by Teddy Ruxpin!
OMG! Ponies!
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:34 AM 3/9/08
What do you mean you can't hear me? I'm speaking right into the boom mic!
What do you mean there is no boom mic?
EEEEWWWW!!!!
strider_mt2k
Phenostar
Posted 12:22 AM 3/9/08
Don't ask where the earpiece plug is.
Phenostar
crashfrog
Posted 12:47 AM 3/9/08
SIDETALKIN'!
crashfrog
yougottabekidding
Posted 1:19 AM 3/9/08
The Maxwell Smart shoe phone is a better idea, unless you've recently stepped in dog poo.
yougottabekidding
Rabid Penguin
Posted 1:06 AM 3/9/08
I guess the Japanese just got frustrated with continually trying to talk into Teddy Ruxpin's penis and nothing would happen... now he talks back. I think I'll stay away from this one.
Rabid Penguin
ps61318
Posted 1:28 AM 3/9/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Nuzzled, looks more like it.
She is having WAY too much fun.
Bear-on-babe action! Only on Gizmodo!
ps61318
Stabio
Posted 1:49 AM 3/9/08
I thinking of an Alien facehugger phone...
Stabio
GiltProto
Posted 5:31 AM 3/9/08
Hey Boo-Boo, I'm smarter than your average bear!
GiltProto
Kaikai
Posted 5:31 AM 3/9/08
Didn't they find a cellphone in a little girl's teddy bear in the horrible thriller "one missed call"
Kaikai