Quick, where's the loud female opera singer to ruin many of these w/ here voice.

jkr's bold comment

sexy.. beats any phone anyday.. blah.

Nickrick2641

That'd be beautiful...behind a glass window.

As a phone it'd be one big greasy fingerprint smear.

dc-united

Maybe they can call it "The SmudgeCollector 1000"...

jabrwok

better come with an infinity warranty

enchantedgoose

Don't drop it...

rcast1986

Meh, my iPhone looks like Eeeevvvvvahhhh.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

Too much crap around the edges.

I'm going to take a photo of a single pane of cut glass, slap on a keypad overlay and call it a cell phone concept.

It'll sell meeeeeellllioons!

someToast

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: Whoa, where do get that app??

markarian

Any device that's advanced enough to work in a shard of glass would've also outgrown a 20th c. GUI. If you call your mom on a glassy cellphone from the future, I doubt it's going to have those numbers and icons.

frigg

@jm1234567890: "That device would have very poor ligibility..."

I love irony.

bosskev

Oh great. Just when I finally found my transparent keys.

PastorDoodah

One problem is that our world is not always a monochrome shade of colour.

That device would have very poor ligibility with a real background.

jm1234567890

the designer forgot that processors and memory are not see-through. And as soon as he/she designs conductive material that is also transparent, can he/she please let me know ASAP.

And if the phone internals fit in the hinge, then I'd rather carry just the hinge without the two pounds of glass.

Design-schmesign... Looks like a buttload of bologna to me...

pretol

I've developed a concept for a holographic phone which can project a 42 inch screen in mid air to watch movies stored on it's 300GB internal memory. It's small enough to be worn on the wrist and allows for interactive 3d video calling and has an auto-felatio button. It has a 6 year battery life too.

Sorry, but it might look nice, but if it doesn't take into account actual technical limitations of our current state of technology (battery, aerial etc) then it's not so much a concept as a prop for science fiction.

Sure is purdy though

Wraithen

@jabrwok: Nah.... that's benn trademarked by archos...

Maniako

Iphone Clear

iAirmanshirk

@Nickrick2641: no
its a piece of glass. just a piece if glass

i can make a mockup thats just a piece of glass

heres my microwave concept
heres my laptop concept
heres my ebook concept

a piece of glass is not a concept
it cant possibly be real at this point
it doesnt solve any previous problems with technology

its just a piece of glass with nonexistent touch buttons

jozen

@jabrwok: Or maybe the "Shatter"

RikudouSennin

@secretmanofagent: Nah, Yanko would make a perfectly invisible jetpack.

USB_Humping_Dog

@frigg: It would probably have a wagging finger and a list of sins dating back to when I was 12.

USB_Humping_Dog

@jabrwok: Nano coatings man!

DestroyerMTL

Let me guess. A Yanko Design. Surprise, surprise. Yet another concept that has no basis in reality whatsoever. Can we have a jetpack design too for the future that's also seethrough?

secretmanofagent

Sweet! If any electronics were ever to be called sexy, that would be called sexy, I'd love to see that happen.

ajr

So all of the electronics are 100% clear and see through? That would be a bitch to put together if you can't see the pieces once you put them in the phone

mares

@reynwrap582: Seriously, it's almost 2009, where's my edit button?

reynwrap582

If it could actually work with present-day technology, it would be absolutely beautiful as a functional. However, it can't, which makes it not only a useless concept, but actually makes it pretty ugly. Face it, if your design concept relies on technology that doesn't exist, then the artistic concept better be ASTONISHING.

Take the iPhone for an example. It's a beautiful piece of design because it's also highly functional (and I aint no fanboy, my iphone is the first and only apple product I've ever bought). But if it looked as it did as a concept that didn't have working technology behind it, it'd actually be kind of ugly.

reynwrap582

So my colleague can see that I call a pony? No, thanks!

OldPunk

@reynwrap582: Sorry, your robotic personal assistant accidentally left it in your flying car...

BeautifulAgony

People with glass phones shouldn't throw Apples.

Vagabum

Wait, if everyone can see through your phone, how are you supposed to pretend to be listening to your voicemail or writing a text when you're standing around awkwardly in public?

You all know you've done it!

Alchemistmerlin

Too good to be true.

Somadis

Why the caller's mom has blue hair?

sanctified

I love the sound of breaking glass.

Mikestan

Each handset comes with a complimentary case of Crystal Pepsi.

thesum

Why does his mom have green hair? Is that the mom-fashion when this thing hits the shelves?

Mr500

hmmm.. where did the glass speakers, the glass antenna, glass camera, the glass wires and motherboard and all that stuff go? I wonder. It probably has glass screws on there too. He can patent the design, but I don't know if he's going to make money off of it anytime soon. The designs are sweet, but they don't factor in all the space required for the stuff that's 'non-glass'; unless they manage to fit all that into the frame.

benjijk

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: all I can say is that this is another one of those vaporware devices that is hardly worth of news.

Ornament

It'd be interesting if it had some sort of video-phone tech on it. Something seems visually striking about seeing someone's face appear on a transparent screen to me.

Mr.Wilson