If I had access to a secret stash of iPhone knockoffs – a phone that worked identically to the real iPhone, but was a bootleg made of inauthentic parts – how much could I charge? Why could I charge that?
Last month, I risked life and limb to tell you about Celsius X-VI-II, a shadowy French company who was building a $US300,000 mechanical mobile phone. The first pictures of the phone have surfaced, and they don’t exactly answer our questions.
The phone’s official unveiling is still to come next week at Baselworld Watch Show, but these shots from Watchismo at least give you a sense of what a $US275,000 mechanical cell phone looks like.
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The body is transparent, so owners can look at the phone’s mechanical guts and remind themselves why they paid so damn much for this thing. Celsius seems awfully proud of some sort of micromechanical system that functions when the clamshell is opened and closed, but it’s still not really clear what it does.
The mystery of Celsius X VI II and their mechanical phone endures. Will Baselworld finally provide the answers we seek? [The Awesomer via Watchismo]
Not sure when this went down, but tipster Harvey pointed us in the direction of Dell’s online Adamo page, and the luxury, über-thin laptop has had a serious price reduction.
When Bang and Olufsen tackles a new type of device, they do it in a very specific way: oddly, stylishly, and with reckless disregard for cost. Exhibit F: The $US375 BeoTime, a flute-like, accelerometer-equipped wireless alarm clock.