This is the Roden Crater, a inactive volcano northeast of Flagstaff, on the calm, dry plains of Arizona. In its sleep, it looks peaceful, harmless. Until you start climbing and reach the top of the 3-kilometer-wide mountain. Then you will be able to see the platform for extraterrestrial spaceships on its centre. James Turrell says it’s a large-scale art installation that will open in 2012, but he’s not fooling us. This is not an art installation. This has to be a spaceport.
We’re always suckers for odd and different design. Now Korean phone maker Sky complies with our desires with its IM-R200, a cool-looking slider with a red-bordered numeric keypad that slides out its middle like the meat in a sandwich, while a second screen is revealed with another sliding mechanism.
It’s not entirely clear if that second screen is a touchscreen or not, but the phone still looks fairly thin even with all that sliding action going on. This is one of those premium phones for Korea only so far, but we like to see these multiple sliding designs proliferating. – Charlie White
IM-R200, the latest bomb by Sky [Akihabara News]
