Look up, peasant, from your soot-stained hands. Drop that shovel into
the furrowed ground and gaze upon the magic* that Mozilla has wrought.
Concept designer Billy May,
working through Mozilla's "Open Web Concept Phone" project, has
gathered community feedback and followed up on some rather mundane
visions for the mobile future with this little beauty, the Mozilla
Seabird. The completely fictional device has a disturbing initial
resemblance to a BlackBerry Storm, but as the video unfolds the
functionality is really what sells this thing. The big innovation is
the use of dual pico projectors on the side of the handset, which can
provide different functionality based on the phone's orientation: flat
on a table they pump out the two halves of a QWERTY keyboard, up on a
dock they offer the dual purpose of a large viewing screen above and a
seamless projected keyboard below. Other features, like the pop-out
wireless pointer / Bluetooth headset are slightly less realistic but no
less charming. Now, before you get too excited, you should know that
Mozilla has no plans to build this or any phone, they're just messing
around with some fancy 3D software and the bright imagination of their
community of users. Still, for the two minutes and thirty seven seconds
that the video after the break unfolds, allow yourself to think: "What
if?"
To say it's not gonna be made alot of thought was put into it. I love the all screen look, no buttons at all on the front. Wtf is that flap over the top? I dont like that.
