My new phone:

I want one, badly. The whole front of the phone is a crafty display, that shows old skool reels when in music mode etc.



When I went through Japan I spent about 6 hours checking out the phones there. Some were like miniature lambourginis, and others were basically chopsticks. The thing that got me the most about them was the list of technical capabilities often included technology I have only heard of in Iain M Banks novels. Being serious though, they did have designs to address every possible style or aesthetic desire the Japanese could possibly want to carry round and show off, i.e. every 'fashion' invented to date.

What do we get? Grey lumps of shit by Nokia. At least Motorolla are trying I guess.

I often daydream about the 'Sandbenders' Gibson used in I-can't-remember-which-novel. Custom designer made computers for individuals. From what I remember they were a sort of goggle-and-glove system with a CPU worn somewhere on your body?

Anyway, the concept of hand made, one off, designer call-them-what-you-will systems hold a lot of appeal for me. I guess they are kind of case mods, but I imagine phones, iPods, PDAs, Laptops, all of that kind of shit, built by artisans, individual and rad.