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This smartphone concept design purports to usher in a new era by getting rid of screens & by using a voice activated AI-powered virtual assistant with projected holograms. All of it using the form factor of a sophisticated sex toy.
2 famous French industrial designers Philippe Starck & Jerome Olivet have teamed up with electronics manufacturer Thomson to show the world ‘Alo‘, a design that they say is the “smartphone of the future.” It’s a radical departure from the ubiquitous iPhone-inspired, tactile screen-based phones we all carry in our pockets.
Philippe is already well known & widely respected as the designer of the Xiaomi Mi Mix, the 1st smartphone with a screen that covers as much as 91% of its frontal surface area. Now the designer is going even further & creating a device with absolutely no screen. He sees the presence of screens as limiting factors in the introduction of new form factors.
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