ALO: A Smartphone Reimagined by Philippe Starck
Jerome Olivet and Philippe Starck reimagine the smartphone as an artificial assistant that can heal itself from scratches.
Despite the impassioned demarcations drawn between iPhone and Android devices by their users, the reality is the basic physical designs of modern smartphones share more similarities rather than any significant differences. Squint and an iPhone becomes a Galaxy, an HTC device resembles an LG phone. Simply put, our phones pretty much look all alike.
So there’s something welcomed and admirable about a reimagination breaking from this yawn-inducing mold. The ALO smartphone is indeed different ? a strangely executed concept conceived by French designers Jerome Olivet and Philippe Starck, an aluminum unibody coated in “a gelatinous, supple and natural envelope” that can heal itself from scratches, and jettisons the traditional screen interface altogether.
The futuristic Fortress of Solitude meets sabertooth tiger canine design is imagined engineered with haptic and temperature-based feedback, operating under control of an advanced AI to commandeer the usual litany of tasks away from the screen and over to verbal interaction between user and phone using natural voice command. Not all is lost from current phone designs: the ALO still sports dual cameras, because even in the future selfies will still be a thing.
From Jerome Olivet:
Alo provides a fully vocalised interface in all phone functions, reads SMS and emails, and even al...
Despite the impassioned demarcations drawn between iPhone and Android devices by their users, the reality is the basic physical designs of modern smartphones share more similarities rather than any significant differences. Squint and an iPhone becomes a Galaxy, an HTC device resembles an LG phone. Simply put, our phones pretty much look all alike.
So there’s something welcomed and admirable about a reimagination breaking from this yawn-inducing mold. The ALO smartphone is indeed different ? a strangely executed concept conceived by French designers Jerome Olivet and Philippe Starck, an aluminum unibody coated in “a gelatinous, supple and natural envelope” that can heal itself from scratches, and jettisons the traditional screen interface altogether.
The futuristic Fortress of Solitude meets sabertooth tiger canine design is imagined engineered with haptic and temperature-based feedback, operating under control of an advanced AI to commandeer the usual litany of tasks away from the screen and over to verbal interaction between user and phone using natural voice command. Not all is lost from current phone designs: the ALO still sports dual cameras, because even in the future selfies will still be a thing.
From Jerome Olivet:
Alo provides a fully vocalised interface in all phone functions, reads SMS and emails, and even al...
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