Mobiado CPT002
Aston Martin Concept Promises Transparent Touchscreen
Car designers are used
to being able to come up with outlandish ideas that will never quite work, so
why shouldn’t they do the same with smartphones? TheMobiado CPT002 Aston Martin concept phone takes a sheet
of solid sapphire crystal, layers on a transparent capacitive touchscreen,
and then brackets it with platinum side bars containing the battery,
electronics and SIM card.
At least, that’s
what the design brief says; actually manufacturing all this would, we fear, be
a little outside the realms of what’s feasible. Still, the Android-based
concept looks fantastic, and would have plenty of integration with your Aston
Martin (you do have an Aston, don’t you?).
As well as working
as the key, the CPT002 would automatically hook up to your car’s display,
showing FourSquare-powered points-of-interest, parking and your friends, while
cameras embedded in the car will share photos to Twitter and Facebook. Should
you accidentally crash, the phone will record stats from the airbag and other
sensors. Mobiado say the whole exercise is designed to “push the boundaries of
invention”; as long as they’re paying for the car, we won’t argue with them.
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