The "Game it Up" Phone

The Orion Concept. A Gaming phone with some pretty well thought out ideas, including buttons for use as controls. The iPhone is not a good gaming console because there are no buttons. On screen buttons make you block the screen to push them, and you have to look at the buttons instead of the action. The Orion phone has buttons on the sides of the screen that appear to be raised so you know when you are pushing them. Nice concept. Read more about it at recombu.com.

Guessing Today About Technology of Tomorrow

Nokia was the first cell phone to be easy to use and in a small enough form to feel like it was pretty futuristic. Now Nokia along with Cambridge Nanoscience Centre posted a video that makes Nano Technology look really cool when used with phone/PDA/Tricorder functionality. Did the phone scan the apple and see the fly had made it too dirty to eat? Watch. Personally, I now hate Nokia's menu system. It's so much work to navigate through. But maybe with a phone based from the same technology as the new KITT, they'll have a better software system. Maybe the phone will talk to you like KITT. Maybe it will think ahead and make decisions for use. Maybe Skynet will attack us soon. Anyway, cool idea, I think.