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Mehmet Erkök. The name sounds straight out of a Terry Gilliam movie and so do his customised Nokia phones, which is the sort of retro technology that you could have seen in 12 Monkeys. The orange one could have even made it in Barbarella no, not a Terry Gilliam movie but it has Jane Fonda running around half-naked, like these modded mobiles. Erkök is not a time traveller, though, but a lecturer at the Department of Industrial Product design in the Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, in Turkey. The picture of the blue one after the jump makes me want one. Now.
All I can say is: screw the iPhone. In my book, anything with tinted screens and springs wins.
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Thats is problably the best anti theft mecanism i've seen in year's!
just the kind of thing you need to walk in the middle of Istambul!:P
Looks like you could McGuyver yourself a gun outta that thing
W. T. F.?
isnt this the phone carried by Number 5?
rechargable AA's, bolts, springs, clips, bells, whistles, and a big f'ing speaker.... Awesome!
I'm disappointed that he didn't incorporate any black electrical tape in his designs.
The electrical tape is to keep the batteries in.
add you own tape, not like theres a shortage.
I swear, I have like 5 miles of E-tape, keep thinking im out so I buy a new spool, only to find that my closet contents have mutated into a peta-spool
peta = what comes after tera.
its cool if you can remember which keys are what..
I would forget immediately.
plus what's it look like full of pocket lint?
He should do a blackberry.
and then curl up into fetal position and cry.
TURKCELL?
I thought peta-spool was a big printing job for an animal rights organization, go figure...
I like these alot as well. Just a hint of Steampunk.
so BladeRunner....
I'll admit it's kind cool. But the keypad is butt-ugly.
Wasn't Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi once Constantinople Teknik Üniversitesi?
If you manage to run at 88mph you may find yourself running from dinosaurs across a grassy plain.
That's it. I'm TOTALLY buying that 3120 offa craigslist.
everybody knows that a black electrical tape is needed to make this thing a hands-free headset.. tape'em!
I have a Treo and I stripped the casing off my basic Nokia and glued beads to the button pads and pieces of colored glass over the LEDs (which are really bright once you remove the number pad). I took a metal band and hooked it around the back to hold the battery down.
I use it a lot more than my PDA. and people do notice it. The phone is considerably thinner outside of its shell, and since the shell isn't much protection it's kinda pointless to have it anyway.
And on a basic phone, the buttons are standard. Never had a problem forgetting which ones do what.
However, I would love to learn how he did the colorized plastic screens. It looks almost like he whittled them out of some semi-malleable plastic material. Love those the springs, too. You can indeed drill into the plastic on the sides without hitting any circuitry. The only drawback to my phone is the screen might crack easier if it's dropped a certain way, so I MUST learn how he did the screen covers! (On the other hand, the basic Nokia has this neat rubberized frame around the exposed screen that should be outside not inside the phone!
My Treo, by the way, sits in a drawer. People really notice this basic Nokia phone (like $50) and it makes me creative and mysterious in their eyes - HAHA!
3 days ago I thought about doing this to my SE. Without all that plastic my 710 could be MUCH smaller.
I smell a market for. . .
Steampunk Phones!
Manufacturers, take notice.
It looks to me like he just took the cases off and screwed some random crap on.
@m3talsyr3n - after your tera-file is full, do you move on to a peta-file?
/ducks, runs for cover
heehee. look at all the fancy buttons...*presspresspress* so pretty....*gadget love*
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