Japan Watch: Media Skin Cellphone

Jason Chen — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:00:27 EST

Remember that hot Media Skin cellphone we saw nearly two years ago from Tokujin Yoshioka design? It's about to be released on KDDI and not NTT DoCoMo, which to most Americans means absolutely nothing.

The Media Skin, however, comes in black, orange, and white, has a QVGA screen, and some various other features we can't quite make out because we don't read Japanese. Point is, design projects actually do make it out sometimes—at least in Japan.

More shots after the jump.

– Jason Chen

Design Page [KDDI via MetroSexualDesires - Thanks Bob!]
[and Digital World Tokyo - Thanks Mark.]

AU Phones: Media Skin, Machina, Hexagon

Noah R — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:12:40 EST

As part of the ongoing AU Design Project, Japanese communications company AU recently unveiled some promising new concepts for future phones. The AU Design Project is a department of AU responsible for making phones that are, well, just way way sexier than anything else on the market. The AU Design Project gave Japan such coveted phones as the Talby and the Penck, so whenever new concepts come along from them, people tend to sit up and take notice. And drool a lot.

More photos and details after the jump...

First up is the curiously-named "Media Skin" by designer Tokujin Yoshioka, whose credits include work for Issey Miyake, Hermes and Bang & Olufsen. Deliciously slim, with an elegant, minimalist feel and an iPod nano-esque scratch-attracting screen. I'm probably not alone when I say that if this ever makes it to production, I would gladly sell body parts to own it. Well, not my own body parts.

AU also introduced concepts by design team Waterdesignscope. The "Machina" and "Hexagon" are both slightly more abstract in shape, with the Machina also — I'm assuming — capable of random acts of homicide thanks to the designer's choice to include a HAL 9000 in every handset.

Introducing the Media Skin, the Machina and the Hexagon (Japanese site) [AU KDDI]
The AU Design Project (English) [AU KDDI]
AU Design Project Prototypes - a rundown of past concepts (English) [AU KDDI]

Gizmodo: media skin

Japan Watch: Media Skin Cellphone

AU Phones: Media Skin, Machina, Hexagon