Here’s a flip phone that could put the “cool” back into clamshells. When you receive an incoming call, the corner dog-ears up and if need be, opens up (book-style) using actuators like artificial muscles in its elastomeric cover. Awesome, Motorola StarTAC 2.o maybe? Who knows, but whats for sure is that just imagining someone opening this phone up on the subway would definitely turn heads. The only major concern I would have is that when the phone is my pocket, and the corner leafed out, would that make it easy to open the phone by accident and possibly pick up an unwanted call? Or if the phone was compacted in your pocket by something pressing against it (say a stripper sitting on your lap), would it break the phone if the edge tried to lift up? But with those minor concerns aside, the Bio Phone concept is one of the freshest I’ve seen in quite some time, and if any company picks it up and puts it into production, I’d for sure be one of the first in line to grab it.
