Nokia’s design team has come up with a phone made from timber from sustainable forests.
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Although still in the prototype stage, it has an eight megapixel camera with a speaker, and will also feature Bluetooth and Symbian S60. However, there is no sign of solar-powered batteries that surely would make it the complete package for treehugging greenies who can then feel guilt-free about using their power-consuming tech gadgets.
Also being developed by Nokia is what they are calling a Liquid phone. Designer Rune Larsen says it has a liquid layer between your fingers and the touchscreen. He says he is trying to right a wrong with touchscreen technology, which as it stands has a disregard for tactile feedback. The Liquid phone uses a small pump to fill a substrate beneath the screen that gives users’ fingers something to feel and press, which alleviates our need to have something tangible to press, says the designer.
