Nokia teams up with TED

Nokia and the TEDGlobal Conference at Oxford have partnered this week to showcase some of the world’s most innovative thinking.

Bringing together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, 50 main presenters will be giving 18-minute talks over the next four days in Oxford, England. TEDGlobal speakers include a diverse range of personalities from all walks of life, from philosopher Alain de Button to actor, author and well-known technology enthusiast Stephen Fry.

Mark Loughran at Nokia comments: “Nokia’s global goal of Connecting People and our commitment to drive future technology innovation shares much common ground with TED’s mission of Ideas Worth Spreading”. We are proud to be the Global Communications for TED and are hugely excited about the opportunity to provide the UK’s wider technology community with a chance to experience TED Global live”.

“TED is a call to action surrounding ideas” says Ronda Carnegie, TED’s Global Partnership Director. “Nokia continues to take a leading position in using the TED platform to connect and communicate great content and ideas.”

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Coco Channel’s High-fashion Cell Phone

Fashion phones, trendy little mobile devices that typically look better than they work, are increasingly common these days. Many are born when stolid handset makers decide to do something a little different, while others come from partnerships of electronics companies companies and fashion moguls. This latest one, though, comes straight from Coco Chanel (through designer Fred de GARILHE), and while it has perhaps a little too much branding on it for our tastes, it is quite a looker.
When closed the phone looks something like one side of a chromed Rubik’s Cube. It slides open to reveal a semi-transparent glass screen said to be driven by an “optical fiber” system. The sliding portion of the cover lights up and turns into a number pad, while the other buttons on the right turn into start and end call buttons. It’s perhaps not the most ergonomic looking thing, and it’s also just a prototype so it may never see the light of day beyond these concept sketches, but it’s an innovative take on phone design and we’re all for a little innovation in the handset market.

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