It is beautiful. Others will disagree. But if phones cannot be innovative or useful, why not make them, at least, kinda weird? The CUin5 is covered in keys, every single side offering dialing pad, microphone and speaker. It looks like a fascinating puzzle or a pile of freshly-sliced banknote sheets.
The idea is that you can just stab at it dumbly, from any any angle, to make and answer calls:
That's an a posteriori rationalization for "looking nice," if ever there was one, but I'll take designer Branko Lukic at his word. The real problem with these things is that the begged question, "When and where can I get it?" is intentionally rhetorical—it's part of non · obkect / Design Fiction, a book dedicated to design freed from the hollow demands of business plans.
Not a Product Page [nonobjectbook.com via Gizmodo]
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