Concept phones aren’t the same with concept cars. Usually, when manufacturers show off their concept cars, the design is super futuristic with sleek lines and cues. Then they’ll boast of how many horses the ride has, besides some really futuristic interior which looks like a jetfighter and a dashboard with meters that look like Japanese anime. Concept phones, no they don’t have horses. They’re boring, because they’re something a university student draws up during his free time, and dream about owning one. Like this concept for example.

Yes it’s slim, super slim to be precise. But these days people want something that has touchscreen, and transparent OLED, and Transformer design, and have antenna issues. This E-Cu phone (“E” for environment, and “Cu” for copper, naturally) doesn’t seem to have any of these. Well, maybe the antenna issue can be developed.

It’s a dream phone of English designer Patrick Hyland, who envisions the phone to be made from copper (chassis at least,but I doubt the whole thing will be in copper), and thus capable of drawing heat from your body and convert it into energy to power up the phone. Sounds like Electric Vehicles and their KERS and Range Extender systems.  That’s made possible (according to Mr Hyland) thanks to a nano size thermogenerator  chip placed in the copper phone.

I’m not so sure the increasing prices (and demand) for copper will ever make this phone a reality, but in the meantime it’s nice to see someone use the Nokia name for good. Nice try at least. Better than Nokia themselves.

SOURCE via Dezeen