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iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by waylonk »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #65

I don't understand why so many designers attempt to push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture graphene at a scale large enough to use them on iphone screens you'd probably win the Nobel. You can't push the boundary of what's possible without alr…

I don't understand why so many Science Fiction authors attempt push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture anti-gravity thrusters at a scale large enough to use them on a space ship you'd probably win the Nobel.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by rudedogg »

jrockway wrote: post #18

I love the idea of wrapping the display around the side of the phone and having touch sensors to detect when you're holding your phone. I have this problem where I'm holding the phone with one hand and trying to press something with my thumb. It doesn't register as a touch because part of my hand is contacting the front of the screen, causing my action to be interpreted as some sort of two-finger gesture. With accura…

Slightly off topic but if interested in learning more about DPI/fonts check out http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/ and http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/2-0-5-typo

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by shinratdr »

kyro wrote: post #74

I would highly recommend the majority of you here to stay away from fashion shows and car conventions if this is your reaction to this concept.

I think it's safe to assume that's pretty much the case for the majority of us to begin with.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by adrusi »

b1daly wrote: post #35

Here's an idea. Make a phone with a case that is strong enough to withstand the drops that inevitably happen! Putting so much effort into cool looking things that have to be covered by dorky cases is an illustration of the irrational at the heart of tech fetishes.

I've dropped my iPhone 4 from a meter high onto surfaces such as wood, tile and asphalt more times than I'm willing to admit, and I've experienced no cracks. I don't know if I'm just astoundingly lucky, or if my particular device is just very well built, but I am satisfied with the state of phone durability at least from my limited experience.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by shinratdr »

Someone said on Twitter the other day, I wonder what UI designers could come up with if they weren't hamstrung by the fact that it needs to be built by a developer? I can't help but think of exactly that whenever I see one of these hardware mockups. This is what designers can do when they aren't hamstrung by the need to actually have it built by hardware engineers.

An interesting intellectual exercise and a beautiful design, but that only applies if you think it could be real, or else it's the hardware equivalent of a Minority Report interface. I just don't see this in my hand within the next 20 years. That makes it easy to be pessimistic.

In reference to the top comment, that's why good Sci Fi tends to focus on how the technology affects the future society and interpersonal relationships, not simply marvelling at the technology itself. Calling this the "iPhone 6" mockup and not simply a future phone or even iPhone puts a certain expectation on it, as does the mention of specs that would only be impressive for a year or two.

You can't have it both ways. Either it's an entirely theoretical mockup that can't be criticized and it's simply design work or I'm supposed to imagine it as the iPhone that's on the market two years from now with the specs listed on that page.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by TallboyOne »

Is this a joke? Lol, how are you supposed to use this with one hand. The design (from a presentation perspective) is beautiful, the idea from a practicality standpoint is 100% useless. I couldn't tell if this was serious until I was like 75% of the way through.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by kyro »

shinratdr wrote: post #93
kyro wrote: post #74

I would highly recommend the majority of you here to stay away from fashion shows and car conventions if this is your reaction to this concept.

I think it's safe to assume that's pretty much the case for the majority of us to begin with.

Which is really a shame. They're typically great fun, and potentially inspirational.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by dkuntz2 »

arrrg wrote: post #68
sbierwagen wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this is an advertisement, then all it advertises is that he is incompetent at industrial design.

Yeah, well he is not an industrial designer, doesn’t advertise himself as one and doesn’t sell his industrial design skills. Which he doesn’t have. Doesn’t even claim to have. Not even a little bit. He is a fucking graphic designer and that’s exactly how you should judge this.

He's a graphic designer? Than where's some original graphics? The entire thing looks like he made a tweak to an iPhone model, but didn't produce anything nearing original, and slightly modified the iPhone website.

None of the assets look original, and there doesn't actually seem to be any graphic design involved. The entire thing looks to be a showcase of non-existent industrial design skills.

Hows that for judging it based on graphic design?

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by mayank »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #64
geuis wrote: post #51

Folks, stop bitching and complaining about this or that idea being good/bad/impractical etc, etc. It's a designer's demo portfolio work. http://www.johnnyplaid.com Designers do this stuff because they have ideas about how devices and interfaces can change and they explore those ideas. It doesn't seem to me that Johnny is making claims about inside information. He's using his visual talents to create mockups of what m…

Perhaps the response would be similar if he had a design for two headed baby clothes, or superhero outfits. There is this notion of the 'uncanny valley' where a rendering/expression of a human gets too close to the real thing. There is a similar space in design where dissonance between what is possible and what is shown jars the senses. Escher used this to great effect, creating scenes that you eyes initially perceiv…

You may be taking this a bit too literally. I saw it as a designer's attempt to build marketing for a fictional device that is fun to imagine. If you've ever read science fiction, there's a certain joy in imagining new devices with capabilities that currently seem impossible. Without this sort of imagination, like the tricorder that you point out, a whole lot of contemporary engineers might have never found this inspiration.

Graphene isn't the best choice, but the point was to illustrate a currently unseen level of tensile strength, not as a blueprint for manufacture. Wouldn't that be a fun device to have?

We tend to ignore humor on HN, but this is one person's imagination at work, and I applaud that.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by vl »

durkie wrote: post #7
MrFoof wrote: post #2

Would the aluminum + carbon fiber be a weave of aluminum mixed in with the carbon weave (similar to Pagani's carbotanium for the Huayra's body panels), or an aluminum galvanization process on the surface of the carbon fiber (similar to the galvanized carbon fiber in the Porsche 918 Spyder)?

I did my master's thesis on aluminum/carbon fiber composites and typically they mean infiltrating liquid aluminum through weaves of carbon fiber. But these materials are hard as hell to make. Carbon and aluminum do not get along for a variety of reasons, and aluminum/carbon composites remain a pie-in-the-sky concept. One of the ways they make Al/C composites now is through a process called squeeze casting, whereby th…

Well, then in this iPhone they should use carbon fiber titanium instead!
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