Sunday, March 08, 2009

Self winding cellphone

This is bizarre, but pretty. [Link]

Ulysse Nardin's answer appears to be to make a cellphone built like a fancy watch. Far from just blinging up a standard off the shelf phone with a bunch of diamonds and gold trim, the Ulysse Nardin Chairman uses a rotary kinetic winder mechanism to charge the battery, and promises to work on any cell network in the world.

So far Ulysse Nardin has provided only a couple of teaser shots of the back, holding back further details until the actual launch at the BaselWorld watch show later this month. Price was not mentioned, but with Ulysse Nardin's regular watches starting well into the thousands, I wouldn't expect to get it for free with a two year contract.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought of you when I saw this on Engadget. Very steampunk. :-)

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