03 September 2007

Brix phone concept links with others to create bigger and bigger display

Designer Seokwon Hong bring us another cool concept that primarily supposed be a phone in which the whole surface acts as a screen.

To make it even better, the Brix phones are capable of being connected together to make larger screens as pictured above

Yeah I know, just another one, we have seen tons and tons of concepts that attempt to bridge the idea of sharing not only content, but screen real estate with other similar devices.

Unfortunately most of those concepts fall flat because they don’t seem to understand the need for a minimalist approach in order for it to work. The Brix is one of the few that does it right.

First and foremost, Brix is a phone. The entire surface is a touch screen, even void of a receiver. There is no bezel at all so you really get 100% screen real estate on the front. You have all your personal multimedia functions just like any other phone but here’s where it gets interesting. By stringing together multiple Brix, you expand the screen real estate. Suddenly video is bigger.

A temporary virtual shared folder is created to merge content between the devices until they’re disconnected or one device can be designated as the media hub and interface.

The awesome thing is the ability to endlessly string together as many Brix as you want. You can easily go from a small media player to a big screen TV.

Throw in an external audio jack, DVR functions, GPS and we have a wonder device - like for real.

Sure, the Brix phone might just be a concept at this point in time, but the idea behind this concept is definitely interesting enough to warrant a commercial production. I can imagine a group of friends having the same or compatible phone and linking them together to see the football match or nice movie on a bigger screen.

Anyway, the concept is undoubtedly cool and perspective, but from other hand I have to be honest and say that I doubt in success because another technology that is step closer to reality.

Yeah I am talking about the famous micro-projectors technology that is even more promising and some of the leading manufactures like Motorola already working on implementing this technology in their phones.