Trend Edition
How to Unlock a Phone
The Astonishing Tribe, a Swedish company that specializes in creating mobile interfaces, have been experimenting with different kinds locking and unlocking mechanism on mobile phones. Interesting (well, some of them...)
Fliplock
Turn you phone upside down to lock it... which is pure genius, since this is pretty much how everyone puts their phone into their pocket anyway.
Loading video
Drag&Drop
Loading video
The Combination Lock
Loading video
Sliding
Which I think might be a better solution than the slider on Apple's iPhone
Loading video
GPS
Spin the globe to your location to unlock...
Loading video
The Drum set
Unlock you phone by playing a pre-specified drum solo
Loading video
Comments
Aku - Oct. 13, 2008
Why the hell has no-one thought of locking the phone when upside-down!? The world has not yet met a true lead designer for cell phones.
Published: Oct. 11, 2008 in User Experience
FaceBook
Twitter
LinkedIn
YouTube
Flickr
Jonathan - Oct. 12, 2008
Very nice ideas they've got there.
BTW "tat" is slang for "ugly cheap stuff" in English, which is unfortunate, if slightly funny.