SensoryMetrics

This was a concept that tried to break the rules of cell phone design. The industrial design was created by Laura Mahan. It featured a number of wearable options (shown here configured as a necklace.) The strap also embedded soundbeam-type speakers which provided private, headphone-less audio. The UI avoided the typical boxes, pointers and menus – replaced by more organic, multi-modal UIs. The interaction blended animated graphics, touch, and 3-D audio.

In our promotional pitch to raise development funds for PeopleLink, we wanted to showcase it as a truly new generation of communication products for a new generation of mobile users. The “big idea” was to demonstrate PeopleLink as an extention of body art (yeah – body art – piercings, tattoos, etc.) To us, we thought that PeopleLink would fit right into the young nomadic culture. Unfortunately at the time, conservative Nortel wasn’t too impressed with the target market – or our PG13-rated slide presentation!

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