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Design: Motorola 2033

June 15th, 2009

Since the end of last year, Motorola has been developing a project called Motorola 2033. In it, designers from five different offices of the company dedicate a little of their time to think about possible innovations in mobile communication for the next 25 years.

Motorola points to a future that mixes augmented reality and cloud computing. In their official release, the company affirms that people will live conected, in human enviroments that will work as interfaces, abolishing the use of softwares as we know.

Take a look at some of the projects developed by Motorola 2033 designers and presented at the wonderful design site Core 77.

The english project 2nd Sight works as a type of nasal prosthetics and it would serve to connect reality with avatars and other similar kind of information, blurring the barrier between the “real” and the “virtual” worlds. In the same style, they also present Communidad, the south american project, which transforms all space that is empty in a potential interactive surface.

Besides those, there are two proposals which work with form alteration to get different functions in a same object. The north american Origami, which works with the concept of being some type of tecnological paper sheet wich can be folded to assume different functions like: telephone, camera, voice recorder, etc.

Similar to that ideia, there is Metamorphose, another south american project, which would change its shape when shaken. The emphasis of this concept is to work as a profissional bussiness card that would interact with other utilitaries, exchanging information. In the same sense, the chinese Yangsheng also proposes the exchange of information and other types of interaction.

At last, from Seoul comes the futuristic Tender, whose image is the first one shown in this post. The proposed object would float around the user, reading gestures and voice commands, to act as a communication tool and also alert about potential dangers.