The Soft Phone Concept

The hot new thing in the mobile arena is electronic fabric. Well, it is if you ask designer Qian Jiang. They’ve come up with something called the Soft Phone, a concept handset made from electronic fabric.

It’s a series of discs with electronic fabric stretched in between. The interface uses a combination of tactile gestures like squeezing to hang-up and touch which detects a deformation on the surface to register input.

The fibers are fine enough and optically clear allowing light energy to pass thru to display simple contextual menus. Whenever you need a full QWERTY just unfurl the collapsible structure. The cell antenna, battery, camera, and micro electronics are contained inside a tiny clip which itself is made of soft, squeezable, stress-reducing silica.

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