Technabob » kyle bean http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Geek Stuff Sun, 27 May 2012 20:00:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Forget ABC Blocks, the Wooden iPhone is for Modern Toddlers http://technabob.com/blog/2011/12/07/wooden-iphone-for-kids/ http://technabob.com/blog/2011/12/07/wooden-iphone-for-kids/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:15:14 +0000 Conner Flynn http://technabob.com/blog/?p=76024 Kids today. They don’t want old-fashioned wood blocks with ABCs and numbers on them. Who wants to learn while you are drooling all over yourself and pooping your diaper? Babies want an iPhone 4S (or an iPad 2). In fact, if they had the strength and coordination, they would snatch yours from your clammy hands and knock you out while they played with it.

wooden iphone toy
Since they can’t, and since iPhones are too expensive for babies, here’s the perfect gift. This wooden iPhone, created by Kyle Bean and Thomas Forsyth. Not that you can buy one at this point. Sadly this is just a cool design – appearing on the cover of the December 2011 issue of Computer Arts magazine. Though I hope it becomes a real toy. Each of the blocks represents an app. How cool is that?

wooden iphone apps

Really, this is a cool toy for the adults, who will allow the kids to play with it from time-to-time. Sure it looks all clean and awesome now. but once you give it to your little ankle-weight, it will soon be covered in drool and snot, and that beautiful wood will be all dinged and dented up with toothmarks. Kids. This is why we can’t have anything nice.

]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2011/12/07/wooden-iphone-for-kids/feed/ 0 Kyle Bean’S Evolution of the Mobile Phone in Papercraft http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/18/kyle-bean-mobile-phone-evolution-papercraft/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/18/kyle-bean-mobile-phone-evolution-papercraft/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:02:40 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=15234 Mobile Evolution…, an intricate set of nesting models from cardboard. See how each phone fits neatly inside it’s older, larger sibling?]]> This amazing work of paper art envisions the evolution of the mobile phone using the style of those classic Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls.

cell phone nesting dolls

Artist/Designer/Illustrator Kyle Bean recently created Mobile Evolution, an intricate set of nesting models from cardboard. See how each phone fits neatly inside it’s older, larger sibling?

matryoshka cell phones

nesting cell phones

Designs start with the classic late 1980s Motorola DynaTAC “brick” phone and take us all the way up to the Apple iPhone (though I’m not sure if that’s the 3GS there). See if you can name all the phones without cheating.

mobile evolution

Be sure to check out the video clip over on Kyle’s portfolio page to see how they all fit together.

And if you happen to be in the UK, you can see Mobile Evolution in person for the next couple of weeks over at the YCN Building at 72 Rivington Street in London.

[via Creative Review via Tina Paterson via Wired via Gadget Venue (phew!)]

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