Technabob » ntt http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:31:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Q-Pot Chocolate Bar Smartphone for Candy-Coated Calling http://technabob.com/blog/2012/01/31/q-pot-chocolate-bar-smartphone/ http://technabob.com/blog/2012/01/31/q-pot-chocolate-bar-smartphone/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000 Range http://technabob.com/blog/?p=82195 The Japanese do come up with some strange technology. The Chocolate Q-Pot Phone, which was designed by Tadaaki Wakamatsu and NTT DoCoMo, is going to be released in Japan as a special Valentine’s Day smartphone. Does that mean you’ll only use it on that particular day? Nope, the Q-Pot Phone is designed help you get your chocolate fix whenever you answer your phone.

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It’s official name is the SH-04D and it’s part of the DoCoMo ‘With’ series of collaborative phone designs. It runs a custom Android 2.3 interface, pre-loaded with a chocolate-themed game and wallpapers. It even comes with a “Chocobed” recharging station, that’s been designed to look like a chocolate box. How cute.

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The actual phone is produced by Sharp and only 30,000 units will be made. This phone will sell for ¥40,000 (~$521 USD). Now that’s expensive chocolate!

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[via designboom]

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The SO703i Sony Bravia Aroma Phone will offer a variety of interchangeable aroma “sheets” that will keep your phone smelling fresh as the day you bought it. We can only hope they don’t base their scent selection on the old Odorama scratch-and-sniff cards from John Water’s classic Polyester, which included such lovely aromas as gasoline, pizza, glue, grass, and poo.

[via Gizmodo]

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