The Empathy concept phone is a brainchild of a project RIM sponsored at the Art Center College of Design. The design of the phone is pretty slick if RIM could pull something like that off but I would never want to drop it… On the other hand the concept behind the phone is really odd. The idea is that it is supposed to “detect emotional data” through some magic ring and show both your emotions and your contacts and social graph.


It is of course touch based and all the user’s connections are shown graphically so you can see who is connected to whom. Each contact has an avatar that is encompassed by two colored rings. The inner colored ring shows the contact’s previous emotional state, and the outer ring represents the contact’s current emotional state. It is important to show the shift in emotions in order to see how an event has affected that contact.



Another important feature that we felt was important was the “Emotional Health Chart”. This chart would monitor the user’s emotional health through an indefinite period of time. One would be able to see how a certain event, or phone call/ message has affected the user. Obviously, if the chart shows someone is always upset, there would be a problem… If permitted, a user would be able to view other user’s charts as well.

would be nice if a nollywood movie could be made about it,

we nigerians are rather short on empathy for our fellow women especially when it comes to relationship tangles.

tpia@:
would be nice if a nollywood movie could be made about it,

we nigerians are rather short on empathy for our fellow women especially when it comes to relationship tangles.

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The shape of that phone is very odd. It looks like a windup.

This phone was a concept blackberry never made and are not planning on making

d-hammer:
This phone was a concept blackberry never made and are not planning on making

Babalegba: The shape of that phone is very odd. It looks like a windup.

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