Buzz Watch: Flat Phones and Pink Playstations

Authored by Jay Baage on August 21, 2006 - 8:49am.

Browsing through the new product concepts being discussed in the blogosphere this morning, I came across two interesting ones. The button-less flat panel cell phone and a pink version of PS2 soon to be released in the U.K.

Take a look at this picture from Engadget.com of the Onyx, a prototype handset that Synaptics and Pilotfish put together that uses Synaptics' new ClearPad touch screen. The prototype has all kinds of cool features like the ability to close an application by drawing an "X" over it with your finger. You can reportedly also send messages by swiping them off the screen and answer a call simply by placing the phone against your cheek. Synaptics is planning to make ClearPad available to manufacturers around the end of the year, so it will probably be years before you can buy one in the store. I don’t know about you, but I want one, preferably branded Bang&Olofsen.

This is another picture I found on Engadget, it is of a new pink version of the Sony Playstation 2 to be released in the U.K. by the end of the year. Like they say, a picture says more than a thousand words. Video games are not just for boys anymore. A Kaiser Family Foundation study showed that boys still spend more than twice as much time playing video games as girls, but this is also a market opportunity. Just look at the success that Motorola has had with the pink Razr cell phones. I mean Paris Hilton has one. Need to say more?