URSLA & BERTHA : A future mobile device with a 3D holographic touchpad

Computing giants IBM have predicted that 3D hologram technology could be made available in cellphones in the coming five years. As that sounds, we’re still not convinced that it would support the kind of functionality that this particular futuristic cellphone imagines. The cellphone concept by designer Mac Funamizu is basically composed of two devices that interact with each other and provide a whole new dimension to both cellphone usage as well as cellphone technology.

URSLA & BERTHA

The two-part concept features a high tech pendant-like device called URSLA which serves as a futuristic projector capable of producing 3D holographic images in front of the user. The device would be capable of flashing notifications received on the cellphone like emails, texts, incoming calls, etc, in front of the user for a few seconds.

While that sounds feasible enough, what we have a hard time imagining is that the BERTHA, the cellphone that is synced with the pendant, could also be operated with the 3D image. So not only will the URSLA be a projection in mid-air, it would also allow users a touch-pad like capacity within the holographic image itself.

As delicious as it sounds, it really is bumming to know that such a cellphone can not exist until technology can be evolved to an extend that would allow us to manipulate 3D holograms and we imagine that would require something like plasma to be generated from the projectors beaming these images in the air to provide a touch-enabled surface. Sounds like a very long shot, but if it does ever happen, we’re sure someone somewhere would surely find a way to use it for evil also.

Via: Petitinvention