Race Your Mobile Phone!
March 7th, 2005

Mobile Technology weblog reports on an obvious, useless, and probably wildly popular idea: wheels for your phone. Combine these with flash mobs, and you could have hordes of people showing up in public places to….race their phones!

Zoomphone

Not that we ever doubted that we’re obsessed with mobiles, as a culture. But if you had missed it…

Firstly, from Japan, we have Keitai Vyuun (via Gizmondo) which means, roughly, “mobile zoom”. What you get is a pair of stick-on wheels for your mobile, which you can wind up and race….presumably against other mobile phones.

Something so utterly pointless is going to be mega-huge this Summer.

Mobile Technology weblog reports on an obvious, useless, and probably wildly popular idea: wheels for your phone. Combine these with flash mobs, and you could have hordes of people showing up in public places to….race their phones!

Not that we ever doubted that we’re obsessed with mobiles, as a culture. But if you had missed it…
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Comments
1 - NineShift

Nice story. As the web is developing just like the automobile did 100 years ago, I have a picture of an auto sitting on top, but not breaking, an egg.

This was advertised as an advantage of this particular auto, sorta like a wireless phone with wheels.