THE FIRST
CARBON FIBRE
PHONE, IT’S
6.3MM THIN
AND WEIGHS
JUST 125G
ORIGINAL PILOT
MATERIALS
OFairphone 3
The chassis of the Fairphone 3
isn’t just transparent because it
looks cool – it’s also a nod to the
responsibly sourced, recycled
materials used to make it. And
it’s modular, making it easier to
repair rather than throwing the
whole thing away.
OADzero
Back in 2012, a student at
Middlesex University designed
a phone made of bamboo that
weighed about half as much as
an iPhone 4. Sadly it never made
it into production, probably due
to too much pressure from a
panda-based lobby group.
OVertu Boucheron 150
Vertu was famous for cladding
its phones in weird stuff and
charging a fortune for them,
but it surely peaked with the
solid gold Boucheron 150.
Released in 2008, it took
2000 hours to make and cost
£30,000, which makes the
Carbon 1 seem like a bargain.
OK boomer
ULTIMATE EARS HYPERBOOM
Looking forward to the new Xbox coming out? So is Ultimate Ears, by
the looks of it. How else do you explain the decidedly One X-esque
cuboid styling of its new Hyperboom Bluetooth speaker? It’s three
times as loud, six times as bassy and about four times as big as the
Megaboom 3; and if you’ve got a playlist that’s guaranteed to get any
party started, the Hyperboom’s one-touch controls can summon it
with a single press. Despite its fabric coat it’s also IPX4-rated, so you
won’t have to worry about it frying itself if it accidentally takes a sip of
somebody’s homebrew, and with a 24-hour battery there’s a pretty
good chance it’ll still be going long after you’re partied out, dude.
$400 / ultimateears.comEasy cam, easy go (again)
LOMOGRAPHY SIMPLE USE FILM CAMERA
Lomo doesn’t do normal. Its cameras and lenses are often deliberately
wonky, leaking light and distorting your snaps in search of uniquely
quirky shots. And now, in its quest to buck yet another trend, its new
disposable camera isn’t actually disposable. The Simple Use Film
Camera looks exactly like the kind of throwaway snapper you’d buy
at the airport and eventually drop off at Snappy Snaps six months
later; but once you’ve clicked through 36 frames of the pre-loaded
LomoChrome Metropolis film, you can simply reload it with any of
the others that take your fancy. It even comes with three blendable
colour gel flash filters to mix up your shots. Say cheese.
£22 / lomography.com