Nokia Concept Designs: Zero Waste Charger, People First, and Wears in,not out concept

Nokia Concept Designs: Zero Waste Charger, People First, and Wears in, not out concept. Nokia’s advanced design team shared “Homegrown”, a long term research project looking at how Nokia can help people make more sustainable choices in Central London at their new studio (picture). The team is exploring specific environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and how to make the benefits of mobile technology available to more people.

> Zero Waste Charger concept - this explores ways to reduce the energy that is wasted when chargers are unplugged from a mobile device but left plugged into a live mains socket.

> People First concept – this concept takes three human universals of the way people think about communication – time, lists, and people – to inspire and examine new user interface ideas. That is simply a list of people you communicate with based on your last interaction with said person.

> Wears in, not out concept – as more services become available on our mobile devices this concept explores how people could potentially upgrade their devices digitally rather than physically in the future, giving people an additional choice on how they use and update their mobile phones.

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