LG's Design the Future competition guarantees deluge of fanciful phone concepts

If you don't like the way phones look these days, why don't you get off your lazy behind and do something about it? LG's inviting you to do exactly that -- and what's more, there are 43 awards of various levels of awesomeness just waiting to be given away ranging from $1,000 (plus an LG phone, presumably not of your own design) all the way up to 20 grand. The Autodesk-sponsored competition claims that it'll be totally agnostic to the kinds of entries submitted -- whether they be sketches, renders, or computer-aided drafts -- instead concentrating on factors like market potential, creativity, polish and appeal, and our favorite, feasibility. Get those creative juices flowing, though, because the contest wraps up on June 8th.

[Thanks, Zach]

[APV Posted May 6th 2009 3:30PM]

Awesome, over the past few months I have been bored in study halls, and I have made many cool phone concepts...

COOL.

I want to enter now.

[MultiKdizzle Posted May 6th 2009 4:36PM]

Hella gonna enter. ANd yes, I'm from Norcal.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 5:08PM]

"Well, the spoiler reduces wind resistance... and I think these rally stripes are pretty cool."

-H Simpson

[APV Posted May 6th 2009 11:36PM]

I just finished finalizing a concept, I shall now type up some brilliant thing describing the things they want described...

hmmm..

I think I have a chance of being in one of the 43 slots.

[Steve02k7 Posted May 7th 2009 2:49AM]

met the guys from autodesk at a robotics competition in high school, and if anyone should be in charge of picking a good phone design, it's those guys

[EludiumQ36 Posted May 8th 2009 2:09PM]

Ok, um, hardware design, yeh, that's good, but soooo much of the utility of the cellphone is driven by the user-interface and supporting OS software. Seriously, the phone of the "future" will have a large LCD touchscreen, a few buttons on the front and the side, a camera, and keyboard. Oh wait, we have that now! (iPhone, Touch Pro2, Touch HD, Samsung Omnia, etc.) The future of innovation is in the user-interface, the user-experience that the software offers. Now, if they offered a competition for THAT, I'd be interested, but you guys go ahead and work your little Sketchbook Pro fingers to the bone on that special design I'm sure we haven't seen before.