Alo: the phone most unusual and futuristic… and that doesn’t seem like a phone – CNET in Spanish

Alo is a prototype old, but seems to have reached his hour thanks to advances in holographic and voice control.

Jerome Olivet

There are few concepts of phones and devices that never see the light, however Alo, the popular French designer Philippe Starck — known recently for the design of the Xiaomi Mi Mix for the company’s china — returns to the fray in a moment in which the virtual assistants and holographic technology seems to have advanced far enough.

Alo was a concept originally launched in 1995 and was even shown then in the fair IFA in Berlin, however it was very advanced for its time. Now, Starck, in conjunction with the designer Jerome Olivet, has renewed its proposal of a device based on the display of holographic images, and voice control.

According to Mashable, which cites the Website Dezeen, the device instead of having a large touch-screen display, is based on the projection of messages, videos or photos, which can be seen as a holographic three-dimensional. The equipment is fully operated using the voice control, one of the trends of the smartphone by 2017, especially since the birth of Google Assistant, and the likely launch of an artificial intelligence of Samsung.

“Alo provides a voice interface to all functions of the phone. Read SMS and emails, and even allows you to dictate messages instead of typing,” said Olivet to Dezeen.

The camera of this phone is capable of acting as an “eye”. Among other things it can allow the reader to read the texts that detect and identify faces. Also allows you project 3D holograms to watch a movie or read a message either.

Alo has a camera capable of capturing texts and read them to you, as well as to recognize faces.

Jerome Olivet

The device, which breaks the stereotypes of a phone and that looks like any future technology, alien from any door of the series Stargate, is cast-in aluminum earthling and has a clam-shell style that works with an interface haptic, which reveals a small surface on which you can write, or at least give instructions to the device without having to speak to him.

Among other things Alo can vibrate and emit lights of different colors to alert you of notifications, and at the same time has something interesting: the material of construction is repaired automatically in the event that you suffer some damage.

Alo has a screen haptic.

Jerome Olivet

Although it is currently only a prototype, the designers are working with the electronics company French Thomson, to develop a version of this computer, take advantage of the artificial intelligence today.

The site Dezeen remember that Starck has always been a designer who has criticized the screens of the phones, which led him to develop this device, although, since then it is something sarcastic, considering that it has designed one of the first phones to be practically all screen, with 91 per cent of the front of My Mix covered by the panel.

what A bad joke? If so will the phones of the future, as you will not be able to distract you in meetings playing Angry Birds or Super Mario Run.

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The phone to My Mix without bezels of Xiaomi in bright white