Clever Nested Dolls Show The Progress Of Technology

 Design

British designer Kyle Bean has made a series of nesting dolls inspired by the rapid progress of technology in mobile phones.  The design is a clever interpretation our handheld devices, which have steadily shrunk from the original car phone monstrosities.

It is always interesting to see how much technology has changed over time. The first mobile phones look ridiculous by today's standards and while the Nokia candybar style phone is popular in the developing world, it's almost unrecognisably different from the iPhone toted around by millions.

Now, British designer Kyle Bean has tackled the evolution of technology with a cool project that imagines the evolution of mobile phones through the design of a Russian nesting doll. It starts with the amazing DynaTAC, the famous gray brick cell phone featured in Wall Street, when it was still luxurious and glamorous to be carrying such a device. The products evolve straight on down past the candybars and flip phones, until we arrive at the iPhone, the latest evolution.

"I was working at a shop selling all kinds of technology products at the end of my degree in Brighton when I had the idea," Bean told Core77. "Working in this environment got me thinking about how quickly technology evolves. I did a bit of research and discovered that mobile technology had only existed during my lifetime, and yet the advancements had developed so rapidly."

Design is a great way to not just visualize but make physical the rapid growth of technology. Says Bean: "Understandably, a lot of people are confused as to its exact 'use'. For example, many think that it is a toy that you can buy. It is actually just a one off model that I made and exhibit from time to time. The images that I have of it though have been used to illustrate various articles about technology around the world.".

SOURCE  Core77

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