{"id":10159,"date":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/celsius-x-vi-ii-and-the-mysterious-mechanical-cellphone-mechanics\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","slug":"celsius-x-vi-ii-and-the-mysterious-mechanical-cellphone-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/celsius-x-vi-ii-and-the-mysterious-mechanical-cellphone-mechanics.php","title":{"rendered":"Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone [Mechanics]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>On March 18, at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland, a vaporous French company called Celsius X-VI-II will unveil the Papillon, a $300,000 mobile phone that is packed with the most advanced micro-mechanics of any gadget ever created.<\/p>

All of this according to a recent profile in PCMag<\/a>, one that frankly raises more questions than it answers. In the piece, Celsius co-founder Alejandro Ricart offers a vague picture of his team's ambition, citing high-end Swiss watches as the inspiration for his company's ultra-luxury, mechanical mobile phone.<\/p>

\"We want to take the useful functions of the cell phone and try to re-think them, and re-create them in a mechanical way,\" he explained. One such suggested mechanism is a kinetic hinge that powers the phone when it's flipped open and closed shut.<\/p>

Sascha Segan, PCMag's reporter, seems pretty enthralled by the whole business, describing the device as a \"hand-made art-watch with more than 600 mechanical components, many of which are visible to the naked eye.\"<\/p>

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Papillon is French for \"butterfly,\" an insect that apparently inspired the design of the phone and, when you come to think of it, is sort of a strange little creature in its own right. As you can see, a butterfly floats fleetingly through the teaser clip for the phone.<\/p>

All of this is quite bizarre and potentially very dumb, like something out of a Dan Brown novel*, and it certainly feels like it could all blow away in a cloud of vapor. The x-ray shown above is the only image of the phone available. But in a genre of gadget that is almost categorically uninteresting to us, this ultra high-end device has piqued our curiosity. [Celsius X VI II<\/a> via PCMag<\/a>]<\/p>

*If Celsius's shadowy forces silence me for making all of this public, or for ripping the weird promo video from their site without permission, just FOLLOW THE SIGNS.<\/p>

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