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Two Brix are better than one 29 Aug 2007

What if you could combine mobile phones (lego-stylee) to get more screen real estate? Well, then you'd have Seok won Hong's "Brix" my friend:

Nine Brix phones connected together to create a large 'video wall' upon which a football match is being shown. A tenth phone has been added to display the score / various match stats.

A diagram showing the different ways that Brix might be connected together - e.g. in a 4x3 configuration or four phones stacked side-by-side.

From Yanko Design:

"First and foremost, Brix is a phone. The entire surface is a touchscreen, even void of a receiver. There is no bezel at all so you really get 100% screen real estate on the front. You have all your personal multimedia functions just like any other phone but here's where it gets interesting. By stringing together multiple Brix, you expand the screen real estate. Suddenly video is bigger. A temporary virtual shared folder is created to merge content between the devices until they're disconnected or one device can be designated as the media hub and interface. The awesome thing is the ability to endlessly string together as many Brix as you want. You can easily go from a small media player to a big screen TV. Throw in an external audio jack, DVR functions, GPS and we have a wonder device - like for real."

[via Baekdal]

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1 comment so far

David Airey 29 Aug 2007 03:09 PM

Nice! Now all I need to do is buy me one, then get all my football loving friends to buy one too, then all get together somewhere remote when there's a footy match on.

Thanks for posting.

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