Indiegogo concepts are always a bit out there , and this one ’s no exception : Portal , a six - column inch humanoid - power smartphonethat ’s imposingly up to , rainproof , and whippy enough to fag on your wrist like Buzz Lightyear ’s communicator . Forget smartwatches , this baby ’s a goddamned gantlet .
Judging by the specs , Portal ’s creators do n’t need to roil out some mid - range machine : The Android - power machine would volunteer 64 GB of storage , four television camera , and the pièce de résistance , a six - column inch elastic constitutional TFT showing . All of it would ( hypothetically ) jam into a flexible , morphable , warpable body that would express mirth at yourworries about bending it against your buttcheek .
Okay , so you probably do n’t want to whip your smartphone to your wrist with two watch ring . That ’s more cumbersome thanthe most bulky and overgrown of smartwatches .
But you ’ve got ta admit , in a creation of slimly - chamfer glowing rectangle smartphones that all look fairly much identical from 20 foot away , there ’s something charming about the temerity of a waterproofed smartphone you may lash to your forearm likea Roman soldier ’s vambrace .
Is it venturesome enough to extend to reality ? Well , the track record for crowdfunded dream machines is pretty bleak . And make a truly game - changing smartphone is a tall parliamentary procedure — especially for a company thatwants to build them right here in the U.S.A.
But I kinda hope they succeed . I may not wear a six - column inch smartphone on my forearm ( nor even the four - column inch mini model they go for to bring in next ) , but I ’d gladly fool around with a phone that could literally bounce back from a declension to the floor unscathed . [ IndiegogoviaCNet ]
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