Elfoid – Creepy Humanoid Phone from Japan

Okay, the news may be old hat, but it certainly deserves a mention. Way back in 2011, Osaka University and NTT DoCoMo partnered to create Elfoid. It’s a mobile phone with a featureless face that’ll haunt you in your dreams if you stare at it even for a minute.

Elfoid measures eight inches and feels fleshy, courtesy the urethane skin that covers it. With no visible buttons to operate it, you need to get a little touchy feely with Elfoid. When in use, the buttons glow green.

Apparently, the Japanese feel that such a mobile brings a human element to a long-distance communication. If it works for them, who are we to complain?

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