Old School GPS? Eat Your Heart Out, SteamPunk

We’re all aware of the SteamPunk phenomenon – time-rich nerd takes high tech device and fancies it up with some Victorian apparel. But sometimes going just a little old school is all that’s required.

The Compass Phone is a device designed by HaYeon Yoo. We’re off to a rocky start, since the device clearly has no actual phone functionality. So.. it’s a compass.

But not just any compass. It’s a compass that instead of pointing north, points to your friend and lets you know their distance and direction.

Through this ingenious collaboration of cutting edge technology and old school, no-nonsense cool stuff, any two people holding these devices can know exactly where each other is at any given time.

Of course, the device is a design prototype only, meant to explore the concept of mobile communications as a surveillance tool or “digital leash”.

Could this be the next Foursquare or Gowalla?

Paper Tweets, Handly Like A Paper Calculator

Reading the headline there’s few surprises here for those bothered to read on.

Someone has invented the Paper Tweet.

You know those notepads that every office buys in the hope that phone messages will be taken more efficiently that no one ever, ever uses?

Well, now there’s another kind that no one will ever use as the makers intended.

The note takes all the features of Twitter, and removes every single ounce of usefulness from each and every one of them.

You can direct message someone, or simply tweet. Which predictably in paper format become the same thing.

In offices all around North America, childish nerdy people will waste thousands of man hours on this, and trees everywhere will wait in anguish for the trend to pass.

Old School GPS? Eat Your Heart Out, SteamPunk

Paper Tweets, Handly Like A Paper Calculator

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