A precise notion for a BlackBerry phone called Empathy has been cooked up by designer Daniel Yoon, focusing on sharing our mood with friends. It’s a smidgen of a throwback to the early Live Journal and MySpace days, which were all about updating mood statuses, but there are some appealing twists on old ideas here. The concept embraces a high-tech mood ring which shares biometrics data with social networks. Not only can contacts see what kind of mood you’re in based information like blood pressure, body temperature, and heart rate, but message notifications on the Empathy would colour the entire facade of the handset philosophical of the mood of their sender. That same gadget surface colour idea would allocate the handset to go clear when idle and intense when active.The social networking aspect reminds me of the BlackBerry Enterprise’s Server free/busy lookup– except as opposed to seeing if your contacts obtainable for a meeting, you can see if they’re in the right mood for a call. Some Android phones already do this by showing social network status updates on incoming calls from contacts, but the idea of that data being gathered submissively is very latest. There’s also a latest navigation mechanism based on a radial wheel surrounding contacts, and pinch-zooming to finding bundled people within certain subgroups, which you can see in action in the video below. A neat idea, so long as a more straightforward border was also obtainable. The handset looks like it has a screen on both sides (one with a stud-style keyboard), which would likely be a massive battery hog, but hey, we can skip logic for a cool idea.
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