Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone

As part of the company's Concept Series, Mozilla and designer Billy May have collobarated on a sleek conceptual phone named the Seabird, complete with projected keyboards and motion capture

By Larry Dignan, Contributor on Sept. 24, 2010

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Mozilla Labs' Concept Series is a fine example of crowdsourcing. Working from a bunch of concepts submitted by the Mozilla community to the project's blog, designer Billy May cooked up the Seabird smartphone.

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The Seabird is designed to eradicate a few "frustrating physical interactions" involved in inputting data into a phone by tossing in motion capture and projected keyboards.

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With its pico projectors, the Seabird laid flat could function as a netbook.

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Plugged into a dock, the Seabird could provide a separate projected display and keyboard.

The smartphone is a concept only and does not mean that Mozilla has any plans to move into hardware, according to Concept Series' blog post.

This ZDNet UK-selected story originally appeared as Mozilla cooks up one sweet phone concept on ZDNet.com.

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