{"id":368923,"date":"2010-02-26T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5481533"},"modified":"2010-02-26T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:20:00","slug":"celsius-x-vi-ii-and-the-mysterious-mechanical-cellphone-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368923","title":{"rendered":"Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone [Mechanics]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>On March 18, at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland, a vaporous French company called Celsius X-VI-II will unveil the Papillon, a $300,000 mobile phone that is packed with the most advanced micro-mechanics of any gadget ever created.<\/p>\n

All of this according to a recent profile in PCMag<\/a>, one that frankly raises more questions than it answers. In the piece, Celsius co-founder Alejandro Ricart offers a vague picture of his team’s ambition, citing high-end Swiss watches as the inspiration for his company’s ultra-luxury, mechanical mobile phone.<\/p>\n

“We want to take the useful functions of the cell phone and try to re-think them, and re-create them in a mechanical way,” he explained. One such suggested mechanism is a kinetic hinge that powers the phone when it’s flipped open and closed shut.<\/p>\n

Sascha Segan, PCMag’s reporter, seems pretty enthralled by the whole business, describing the device as a “hand-made art-watch with more than 600 mechanical components, many of which are visible to the naked eye.”<\/p>\n