Blackberry Empathy, a Product Concept by RIM

The new concept phone from RIM, here is Blackberry Empathy. It is part of collaboration with the Art Center College of Design and designed by Daniel Yoon. It comes in unique design with diamond shapes on both up and bottom sides of the phone. The front side of Blackberry Empathy will feature full OLED touchscreen display that remains transparent when it is not in use. The other side will feature a standard portrait QWERTY keyboard. Those features will surely appear awkward for most of people, but those are things that make this phone really interesting.

Blackberry Empathy

Another exciting feature of Blackberry Empathy is its capability of integrate real human emotions with social networking. To get full performance, Blackberry Empathy includes a mood ring that will show moods in various colors based on blood pressure, body temperature, skin secretions and heart rate. This mood is integrated on each of your contacts, so you will know your friends moods once they are wearing the ring. As you are wearing the ring, your mood will automatically appears on your friend’s contact. In that case, your friends will know whether they can go right away greet you and send message or leave you alone because you are in sad and fragile mood. The mood colors will appear on the whole surface of the phone. It is also integrated in the phone’s keypad that will change color according to your emotional state. When you type message, the ring will convert your mood and send it together with your message. It also goes when you received a message; a series of colors will appear as a reflection of sender’s mood.

Furthermore, Blackberry Empathy allows you to connect straightaway to popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Surely, those will include your emotional mood as well as other moods that have Blackberry Empathy and wear the ring. As you enter a conversation room, there will be a visual timeline appears showing you the moods of all users.

To access all features coming with Blackberry Empathy, just touch everywhere on the screen. Once you touch the screen, it will pop out a radial tabbed control wheel surrounding each of your contact consisting of most common uses features such as SMS, email, contacts, music and camera. Rather than tap on the feature’s icons, you have to pull the tab out of its radial wheel control to get access.

Blackberry Empathy is also easy to use although it is equipped by latest and high technology. To start using the phone and share your mood, just wear the ring and then log on to your favorite social networks. Once you are connected, you can start right away to share thoughts as well as moods among your friends. On the other hand, if you do not want to share your mood with others, just simply remove the ring from your finger.  

Overall, Blackberry Empathy is a very interesting concept phone by RIM. It may not be come soon because no technologies that can accomplish this feature yet. However, it does not mean that it will never come to reality.