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Pocket-Peeping Handsets

The Glance Smartphone Enables Hands-Free Notification Monitoring

— January 24, 2012 — Tech
A pair of cellphone-related behaviors which are quite opposite yet equally socially taboo are the practices of checking your device either too often or too infrequently. The Glance smartphone has been designed so that its user need not fall into either category.

What makes Alan Gerardo Farias' model different from the handsets currently on the market is that, across one short end, it has a screen which provides a summary of received messages, emails and calls. Broader than the Glance smartphone's other edge, this one is meant to stick slightly out of the pocket of your pants or your purse, allowing you to quickly glimpse any notifications without rudely pulling your mobile phone out all the time, or lazily leaving its muffled alerts in your laptop bag.
Trend Themes
1. Glance Smartphone - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Designing smartphones with a screen on one short end for easily glancing at notifications without constantly checking the device.
2. Hands-free Notification Monitoring - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing technologies that enable users to receive and monitor notifications without constantly pulling out their mobile phones.
3. Summary Screen Integration - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Integrating summary screens into smartphones to provide users with a quick overview of received messages, emails, and calls.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Creating new smartphone designs and features that enhance user convenience and reduce the need for constant device checking.
2. Wearable Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing wearable devices that enable hands-free notification monitoring and provide convenient access to important information.
3. Smart Accessories - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Designing smart accessories, like pocket clips, that offer quick, glanceable notifications without the need to constantly check mobile devices.
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