I have to admit that I pick up random objects and pretend that they are my cell phones. Cups, bananas, shoes, toys, headsets, watermelons, umbrellas, cats, hamsters, but never would I have thought of picking up teddy bears.

Well, Japanese cellular provider Wilcom presented Kuma phone at the 2008 Good Design Expo. Its a teddy bear phone with a SIM card inside and by squeezing or grabbing the cub’s paw you can call someone. Of course you need to store speed dial numbers on each paw.

It is 500 US dollars per unit. Or you can find your old teddy bear and pretend you are talking on the phone. Anyway, it’s all same, if you are in the metro with a brown teddy bear in your arms. Or if you talk on the Kuma teddy bear in front of your boss. No one will think anything of it. I do it all the time with my Rabbit.

Photo credit: CScoutjapan.com

As promised I made the test! Remember? Last week I was wondering whether the videos of the guys making popcorn with their cell phones were a fake or not. So today, together with a few colleagues, I made the test!

Unfortunately we didn’t have popcorn in the office, so we tried the experiment with my cold coffee. You should know that I drink about 10 cups a day  - usually cold! I let you watch the video of the experiment…

What a deception! So really it is bull****… To be honest I knew that already. I learned that the videos were made to promote a Bluetooth device. Nice buzz guys ;-)) Everybody talked about it. But it was still a deception to learn that it doesn’t work.

Anyway, stay tuned for the next experiment…