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Design experts say that a backlash is brewing against all the buttons on gadgets like cell phones. A children's mobile phone from Firefly, pictured here, is designed to account for the fact that a child will primarily be calling mommy and daddy.
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..ok, what about single parents discrimination?
I have to take issue with their giving USB cheers. Standard USB plugs have too much symetry; about half the time, when I'm plugging in a USB item, the plug won't go in because it's upside down. If the designers of USB's hardware interface would simply have tried it for a while before releasing it in its current form, they would have made it obviously asymetric enough that inverted plug-ins wouldn't happen as often. All they had to do was to make it a trapazoid, and that would have helped. Or even better, make a co-linear pin like headphones, so it doesn't matter what direction you plug it in. To solve the problem of accidentally closing circuits in the course of plugging in the switch, have an activation switch at the bottom of the shaft that doesn't turn on the signal or any electrical currents that might short circuit until the plug is all the way in, placing all the contacts are in the right positions.
Really like the concept and execution behind this child's phone. My only thought is the 911 button seems almost too accessible. I get the visual of loads of accidental calls being placed to Emergency. Perhaps a single button that "pops" a lower portion of the phone open to reveal another, bigger red button. Almost Inspector Gadget-like, but also makes sense to me. Bravo otherwise.