THE ELECTRIC KETTLETHE MOBILE PHONE

20th Century Design

The Electric Kettle, 1983.

1894. Crompton & Co. Britain.

Traditional appearance and materials.

Copper/brass with wooden handles

Premier Kettle, 1912, Fire under water

AEG- Peter Behrens, 1909.

Germany.

Choice of finish materials and shape.

First company to experiment with emersible element.

Bulpitt & Sons “Swan”, 1922

First kettle with totally immersed element.

Traditional appearance

Middle class households

Russell Hobbs 1960, Britain.

Model K2, (K1, 1956),William Russell.

Chrome plated, with black plastic.

Automatic switchStylish reputationFirst fully automatic kettle

Model K2s1971

Stainless steel

Two safely cut off points,

First company to provide parts and repair service.

Philips Alessi

Re-emergence of the jug kettle in the 70’s.

Polypropylene first plastic used for kettle body.

Water level, lime scale filter, easy cleaning.

Alessi - Michael Graves Thermoplastic

1986, the first cordless kettle.

Company imageImproved materials.Safety: cut off power when lifted from base, polymer handles that are heat resistant.

Mobile phone

The first wireless telephone calls were made from cars and trucks.

1946– Wireless Telephones

The first portable units were really big and heavy.

Large mainly because of the size of the battery that they were housed in their own briefcase

Transportable

In 1983 Motorola released the first true mobile phone.

It weighed about the same as a bag of sugar and had a battery life of only 8 hours.

It cost $3,995 and sold over 300,000 units in the first year alone.

Motorola1983 - DynaTAC 8000X

The vast majority of phones were black or dark grey with aerials and small screens.

The first clamshell cellular phone. Also one of the first display screens featured on a cell.

Motorola- Startac ,1996

Convergent Devices

Mobile phones can also be used as PDAs, MP3 players, games consoles and as devices to surf the internet.

Nokia 350i, The first internet phone

Smart Phones- iPhone or Blackberry?

2007 iPhone

Touch screen and sensor.

Blackberry more popular in the Middle East and America.

Blackberry kept the Qwerty format and tailored their phones for the demand of their customer.

Concept Phones