A smartphone made out of bamboo has been designed by a British student. Kieron-Scott Woodhouse, from Shepherds Bush in London, plans to release his product in the UK and throughout Europe later this year.
The 23-year-old, who studies product design at Middlesex University, was frustrated with the lack of variety in the mobile phone market so designed the bamboo handset in his own time. Made from four-year-old organically-grown bamboo, which has been specially treated to ensure durability, the ADzero runs on the Android operating system and is about half the size of an iPhone.
Like many phones it will include a camera, but ADzero features technology called a ‘ring flash’ not available on any current mobile phone.