Live From CES: Phone With an Identity Crisis Is Cool, Anyway

The iCEphone, developed by a company unfortunately called The Medical Phone, is a strange mish-mash of features and one of the weirder items to be seen at this year's CES. First, the thing has a unique three-part form factor, with three slabs attached side-to-side by funky hinges that let the slabs fold either way--like a Z or like an S--and are stiff enough to hold the phone in any of those configurations (see the video if this doesn't make any sense). The phone is ruggedized (including rubber bumpers), fairly large and bulky, and comes in bright colors like fuchsia and orange. It has built-in medical monitoring, a touchscreen, a trackpad, gaming features like multiple "triggers," and a full qwerty keyboard, including the bonus Windows keys that let you perform such feats as the famous ctrl-alt-delete. What, you may wonder, the hell is going on here? The thing is that the ...