This is one of the images I added to the other CE page. It is pretty hilarious now. This was from 2003. The iPod was new. No one saw the iPhone coming. This was a concept for a “digital wallet” for PayPal. The idea is that it would be a complete digital wallet and even have a digital version of your driver’s license and passport, al unlocked with a thumbprint scan. This render was featured in Mobile PC magazine in a future concept issue… while a lot of the ideas contained within it became a reality via Apple and Samsung pay, the idea of a stand alone device seams ludicrous now… hey, sometimes we get it wrong. I did follow this up 2 years later when the iPhone came out in a smart phone concept called “The One” that integrated all of these features, plus streaming movies, and was the core processor for both home and work, basically a phone plus a massive solid state hard drive with better GPU.
On that note this one made me chuckle from 2013s sketchbook. It’s almost as if this was the first client review concept sketch for an electric skateboard that eventually became the “hoverboard” when it reached the market
