Written on August 21, 2008 – 9:02 am | by Bogdan Alex |

As if the Japanese weren’t setting enough trends for every conceivable aspect of life, they now have a special design project dubbed KDDI AU that is meant to create all sorts of crazy devices that would, sooner or later, be commercialized and become a standard.

Their latest concept devices can e seen on display in Tokyo. An important segment is represented by cellphones coming in various forms and with various unique functions. A good example for this segment seems to be the Box To Play. According to DVice, this sleek concept device is sort of a combination between a cell phone, complete with the usual call and camera functionsn, and a peculiar music device which appears to include a tiny embedded turntable that allows you to scratch the music playing on the phone.

Even more, the phone also includes a neat feature that lets you transform the device into a box which displays a music visualizer similar to what we see in Winamp. But this is not the only interesting phone that KDDI came up with. There are a bunch of other crazy phones that can pe transformed into musical instruments. Go ahead and check them all out on the KDDI AU official site (it’s in Japanese, but you’ll find your way).