MWC 2025: All the Strange, Bizarre and Wonderful Gadgets and Concepts
each year Mobile World Congress We’ve seen cool new technologies, and at MWC 2025, there are many funky gadgets that extend the meaning of the word “mobile technology”.
MWC 2025 Collection Weird phonebut usually they have variations on standardized flat rectangles. Other gadgets are more free, and the ones we see at the show cover a range of categories, from smart rings to street wear to projectors that fit your pocket.
like Telephone In the show, some of the more bizarre gadgets are concept devices designed to be proof of concept gadgets, rather than prototypes before later production. Some of these gadgets are coming, and some may never reach the store shelves, but they all prompt the industry to re-examine the possibilities of the technology we carry and wear.
This is our favorite gadget and MWC 2025 concept.
This is the body of the Anker Solix concept jacket as it charges the phone.
Solar Jedi Robe
Mobile-Accessories Company Anker has many traditional products, from battery packs to earbuds. But the company’s solar and energy branch, Anker Solix, has something else on MWC: jacket A solar cell covered with cables that charge your device like a Jedi of some kind of technology future when you put on your coat.
Yes, long solar panels extend from the back and back of the sleeves and jacket, and blue LED lights ring to make you look like a character. Cyberpunk 2077. But when you charge the device from a 30-watt USB-C cable, who cares what others think of? Compared to us, you really start from the future.
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Lenovo’s PC control smart ring concept
We’ve seen a lot of smart rings, e.g. Ula Ring 4 and Three Stars Galaxy Ringwhich mainly tracks health and fitness as a smartwatch support or even completely replaces. Lenovo’s concept AI smart ring It’s different. It allows users to control a 3D laptop.
Concept ring and association Thinkbook 3D laptop (It is also a concept device at the moment), which has a directional 3D backlighting that allows 2D and 3D content to appear on the screen at the same time. You can manipulate this with Lenovo’s concept AI smart ring: double-click forward with your thumb, single-click, return or swipe to navigate. The ring detects movement even without tapping, such as touching the thumb and index finger (similar to Apple Watch Ultra 2double click function).
At MWC 2025, CNET’s Katie Collins was able to use a ring to control the 3D model of the T. Rex, a cool demonstration of the power accessories connected to nearby laptops, although both are concept devices, we had to wait and see when the technology would incorporate it into the product on the market.
The cinema is in your pocket.
Foldable projector for your pocket
Tired of your little phone screen? Is there a blank wall? You may enjoy using movies, TV shows and games Aurzen ZIP projectora pocket projector, only a little larger than a foldable phone with a snow-capped snow sign Galaxy Z Flip 6 or Motorola Razr. It even has a one-to-one-watt speaker.
Zipper projector is 3 inches on each side, 1 inch thick and weighs approximately iPhone 16 Pro Max (approximately 227 grams). When folded, it looks like an old Nintendo DS that unfolds on both hinges, tilts its lens wherever you point, and casts content through an HDMI dongle and creates pictures up to 80 inches wide. While its maximum 720 pixel resolution may look a little blurry on full size, Aurzen hopes to knock it to 1080p in the next release.
HMD’s earbuds offer reverse charging.
HMD’s earbud case can charge your phone
HMD showed it Ear plugsexcept for some futuristic designs, this is not special. But their case is a palm-sized metal-wrapped wedge that brings the cake to the cake: it can be twice as good as a 16,000-mAh battery and can reverse wirelessly charge your phone. For comparison, this capability can fully flesh out your standards iPhone 16 About three times. Assuming you have the largest case of earplugs, it’s neat and practical.
Samsung’s Moohan headphones project is back.
Moohan project, Google and Samsung’s XR headsets run Gemini
Google and Samsung’s long-term high-end XR headsets are Revealed in December last yearis now being shown to the public. The code runs the Android XR operating system for MOOHAN, VR and AR headsets and supports standard Google Play apps as well as Google Gemini. We still don’t have more specs, let alone price or release date, but Google and Samsung’s new headphones seem comfortable to take them to the tour and get the public to see for the first time.
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