Rest easy, folks: you know it’s pointy during the bottom, though we’ve been positive this isn’t a BlackBerry 7100’s true inheritor. Instead, a so-called Empathy is the weird outcome of of a RIM-sponsored design plan at the Art Center College of Design that touts its capability to detect the emotions of its user and his or her contacts. It’s not exactly transparent how it’d do that, but one consequential element is a biometric feedback ring which communicates your frustration at the phone’s inability to scrupulously sync IMAP accounts in genuine time. All of this anger and happiness is displayed on a amicable map — colored rings prove your contacts’ previous as well as stream romantic states — that is presented upon a full touchscreen that can turn transparent when the phone’s not in use. Prefer the Bold to a Storm, do you? Turn a phone around, as well as bang, you’ve got a single of a scariest seeking portrait QWERTY keyboards a world has ever seen. We don’t really expect saying this chiseled slab of bleeding-heart technology in RIM’s lineup any time shortly… though you can really see the benefit to meaningful when your BBM contacts are ready to put a fist through a wall. Follow the break for video.

Via Engadget