Papipo is a cellphone designed for the kids market - developed jointly by Willcom (phone company) and Bandai. The product design itself is pretty run-of-the-mill - a simple, easily customizable phone for all your Hello-Kitty and Manga upgrading needs.

It’s one of the games inside that got my attention.

This phone features a “coloring-the-picture” type of game - those typical ones where each segment is denoted by a particular number - the difference though, lies in the way the colors are chosen.

Instead of coming off a standard software palette, the kid would have to take a photo of something that has that color (pretty similar to another very interesting concept, the IO Brush).

Now isn’t that a whole lot more exciting - searching high and low in school and the house hunting the right shade for your Power Ranger Megazord!

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