Insane Samsung invention crosses Galaxy S7 with a surfboard

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No, it's apparently not April 1.
Photo: Samsung

Imagine that you’re in a Samsung team meeting. You’ve been asked to come up with unique ideas for a Galaxy S7 case and, because it’s late in the day and all the good ideas have already been voiced, you start coming up with joke suggestions.

Since everyone seems to love giant smartphones, you quip that some people might like it if you created a case the size of a surfboard. People could even use it for real, since the S7 is water-resistant. You look at the rest of the group, expecting someone to laugh. Your boss doesn’t crack a smile. Then he reaches for his phone and you fear that you’re out of a job.

“I’ve got a member of my team down here who deserves a massive raise,” he says.

Okay, so that story is (probably) fictitious, but how else to explain the Galaxy Surfboard: an apparently all-too-real concept which just debuted on Samsung Mobile Brazil’s YouTube channel.

A cross between the phablet (except way, way bigger) and the current trend for fitness-tracking devices, the “Samsung Galaxy Surfboard” makes you long for the days when Samsung was seemingly content to borrow Apple’s ideas for smartphones.

When will it ship? Who knows — but the fact that I can’t work out whether “ship” is some kind of pun in this case shows how addled I am by this beautifully insane concept.

Here’s a video of it in action:

Via: Redmond Pie

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