Take one flashlight, one set of mobile phone innards, and gently blend the two together. The result? One flashlight with a built-in mobile phone…er! Quite why you’d want a mobile phone in your flashlight is anyone’s guess, but Japanese phone company Willcom have obviously decided there’s a gap in the market that their new PHS phone will occupy all to itself (can’t really see any competitors in the flashlight/phone market rushing forward, can you?!). It even runs on two flashlight batteries – just like the real thing (gasp!).

Willcom have also announced the completely customizable (and gloriously-titled) Plamo-Phone, pics of which appear after the jump (with a Tamiya radio control car, no less)
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The Plamo Phone isn’t quite as batty as the flashlight phone. It’s simply an ordinary phone with detachable faceplates, which you can paint and customize in a similar way to how you’d customize a radio control car – hence the pic of the phone with the Tamiya.

See, all makes perfect sense! Well, must do in Japan, I guess.

[Source: PhoneDaily]