January 14, 2008
Designer: Lee Young Don is showing off the Saverclip concept.
The Saverclip device reads electric usage on any power cable it's clipped onto. The device works by reading the electromagnetic fields emitted by said devices. Conversely, this is also how it recharges itself. The embedded LCD displays information in terms so you clearly understand just how much power you're using.
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January 13, 2008
Designer Marcos Breder is showing off the Snap! concept. Snap! is a USB flash drive that looks like a domino .Each white dot denotes 1 gig of memory used.
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Designer Ryan Han's Bello is a concept device that mixes the simplicity of hand gestures with deep navigation
Han wanted to create a portable media player anyone could use. You have finger swipes and flicks but also the novel ideas of shaking and pouring. Shaking the player turns all your files to iconic pieces of paper you can stack and organize. Tipping the player over another (like a teapot) initiates a file transfer.
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January 9, 2008
Designer Samgmin Bae has designed the clothTag concept aimed making caring for clothes a lot easier.
Using RFID technology the tags can communicate with RFID enabled washers, dryers, irons, presses, and dry cleaning equipment.
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January 8, 2008
An apple fan has created a mockup of an Apple MacBook Touch The design includes a minimalist dock station, with an optical drive, extra hard-drive, charging and wireless connectivity but without the screen.
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Designer Seungchan Lee has a concept called Turning Lamp - a PC mounted on a lamp base
It uses tactile interfaces people are familiar with when turning lamps on so a pull of a cord activates one of the 4 faces. Each face can display something different, i.e. - weather, news, email, music player, etc. The whole thing works wirelessly and comes with a fold out touchscreen keyboard.
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Here are four new concept products from Fujitsu - Card Viewer, Clerk Browser, Fabric PC and Customer Browser
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January 5, 2008
Designer Jason Rubino has unveiled a concept for the XYXX container. XYXX is 6cm by 3cm by 1cm condom case. Named for both the female and male chromosome, XYXX is small enough to carry a condom in your back pocket or in your purse.
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January 3, 2008
Freedom Phone is a small pre-paid phone with a unique design. Upon arriving into the new country, you have the option of purchasing the Freedom Phone with 60, 100 or 200 minutes. No SIM card needed-No Roaming charges and in 10 short minutes, the Freedom Phone is charged. The phone number, important service and other information are located on the back of the Freedom Phone.
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January 2, 2008
Berlin interactive artists Gunnar Green and Frederic Eyl are showing off the Aperture Interactive Display. The concept is a facade installation that uses thousands of individual mechanical irises. The iris diaphragm matrix reacts to the amount of light in front of it, thus darker the object in front, wider the aperture will open.
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