E-Ink Electronic Coach Playboard is a new clipboard concept by Gordon Yeh for Iota Creations. Using E-Ink technology the clipboard can be used to draw out strategies for multiple games like baseball, basketball, football and soccer.
Casco is a new concept Laptop from Human Scale Design that combines the lightweight, portable convenience of a notebook computer and carrying case with the ergonomic benefits of a desktop workstation in a contemporary, aesthetically pleasing design.
Webble™, enables free motion that gets your legs moving while you work. The Webble™ combines an iconic shape with a spring suspension and patented mesh membrane that offer the ultimate in comfort and flexibility.
No-key Keyboard is a pretty concept Keyboard by Kong Fanwen. The QWERTY Glass Keyboard features a camera and lighting that uses motion capture technology to translate finger movements into characters on the screen.
Eddie Goh is showing off the concept for the Eclipse Intuit Phone. The handset would feature a powerful 5 megapixel camera with built-in software for editing and uploading to a photo album, slide-out touch keyboard with tactile feedback and a touchscreen front and center.
Here is a new motorcycle concept by NON-OBJECT called "nUCLEUS""nUCLEUS" is a "Square Against Air" electric motorcycle boasting a thin comfortable saddle that lowers itself when idle and raises when in motion.
City Mouse and Village Mouse is a concept mouse, designed by d-Vision, takes the mouse shape to new heights. The City Mouse has a shape more in tune with how we intuitively move our hands, which translates into more precise movement and fewer repetitive stress injuries, DVICE reports.
The EVO PC is concept PC aimed at offering sustainable personal computing service. The system built from sustainable materials consists of two main parts the EVO Client module and the EVO Base unit.
The University of Michigan College of Engineering has been awarded a five-year Army contract to develop a six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat that would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.
Designer Robin Lapo Bigio & Olivero Zanon have presented a concept - "i/o" - watch aimed at women? The masculine item is designed like a cuff bracelet with a hidden digital clock.
Olympus is testing a service that provides information to people using wireless head mount displays (HMDs) with the Future Creation Laboratory and Human Media Lab. T
The Ripple faucet designed by Smith Newnam & Touch360 Studio creates a way to interact with water. On top of the frosted ripple surface sits a metal ball. An array of electromagnetic sensors detects that ball's position. Moving the ball in or out from the center controls water pressure. Moving it around controls temperature.
Designers Carlo Casagrande & Yu Wenhou Ben are showing off the concept for the Tian Chi Washing Machine. It comes equipped with a top loading trap door allowing for new pieces to be thrown into wash without interrupting the wash cycle
Andrey Vostrikov's "Wall Ceramic Heater" aims to offer efficient heating with great design. The heating concept provides better energy efficiency, faster heating times and measurable noise reduction. Andrey also added the ability to generate negative ions and built-in LED lights.
Designers Jin Hee Kim, Hyung Il Kim & Woo Seok Park are showing off the concept for Hanging Printer. The bulk of its components are actually underneath the desk. The paper feed and print head are the only parts sitting on the desk. The casing has an embedded LCD to indicate status.
Designer Haishan Dwng is showing off the concept for Tipper Truck . Tipper Truck takes the dump truck to a new level, while current dump trucks unload their cargo only in one direction, Deng's concept has a provision to unload junk in any of the four directions. Also with each set of wheels providing independent suspension and motor.
MCube is a new concept designed by Sohui Won, Seung-Hoon Kwak & Yeong-Kyu Yoo. MCube is a wireless charger, bluetooth speaker, and information display. When you come home just place your mobile near the MCube. Using short range induction technology, your phone gets charged while all basic information like date/time, messages, and caller ID are transfered to the MCube's built-in display.
Polymer Vision is set to launch their 3G-equipped, e-ink device, Readius, in Italy. Readius features a foldable, grayscale, 5-inch QVGA display, HSDPA, a 400MHz ARM CPU, and a battery life up to "six times longer" than current mobile phones.
"Jelly Click" is a concept mouse designed by Bongkun Shin, Heungkyo Seo, Jiwoong Hwang & Wooteik Lim. When you need a mouse for your notebook, blow up the plastic body and you are ready to go. Inside the soft plastic structure is a small flexible board housing all the circuitry
Designed by Chen Wei-Ping, Liu Yao Sheng and Wu Tung Chih, tickettime is an electronic paper concept featuring a boarding card and a wristwatch which can be torn off and worn as a wristwatch during your travel. Before you depart for your journey, the airline company presets the watch to the time zone of your destination. The watch is returned to the airline counter during your check-in upon your return flight.
Designer: Lee Young Don is showing off the Saverclipconcept.
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.
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.
Designer Ryan Han'sBello 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Berlin interactive artists Gunnar Green and Frederic Eyl are showing off theAperture 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.
artlebedev.com has a concept for a new keyboard called Optimus Tactus . Optimus Tactus does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size. Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.
Designer Bence Bogar is showing off a concept for SE PXi concept, a camera specifically created for left handusers.
Features include a 3.3 inch touchscreen, screen rotates automatically and is optimized for both finger and stylus input. The right side of the unit houses a jogdial and a secondary touchscreen which adapts to whatever app is currently open. The smartphone also sports not 1 but 2 card slots . The PXi is equipped with stereo speakers and a Cybershot class 5 megapixel camera.
The Terrafugia Transition flying car vehicle could launch by end of 2008 says its developers.
This summer, they demonstrated the aircraft's automated folding wing, one of the biggest challenges to the design, and it worked perfectly, opening and closing over 500 times without incident. Says Terrafugia chief operating officer Anna Dietrich, "We're building the rest of the first vehicle now. Our schedule calls for us to start flight testing by the end of 2008, and so far we're on track for that."
Designer Mukai Shen is showing off the concept for eWallet, a shopper’s companion integrating WIFI and RFID technologies to connect to people and objects.
The clamshell style device gives you the ability to window shop, customize details like color and fit, and even includes a built-in simulator. eWallet lets you make purchases direct from its interface.
Because We Can LLC's interactive LED table features touch sensitivity.
When they aren't being touched, the LEDs twinkle softly, but any contact sets off "waves" of light that move around the table and gradually settle down, kinda like touching a pool of water. There's no pre-programming and no seizure-inducing blinking or flashing; it's completely analog and smooth
Designer Eno Setiawan has unveiled a concept notebook called Vaio Zoom.
The notebook concept features a completely transparent screen and keyboard that opaque. Turn it on and the touchscreen holographic features are revealed. Even the mouse buttons are holographic reports YankoDesign
Daniel Rozen's Weave Mirror uses "768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket," and as people approach, it "paints a picture of them using a gradual rotation in greyscale value on each C-ring."
ThingM has unveiled WineM, a chic & smart wine rack. WineM remembers all the information about the wines in a large wine rack, cellar or cabinet, or searching through that data.
A handheld browser commands the rack to display multiple types of information and project the results with RGB LEDs directly onto the individual bottles, which are identified by the rack via custom walnut veneer radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on each bottle.
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