HP Berlin 2008 Concepts – Live Photos

Hopefully you have followed our live blogging of HP’s Phil McKinney’ keynote yesterday. We have uploaded photos that show the various concepts demonstrated by HP during the event, you can tell that they have sparked a lot of interest.

My personal favorite is the volume printer. As its name indicates, it can print objects layer by layer. This is great to prototype stuff. Imagine all the things that we could make ourselves if it was cheap enough. That would create a new generation of designers. Click here (or on the photo on the right) to look at the high-resolution photos.

More info about the concept after the jump

The HP moto for their innovation concepts is “out of integrated complexity will come disintegrated simplicity”. Waow, that’s a statement. The ideas behind these concepts are the globalization driving the need for virtual collaboration and the unlimited connection available from everywhere. HP aims to deliver this new technologies with an hyper simple user experience wrapped into an elegant design. With the skyrocketing oil prices, virtual collaboration for global teams and companies makes even more sense… and HP can test it first hand internally.

Cognitive Devices

Wearable Data Manager
This ring is captures a person’s behavior and thoughts and acts as a personal data manager: take your digital profile everywhere.

Interactive Work Surface
In the future every surface will become an interactive work surface, where user can view content and interact with it, as well as interacting with other users.

Virtual Collaboration

Tablet
The tablet is an hybrid version of an interactive work surface, it has a personal conference system that allows the user to collaborate and share.

Hyper prototyping

Volume printer

This 3D prototyping printer allows creative teams all over the world to collaborate on a design project in real time remotely. Ultimately it will lead to real-time user-generated 3D content and objects. Cool!

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