All the stories tagged with: Concepts
F1/Carbon GMT Concept Watch
04/24/2008, Things don’t get any more precise than Formula 1, and the concept F1/Carbon GMT watch is definitely a thing of beauty. Inspired by the world of F1, designer John Pszeniczny has decided to throw in a carbon fiber body, Swarovski [...]
Book Computer Concept
04/21/2008, This notebook concept is clearly different form the rest, where the exterior showcases an old tome, but open it up and you will be greeted with modern amneties of a regular laptop including a display, a CD-ROM drive (what, no [...]
Apple Files Patent for Virtual Shopping Complex
04/21/2008, Apple has recently filed a patent which could result in a virtual shopping complex where customers can shop and interact with everyone else in the world through the use of avatars. An interesting concept in the avatars include the different [...]
Virtual Wall Concept
04/21/2008, Hanyoung Lee’s Virtual Wall concept draws up a barrier consisting of plasma laser beams, depicting pedestrians crossing the road. Any vehicle that chooses to ignore it won’t get incinerated by the laser, but at least it helps the more absent [...]
Force Sensing Technology from Microsoft
04/20/2008, Microsoft boffins have come up with force sensing technology that requires much more effort than touching a touch screen display in order to control it – you will be required to bend/twist/stretch/squeeze your handheld device instead. I guess the novelty [...]
Samsung Patents Visual Gesture Control
04/18/2008, Samsung has recently patented a system of cell phone and mobile device control which responds to a users gestures. It doesn’t do this on the display as how the iPhone currently does, but as recognized in the space around the [...]
Microsoft Wearable Mouse Concept
04/18/2008, Microsoft’s latest patent involves a Wearable Mouse concept that runs on gyroscopic technology, doing away with the need to move your hand from your keyboard to the mouse constantly. Coincidentally, this is pretty much the same technology that is found [...]
Laser-based HMD patented by Apple
04/18/2008, Apple has filed a patent for a laser-based head mounted display (HMD) unit that is small enough to be clipped on the user’s belt. An optical cable is used to transmit laser-generated video to the headset, and thanks to the [...]
Universal Scale looks Handy
04/17/2008, A scale is a scale is a scale, right? Wrong! This Universal Scale concept is different as it can be unfolded to a variety of shapes and sizes in order to make weighing items and people easier and less intrusive, [...]
Chat Machine Concept
04/17/2008, This concept from Jin Woo Han has been created to provide a desktop web experience in a package that has a large touch-display, a qwerty keyboard and rubber all around for clumsy users. It might be one vision for the [...]
Scroll Concept from 13 Tech Design
04/17/2008, 13 Tech Design has come up with a Scroll concept device which crams in a fair bit of impressive features, including a touch screen-based cell phone, a 10 megapixel camera and a full HD camcorder for you to record all [...]
Audi Snook Concept
04/16/2008, Tilmann Schlootz picked up a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008 at this year’s Detroit Auto Show thanks to the Audi Snook design. I must say, it takes a fair few looks before you warm up to the idea (and thinking, [...]
Help-branded Products
04/14/2008, Searching through aisle after aisle of medical products can be quite the pain, which is why the new Help-branded products designed by ChappsMalina Studio aims to make the entire process simple and dummy-proof. Granted, this isn’t exactly tech-related but it [...]