All the stories tagged with: Concepts
Memory Mouse Concept
03/06/2008, The Memory Mouse doesn’t look too comfortable to hold, coming in your typical hockey puck style. What it does carry though, is 4GB or 8GB of built-in memory and a touch scroll wheel. Well, at least it frees up an [...]
Tactile Wand For Visually Impaired
03/06/2008, The visually impaired could certainly make do with this ‘smart’ wand that features a sensor on the front that is capable of detecting nearby objects, offering feedback on just how far away the object is with varying levels of vibration. [...]
Levitating Joystick Controls Computer
03/05/2008, We all know of the mouse and keyboard, but are you open to a new way of controlling your computer? How about using a computer controller levitated by magnets ala Maglev? This system apparently has more benefits over standard mechanical [...]
BLEWS: an Opinion Measuring Tool for News Ranking
03/05/2008, [Microsoft TechFest 2008] Measuring people’s reputation is one of the trends of the Social Web, and this web application ranks the news according to political blogs opinions. The number of links is displayed for each article on the left side [...]
SixthSense: RFID-based Surveillance
03/05/2008, [Microsoft TechFest 2008] Dr Venkat Padmanabhan from MSR Lab in Bangalore showed me a demo of this RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence application. Each object in an office has its passive RFID tag. When a person moves one object, the RFID antennas [...]
Mobile-Systems Distributed Operation for Sensing
03/05/2008, [Microsoft TechFest 2008] Ramachandran Ramjee and Prashanth Mohan from Microsoft Research Lab in Bangalore, India, showed me a demo of their “Mobile Sensing Platform” (I renamed it because the title is too long!). Each sensing enabled phone can detect a [...]
LucidTouch: the “reverse iPhone” concept
03/05/2008, [Microsoft TechFest 2008] Patrick Baudisch gave me a demo of the LucidTouch prototype that he is developing with his colleagues from Microsoft Research. Instead of the regular touch screen experience of the iPhone, the LucidTouch enables people to browse a [...]
OSP Robot Contains Oil Spill
03/04/2008, Oil spills are major environmental disasters, and key to containing its deadly effects would be to clean up the spill as soon as possible. This Herculean effort would work even better with the help of robots that do not fatigue [...]
Signal Smoke Detector Concept
03/04/2008, The Signal smoke detector concept by Matthew Jobson might look ordinary, but it does boast something standard smoke detectors don’t. Whenever the Signal runs out of batteries, the lid will open to display the housing, giving a visual alert to [...]
Cyberdesk Concept
03/03/2008, The name Cyberdesk is really misleading, as this concept bling from Krohn Design is actually a headgear that comes complete with a bizarre-looking necklace and a curved tube that is placed right in front of the eye. The tube’s main [...]
iView Concept
03/02/2008, Designer Nuno Teixeira has come up with the iView concept that features a wrap-around display complete with a secondary LCD built right into the back – making it suitable for students as well as those involved in the graphic design [...]
Skidscooter Outdoor Machine
03/02/2008, The Skidscooter looks like something out of a corny spy film, as this amphibious machine functions like a standard scooter on land while being equally capable of churning water via its powerful propeller and two hub motors to carry you [...]
Minimal Dual Digital Analog Alarm Clock
02/28/2008, Now this is a pretty looking alarm clock concept that will sit well on your bedside table – the Minimal Dual Digital Analog Alarm Clock. Created by Daniel Jarr, it might lack all the modern trappings such as weather updates [...]
