Interesting Stuff

It seems Fujitsu's got a thing for morphing PCs. Way back in 2006, we saw this mysterious  tri-fold concept , which was rumored to be making the rounds inside Fujitsu R&D, and now the outfit's short-listed this déjà- vu -inducing transformer for its 2011 "Life with Future Computing Award." The Flexbook, designed by Hao-Chun Huang, features a foldable 21:9 touchscreen and similarly flexible keyboard that allow its users to switch from laptop to tablet to book-like e-reader. It's also been designed to sport a number of interchangeable sleeves in a Benetton- esque array of colors and patterns. It might have seemed impractical five years ago, but with  convertibles  coming of age, we'd say the Flexbook isn't really all that far out . [ source ]

Having trouble keeping your smartphone charged throughout the day? Designer Tsung Chih-Hsien has created a Red Dot Design Award-winning concept for a tiny cardboard capsule that could juice up your phone. It's called the Mini Power. You just choose how much battery time you need—two, four, or six hours—plug it in, then recycle it later. Tsung's biodegradable design, which he also envisions being purchased at convenience stores, eschews the plastic of most disposable batteries, which not only makes the case a little more environmentally friendly, but also saves on packaging. Since each Mini Power battery can just be broken off a perforated sheet, you could potentially buy them in bulk that way. Disposable smartphone batteries aren't a new idea. They're especially prominent in Asia. Japanese convenience stores, for example, have been selling disposable batteries by the truckload for years. But these batteries tend to be environmentally unfriendly, not ...

Blackberry Empathy For their sponsored project held by RIM Blackberry at the Art Center College of Design, designers Kiki and Daniel had to incorporate an interface that integrates human emotions with the concept of social networking. The result of this exercise was the Empathy concept. The phone is used in conjunction with a biometrics ring that is worn by the user to collect “emotional data”. Spec-wise it features a transparent OLED screen that becomes transparent when not in use and opaque during interaction. The front is all touch surface, while on the back there is a physical keyboard. As Daniel describes the interface: It is of course touch based and all the user’s connections are shown graphically so you can see who is connected to whom. Each contact has an avatar that is encompassed by two colored rings. The inner colored ring shows the contact’s previous emotional state, and the outer ring represents the contact’s current emotional state. It is important to show th...

Conceptual ‘Copy & Paste’ Tool is a Portable Scanner and Printer In One Do you copy and paste stuff a lot when you’re on the computer? It simplifies a lot of tasks and doesn’t take more than few seconds to do if you’re familiar with the usual shortcuts. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could somehow do the same in real life? That’s what the folks behind the Copy & Paste tool are envisioning with their concept design. It looks like one of those scanning guns that cashiers use to scan the code on the stuff that you’re buying. Only this time, you’re supposed to move the device over whatever it is you want to copy and paste. Pushing the button on the underside activates the scanner, while the button on top activates the printer. The handy device is, effectively, a scanner and printer that can print on any surface. It’s impressive in concept, but it remains to be seen whether this can actually be made from a manufacturer’s standpoint.  Source:[ 1 ][ 2 ]

Wireless EarBuds The Earin are the smallest pair of wireless earbuds created by Olle Lindén. Not only are they amazing in style, design, and technology but most importantly deliver high quality audio sound.The two tiny earbuds function together as one Bluetooth headphone and fit perfectly in your ears. These types of headphones come with no lights, sensors, wires or other attachments so no tangles. They’re almost invisible yet provide a fantastic music experience and are a true companion for a music lover. Each earbud has several silicone foam tips to choose from so that they can be the right color and best fit for your ear. The company also designed an accessory called, Concha lock which allows for a better grip so the earbud can stay in place during every situation. The earbuds are stored in a special cover which also works as a charger.  With dimensions of 62mm in length and 18mm in diameter, the capsule case is compact and can be carried anywhere even in yo...

MOTO 360: Wearable Gadget It's been a long time coming. Despite its end of summer launch window, the Moto's curved stylings were enough to overshadow the first pair of Android Wear watches, the squared off, uninspired, cheap-looking  LG G Watch  and Samsung Gear Live . In the meantime, though, a second wave of Android  Wear watches  has already begun jockeying for attention (and disposable income). When a device is as sleek, futuristic and eye-catching as the Moto 360 you can do one of two things. Wear one under a shirt and suit so that you can easily peep at the circular smartwatch as and when you need to. This is the way all the Motorola execs do it - we didn't even notice many of them had the 360 on at first glance.  The second thing you can do is slyly turn your wrist around or pretend there's an itch on your arm so that you can bring the Moto into people's eyeline to get more attention. That's what we've been doing.  Because it loo...

Innovative Pen Printer Lets You Use Old  Pens as Ink to Print Documents Far too often we're left with pens that still have ink, but are unable to write. Introducing Pen Printer. This innovative gadget aims to make use of these types of pen that you may have laying around collecting dust at home . Source More Info

Sony’s Latest Smartphone-Hugging Camera Lets You Swap Out Lenses Sony has never been afraid to get a little crazy. Over the years, the company has made  OLED displays you wear on your face, Luke Skywalker binoculars that record 3-D video, tablets that fold up into burritos, and car stereos that transform into Walkmen. At its most interesting, Sony makes products born out of a Willy Wonka/Dr. Seuss/The Jetsons brainstorm, except these products have names like WDX-RLXT1B instead of The Electrick Fizzlefozz. And now, like a gift from a parallel universe, there’s a new Sony product with pure sass coursing through its veins. The Sony ILCE-QX1 is a follow-up to last year’sQX10 and QX100 smartphone-mountable cameras, and this one has—get this—an interchangeable lens mount, a 20-megapixel APS-C sensor, and a pop-up flash. Like its fixed-lens predecessors, the QX1 comes with spring-loaded arms that latch onto the sides of your smartphone, connects to a mobile devic...

iPhone “Air” concept is thin as two credit cards, light as a feather This  iPhone 6  concept from France is an absolutely beautiful representation of what many are probably hoping the real iPhone 6 from Apple actually looks like. This concept, from Frenchsoft, showcases an extremely thin and realistic “iPhone 6″ that comes with a design that we think is fit for the real iPhone 6 that is rumored for 2014. Like many other iPhone 6 concepts, the designers have been inspired by Apple’s new iPad Air design and have dubbed this device an iPhone 6 “Air.” The device checks in with a 6mm design, thinner than the iPhone 5s, a larger 4.5-inch display that is edge-to-edge with ultra thin bezels, again like the iPad Air, a camera in the upper corner, and their version of iOS 8. Their version of iOS 8 features tweaked icons that look a bit different than the ones found in the current version of iOS, iOS 7. Simply put, it’s one of the better looking iPhone 6 concepts that we’ve seen. And...

Phillips Fluid Smartphone with Flexible OLED display With modern gadgets getting smaller and better to make boom in the market with awesome design, innovation and much more with technology. Philips come up with the design called flexible OLED display means you can adjust display by your own. Wrap the phone around wrist to become a bracelet for the fashionable as well as the handy one.   Conceived by Brazilian Designer Dinard Da Mata the "Fluid" is a smartphone concept that as suggested by its name feature a flexible OLED display to allow the better mobility and ease of use.

Little Printer: Will print out customization news as well as your requirement.  Now, a days people don't have enough time to read out the whole bunch of 20 to 30 pages news paper. So, as we gravitate towards digital sources for all of our information needs and wants, the humble newspaper has become something of a dinosaur. A company called BREG want to bring back the newspaper, but in a novel new way. Rather than a mass produced product, BERG's newspapers are small, highly personalized, and printed in the home of each user. Using a cute wireless device called Little Printer, newspapers the size of retail receipts are printed at the intervals set by the user. Although you can print your personalized paper as often as you like, BREG recommends once or twice per day. The Little printer is not just another digital-made-physical device that spits out your Twitter feed in paper from. It is much more personal and much more customization. BREG's mobile app ...

Hidden Card! This concept is mainly for credit card holder who usually face fraud activity. An amazing design. South Korea-based design team from the Korea Armed Forces Printing Publishing Depot has designed a new type of fraud-proof credit card. The design, knows as "Hidden Card", is a concept where the CPU, operation system, memory area and security algorithm are built into integrated circuit (IC) chip card. IC chip is a technology that is easy to duplicate than magnetic cards. This design takes security up to a whole new level by placing the IC chip within the card, only to appear upon keying in a certain code. This concept offers a greater, more secure credit experience that is definitely way of the future.

Future of Internet Search: Mobile Version What you wish about the internet searching capacity???? you wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, Google Map (May be Google Earth) Google search, image search.. all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building thorough it, it give you the image search result right on the spot. Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the  building. Well, it doesn't have to be a building, but it can be any object you see. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge etc etc. But as a designer myself, i hope it's able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on. It's got a scanner built in, so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in th...