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Pedo-Chi Educational Toy Grows With Your Children

TheFuture — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:52:16 +0000

The PedoChi concept device offers playful, fun, entertaining and thoughtful experience to the user without having to give much effort. This effective and educational concept is designed to enhance your children’s health and contribute to reduce childhood obesity through a motivating way of physical activity. With this device, users can share their personal physical records and play competitive intellectual and physical games between other devices. Operating the device is simple. Set your stride by using the left and right keys and hit enter to begin the birth of your pet. Once the pet is alive, you will have to feed it by playing with it, otherwise it will die. The handy counter will keep track of your steps and the colored lights indicate the health condition and needs of your pet.

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Designer : Nathanael Finlay

Changing Flat Tire is Easy with Turtle Wrench Tool

TheFuture — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:51:25 +0000

Changing a flat tire in the middle of the road is not a good experience for anybody, especially when they are forced to do the job with inefficient tools that are supplied by the manufacturer. Turtle Wrench is a concept tool that has been designed to change the paradigm of changing a flat tire easier than ever. The product minimizes the procedures of changing a flat tire by effectively undoing all the 4 studs at once of a wheel instead of doing it individually, through using the motion force of a car. Users don’t need to rely on their physical strength only anymore and since it reduces the repairing time, the danger associated with staying in the middle of the road reduces eventually.

Text from Fabiano :
There are over 25 million legally registered vehicles on the UK’s roads today. Car manufacturers supply the basic tools that are required to perform the task of changing a wheel with every new car; these tools should be sufficient to complete the task successfully but is this really the case? Research suggests that people are reluctant to perform this task themselves.
Flat Tyres were the AA’s 3rd highest reason for call-out in 2005, beaten only by flat or faulty batteries and Lost keys.

Several user centered analyses were performed with volunteers who matched our key user profiles most closely. Existing products available for purchase were used. Many problems were highlighted in particular:
• Safety, low posture is often required, particularly in removing wheel studs and jacking the car. If the flat is on the drivers sided, the task must be performed in the road as traffic passes. This posture hides the user from passing traffic and also makes it hard for the user to see the traffic approaching. This problem is increased at night.
• Visibility of tools is poor at night. Existing tools tend to be black or grey in colour.
• Clear instructions required, particularly for those who have never performed the task before. They serve to increase the users confidence in completing the task successfully and safely.
• Psychological issues were also a key factor, many users remarked that they fear of failure would likely prevent them even attempting the task.

In every case we found that it was not possible to complete the task using the tools provided by the car manufacturer, a telescopic wrench was needed to increase the torque applied to the wheel studs.

The design concept behind the product changes the paradigm of how the most problematic task of changing a flat tyre is performed. The product minimizes the steps of changing a flat tyre by undoing the 4 studs of a wheel instead of undoing individually, using the motion force of the car.

• Utilizes the weight and motion of the car to release the 4studs, reducing required effort
• Does not rely on physical strength of user
• Improves road safety in reducing time spent in path of traffic

CONCLUSION

The final developed product is an innovative solution to the problems witnessed when changing a wheel. By loosening all four studs simultaneously, using the forces generated by the turning of the car wheel, the task becomes less demanding for the user while also reducing the time taken.

Designer : Fabiano Pottes

S-Vision Concept Mobile Phone for Business People

TheFuture — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:47:14 +0000

S-Vision is a concept phone, specially designed by concentrating on business peoples, allowing to be carried out their presentations directly on its surface through projection. The extraordinary shape of this design phone holds sheer elegance and an exceptional format. S-Vision features an integrated LED Micro-beamer that helps projecting the presentations. This technology has already been introduced with some products available around but this phone is stimulating its functionality to the max. The projector activates by folding the side out of the mobile, therefore, the surface starts to adapt itself. The user can navigate easily through the screen by using the backward and forward keys.

Designer : Felix Runde

Pebble Fashionable Key Port

TheFuture — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:52:23 +0000

Have you heard about Key Fob? Well, Key Fob is a decorative and at times useful thing that can be seen with many people carried with their keys or chain. Therefore this beautiful ‘Pebble’ has been designed with many slots so that user can easily group their keys into categories such as car keys, home keys or office keys. It features a simple sliding mechanism so that you can quickly access the keys. You can check out the exploded view with several pieces fitting together without much aid. So, try this new funky personalized key fob.

Designer : Barton Smith

Using Recycled Materials, Nokia Remade Concept Phone

TheFuture — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:16:00 +0000

Green design from Nokia, this concept phone is almost entirely made of recycled materials, aluminum cans, old plastic bottles and car tyres for the rubber keys. The first prototype showed at Mobile World Congress show in Barcelone by Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Although it is clearly that the inside chipset and electronics won’t be made from old tin cans, at least this ‘Remade’ Nokia concept phone will consume less natural resources and more energy efficient by cutting the power used to back-light the screen.

Too bad that this phone is just a concept phone, hopefully we can see this green mobiles in the market soon.

Source : inhabitat