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Sake Bomb Stylish Cup Holder by Alexander Purcell

TheFuture — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:08:48 +0000

Sake Bomb is an innovative and stylish cup holder that delivers the experience of more than enjoying a beverage and sharing the fun with buddies in a more intuitive manner. The name came from the American modernization of drinking a shot of sake into a beer pint and this ceramic container avoids the traditional shape of a cup holder. Having a shape somewhere between a Japanese blowfish and a WWII mine, it includes four tiny cups placed outside and is insulated naturally to keep the sake hot. Aside from great functionality, this cup set will boost the décor of any tabletop.

Designer : Alexander Purcell

Nissan EPORO Robot Car Mimics The Behavioral Patterns of A School of Fish

TheFuture — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:30:02 +0000

The EPORO Robot Car is a concept robot vehicle that can travel alone or in a group in certain patterns and can avoid obstacles without making a collision with each other. Aside from showcasing information technology and cutting-edge electronics, Nissan, the manufacturer of this car, has demonstrated many functional features of this concept that will be helpful for all range of commuters. This concept car with anti-collision abilities can navigate intelligently and instinctively through challenging roads by detecting and avoiding barriers, while presenting a great display of running in groups like fish schooling. This robotic car evolution will help preventing global warming and decrease dependence on gas, which signifies a notable contribution to the society.

Designer : Nissan

BMW Lovos Body Looks Like Fish Scales

TheFuture — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:48:01 +0000

Lovos means Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity. Therefore, the concept BMW Lovos project is not like the usual process of designing, crafting, vehicle acquisition and management, rather, the project is a meaningful symbol of conscious self-restraint, that can encourage the viewer to discard their common ideas about the number of exterior elements that a car should required. The body of Lovos contains 260 interchangeable identical particles that can open and close like fish scales. These elements are mobile and help gathering sun energy through solar cells by changing their positions as soon as the car starts running. The interior is warm and soft, making a distinct contrast between technical and mechanical appearance.

Designer : Anne Forschner

Atmosphere Camera : Capture Pictures While Thrown On The Air

TheFuture — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:13:05 +0000

The Atmosphere concept camera was designed for the ‘active-youth’ with the ability of capturing pictures when it is actually thrown on the air. This interactive camera has three different lenses to use – a normal snap-shot, a ‘fisheye’ and a color filtered lens. To activate any of the lenses, the user just has to rotate the front knob. Moreover, it has three rubberized handles located inside, helping the user to manage easy portability and accessibility. The small silver knobs act as an attachment area for the discs through rubber cords that will allow easy looping and a secure tight grip for the camera.

Designer : Elizabeth Harr

Sea Raider Futuristic Concept Boat with Solar Energy Panel on The Roof

TheFuture — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:41:05 +0000

Sea Raider is a futuristic concept boat that is specially designed for the next millennium. This entertaining boat comprises a friendly finished design and is powered with both fuel and solar energy. The inspiration of this boat came from racing cars along with few boats and most amazingly, Jack Sparrow, the leading role of ‘Pirates of the Carabian’. The solar energy panel is placed on the roof to offer direct contact with sunlight and there is a small pool at backside of the boat where the passengers can hang out with some fun fishing or just seat back and relax.

Designer : Muhammad Imran

Evergreen Electric Inner City Transportation by Nick Fisher

TheFuture — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:11:56 +0000

Evergreen is an innovative alternative of the existing modes of transportation in a friendly manner, both from the environmental and inner city aspects. When it comes about “inner city travel”, most of you will imagine of dirty, stressful, slow and dangerous transit. Evergreen, by getting inspired by the nature, is designed to offer a pleasurable inner city transportation experience by symbolizing the “green” lifestyle and minimize environmental damage. The everlasting green line offers a subtle accent that draws the eye of all range of people and leads the vehicle around the flowing contours and symbolic forms of nature.

The riding position of this eco friendly vehicle can be adjusted as per the rider’s requirement and one fast movement can turn the vehicle into a trolley from a motorized trike that you can drag or store anywhere. The rear wheel houses an eco electric motor that charges the battery as the front wheel turns and harness energy that is lost in breaking to charge the battery. A luggage compartment is located in between the battery and the motor where you can store your necessary stuff. It comprises a strong, lightweight and eco friendly polycarbonate structure that can be recycled several timers over using low energy.

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Designer : Nick Fisher

Ondo Music Editing Phone Concept : Play It, Mix It, Rock Out To It !

TheFuture — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:20:36 +0000

The Onyx; this was the model mobile phone which took the more traditional keypad to a whole new level by introducing the touch screen edge. With just a finger or a joystick you could click your way to revelation. But even with the pomp and color that Synaptics and Pilotfish, who are interface developers and industrial studio designers respectively, launched Onyx, it still wasn’t good enough to get sold.

But it may have become the harbinger of future mobile phone concept developments. With Pilotfish, a new development in the concept of phone music editing was born. The Ondo combines the touch screen ability with a back that lithely twists and turns to allow for fast and comprehensive editing of desired music on the phone.

This new concept according to Pilotfish is a bid to lessen the burden of mobile phone manipulation especially for those who find it hard to even understand the features and also make music enthusiasts happy. Of course we can not conclusively judge the efficiency of this designed concept but the need for a classy easy to use music editor has always been in the heart of mobile phone music lovers who want a calling phone with an Ipod like concept among its features.

[Press Release]
Pilotfish Launches Ondo Music Editing Phone Concept

Play it, mix it, rock out to it! Ondo enables a more flexible and physical experience in mobile phones

MUNICH, Germany – April 20, 2009 — Pilotfish, a progressive industrial design and product development studio based in Munich, Amsterdam and Taipei, today introduced Ondo, a dedicated music editing phone concept. The Ondo concept enables OEMs to visualize a new form of user interaction for mobile phones. User The target user for “Ondo” is the music enthusiast who seeks to interactively capture and edit sounds. Going beyond software-based solutions of other products, it is specifically designed to effectively collect pure sounds and is specially constructed to create a tactile sound editing experience.

Music Editing
Made from form-sensitive flexible materials, “Ondo” allows the user to modify recorded sounds by physically twisting and bending the device. Like a guitarist pulling on a whammy bar, users can feel and hear the musical effects as they create them.

Jamming
Another innovative feature of “Ondo” are the three removable display ”sticks”. In their normal state, the “sticks” act as a unified touch display for the mobile device. When removed, each can be separately clipped onto a musical instrument or person to capture live sound. Like a portable recording studio, “Ondo” makes mixing tracks easy, because each “stick” picks up isolated sounds from each individual instrument. The recordings can be immediately sent via MMS (Multimedia Messaging) around the globe allowing musicians at different geographical locations to jam together.

Mixing
In party mode, “Ondo” works as a digital mixer enabling the user to create seamless transitions between songs. This is made easy with interactive touch functions combined with integrated software support.

Market Opportunities
The advantage of such a device is that a range of services and accessories can accompany it in order to enhance the sound capturing and editing experience. From a business perspective, most of the players in the mobile world can benefit: for example, content creators – by providing sound libraries or musical games for download; operators – by facilitating increased user interaction; and device manufacturers – by producing accessories such as input devices, Bluetooth instruments, etc.

Designer : Pilotfish

Foldable Bowl for Camping and Picnic

TheFuture — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:48:56 +0000

Foldable Bowl is a perfect solution for those occasions where minimizing the weight of the luggage gets top priority to ensure easy carrying such as camping, mountain-climbing, picnicking, fishing and many more. When folded, the appearance of this bowl matches with a two fan-shaped layers and you can make yourself a wonderful bowl by just shaping it into a cone with simple pressure. This picnic bowl will definitely make your outings much easier by reducing your baggage weight while taking less space when it is folded. You can put salad, snacks and also liquid like wine or juice into the foldable bowl.

Designer : Gowoon Jeong

Celsius Modular Fridge Concept To Meet Your Requirements

TheFuture — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:45:51 +0000

Angeline Meloch, a design student of University of New South Wales has designed Celsius which is a modular refrigerator, able to be configured by the users as per their preference. There are four cabinets of this concept refrigerator and each cabinet has a touch sensitive control panel, allowing a selection from 5 temperature alternatives for suitable storage of food. The main goal of this concept is to make the most of space. Celsius can be customized for packaging of fruit, meat and fish, milk products, vegetables, bottles and jars. You can purchase additional modules if you think necessary to meet your requirements.

Designer : Angelina Meloch via [HomeDosh]

Prepare Your food Safely with Pebbles Stone Grill Concept

TheFuture — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:13:03 +0000

The new concept by Korean designer Natan Kwak named Pebbles is a grill that has been inspired from the traditional stone grill of Korea. It allows to prepare the food safely which in the end is more beneficial to the body and the food is more effectively cooked as the device’s body structure is flexible and pebbles also gets adjusted according to the ingredients. Add to that its portable, so one can say that it’s convenient as well. It also has flexible heating options unlike the other pebble coking products, so be it grilling fish or meat, it is a perfect companion.

Designer : Natan Kwak via HomeDosh