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PowerMat Charging Platform For Your Gadgets

TheFuture — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:36:57 +0000

The PowerMat is a concept charging platform where users can charge their various electronic devices simply by putting them on the mat. This sleek and slim charging mat can be perfectly used at home or office and can charge up to 3 devices and has one USB power port. To make a device powermat-enabled, all you have to attach the certain back cover designed for each particular device like iPhone 3G, BlackBerry, Apple dock, and many more. For those devices that don’t have a powermat back cover, there is a powercube with several extension cord types to fit various kinds of devices. Moreover, the portable mat, the most amazing member of the PowerMat family, can be folded for ultra compact storage, allowing it easier and more convenience to carry this when you are mobile. The portable mat also works with all types of PowerMat receivers including the powercube.

Designer : Rob Cameron

Futuristic Landstorm Concept Vehicle for The Year 2058

TheFuture — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:21:42 +0000

Landstorm concept is a vehicle that is designed for future, when airborne vehicles will not be much effective to reach a particular area because of frequent natural disasters which is the result of future global warming. This vehicle has been designed as an all terrain vehicle that is equipped with a collection of hidden gadgets or compartments and the ability to interchange the pods located on its back. There is a variety of Pods that can be enclosed with the vehicle before it is sent to a particular location. These pods have been designed considering scouting missions, food and water transportation to a disaster affected area, medical pods that can treat 2 patients simultaneously, excavation pods that can work as a robust crane to remove large pieces of wreckage, and fire rescue pod where the tank can hold 750 gallons of water and can drain water from lakes with outboard pumps.

The 4 hydraulic legs of Landstorm can move independently and are providing great functionality by navigating over tremendously difficult terrain and raising itself up to reach the target. The use of these hydraulic drive-train attached with several powerful electric motors and powered by hydrogen fuel cell, have made the vehicle lightweight by removing the mechanical parts to impel the wheels. Moreover, it can be airdropped when the destination is far from the closest depot and then continue to reach the target on land.

The wheels of Landstorm are uniquely designed that feature small pods, allowing more grip on surfaces like loose dirt, mud or snow by increasing to compress surface area or just by using the edges to grip onto the surface. These are not just wheels, they feature a grapple gun or hook winch that lets the vehicle drag heavy debris or towing a standard vehicle. Once the Landstorm reaches the destination, the team will start rescuing and treating the survivors for emergency injuries.

The driver and navigator of Landstorm will have no problem finding out how far the destination is and how to get there by using the state of the art HUD technology along with a built in MultiSight camera (Infra Red, Night Vision and Cold Vision) powered with an advanced Computer AI. The heads up display features the most interactive information system which is controlled by the user’s neural patterns, which means, the information is controlled by the users thoughts. The rest of the cabin remains free for storage compartments for various equipments. There is a small backup unit that will start working if the main power source fails for any reason.

Designer : Peter Spriggs

Domo : Touch Screen Digital Camera Concept

TheFuture — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:03:13 +0000

After being introduced by iPhone, many other competitors of the electronic industry have utilized the outstanding multi-touch facility in different gadgets. Domo touch camera probably would be the first camera with this feature. However, this project is still in the design lab and not much information has revealed yet, but the compact, sleek yet simple design of this camera would really be appreciated. This camera features single click shooting and the photo pops up just after taking the snap for reviewing. When you are viewing the photos from the internal memory or from the memory stick, they can be navigated by finger dragging and to view a photo in full screen, just tap the selected one.

Designer : Ed Boaden

Freescale Modular Netbook Based on ARM Technology

TheFuture — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:43:09 +0000

Portable workbooks with various features and brands are ever-increasingly popping up everyday and designers are still looking to introduce more functional gadgets. Smartbook is a concept design by Freescale who has specially made six prototypes with a wide range of features. These modular mini-notebooks are based on ARM processors and emphasize on enhanced super-long battery life in order to fit in different usage patterns. These compact smartbooks, with brilliant look, durable made and great functionality, will meet the growing need of handy ultra-portables with all the required attributes and ambience. These concepts didn’t get a hardware version yet but are expecting to adapt quite a big part of portable gadget markets.

Designer : Freescale

You Can Hang Natch Media Player on Your Bag

TheFuture — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:03:07 +0000

Portable media players have taken a vital part of recent civilization’s everyday life and the problem that arises most often about these gadgets is ensuring safety holding while getting maximum convenience. Natch media player is an innovative creation that will develop new style for users to carry the device in a more secured way. This device can be hooked or hanged on a bag or a belt loop using the hanger structure to get a safer and stronger feeling than any other available products in the market. Other important feature includes card slot, data cable connector, headset port and accelerometer for vertical and horizontal display.

Designer : Weiting Chen

Coffee Machine Design by Kamil Kurka

TheFuture — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:47:16 +0000

With the technological advancement, people are getting more used to with electronics gadgets for their various everyday needs. This coffee machine is one superb addition with the healthy collection of available coffee makers in the market, but still features some unique qualities that can keep it aside from the others. The appearance of this polished body coffee machine is very attractive. The forth control knob can adjust the heat and the coffee volume knob will allow you to fix the quantity of coffee that you would like to have. The movable base tray will allow you to remove the coffee mug from the machine safely.

Designer : Kamil Kurka

sunLight, a Scaleable Gadget that Generates Power from Solar Energy

TheFuture — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:53:01 +0000

The unique product called sunLight is a concept that utilizes the natural energy both for its usage and storage. It is one unit that has all the aspects in one device like generating, storing and consuming the electrical energy. The device designed for a long lifecycle with the same components and no replacement of spares, and even if, there is a need for replacement of spares due to any malfunction, the same can be done without much of an effort and cost. Thus it’s not just environment friendly but quite cost effective as well. All that sunLight needs to work is solar energy – you simply unfold it so that solar cell film is exposed to the sun and the energy will recharge the batteries. Received power can be used in different ways, as a flashlight or for loading up connected gadgets (mobile phones or music players, for example).

sunLight is scaleable. The standard configuration embeds 6 modules, each of which consists of an LED unit and 2 AAAA rechargeable batteries. Furthermore, one of modules holds a charge controller. For more or less luminance/capacity, the size of solar cell film and with it the number of LED-battery modules can be varied proportionally. A low number of components reduces the production costs; production of different sizes requires just one new tool for the base material. Except for the batteries, all parts could be made of recyclable polymers.

Designer : Hermann Eske via GreenerGadgets Competition

Elegance Transparent Fragility Bluetooh Device

TheFuture — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:17:26 +0000

With the advancement of the recent mobile technology, we have encountered some superb useful gadgets with various handy features. Among them, Bluetooth device is being considered the most popular tool for its wireless feature. With simple and exceptional design, the Transparent Fragility is a supreme quality Bluetooth device that is being operated by a one touch key. This device comprises a minimum of details, smooth lines and bionic design that has made it an unavoidable stuff. According to IIshat Garipov, the founder of the Bluetooth device, he has tried to transfer plasticity and elegance of a drop of water to the headset design.

Designer : Ilshat Garipov

Solar Pot Can Charge Your Battery Under The Sun

TheFuture — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:43:01 +0000

With environment friendly issues being the prime concern for all designers so is this new charging device. This new battery charging device or Solar Pot makes use of solar energy to charge itself. All one has to do is to place the discharged cell inside the stem of this charging device and then the place the charging device in the sun. The device then takes up the solar energy and thereby charges the battery. This device helps in recycling the dry cells the natural way, which otherwise is one of the biggest environmental hazard. Quite an eco friendly way to save environment!

Designer : Jangho Kim via [Core77]

CompostAll as An Alternative to Garbage Disposing System by Frog Design

TheFuture — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:03:39 +0000

This garbage disposing system is surely an appropriate alternative to the regular home sink in garbage which ensures that the food waste is composted rather than be sent down the drain. The device has been named as CompostAll, is placed under the sink and thereby it is a pretty convenient, discreet and odor free location for storing waste food with an alert light which indicates when the container is full and it also has easy carry and disposing of waste contents to the bigger container outside. There is not much change that one has to do when placing this device in the kitchen as everything stays the same except the wastage manner. Thus it’s an eco friendly way of saying you care!

Designer : FrogDesign via [IGreenSpot and Core77]