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Cobalto and Zafiro : Futuristic Devices That Are Inspired by Sci-Fi Movies

TheFuture — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:50:30 +0000

Cobalto and Zafiro are two futuristic concept devices that have been designed by getting inspired from Sci-Fi movies like “Minority Report”. Cobalto, the glass screen of this mobile phone concept has been envisioned to be able to produce 3D objects in the air which is really exciting. The device features deformable metal which will allow the user to function either on traditional number buttons or a dial like iPod.

Zafiro is conceptual desktop PC with really stylish and innovative appearance, it resembles a lot with the hand or body gestures of Tom Cruise in the movie. The Zafiro concept also comprises the deformable metal of Cobalto which allows the keyboard to get flattened when idle.

Designer : Mac Funamizu

3D Blue Ray Disc Camcorder by Nikola Knezevic

TheFuture — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:35:24 +0000

The extraordinary design of this concept 3D blue ray disc camcorder features portability, durability and small dimensions, offers semi-pro video recording with highly sensitive lenses and sensors. The appearance of this concept camcorder matches much with the robots of science fiction movies and has two stands under both sides of the lenses to ensure better balance. The feeling of existence and being involved in this camera cannot be evaluated to existing way of video recording simply because the camera will produce a pure 3D reality video. However, the program broadcasters may require further development to run these twin frequency videos that is essential to create 3D illusion.

Designer : Nikola Knezevic

Augmented Reality Toy by Frantz Lasorne

TheFuture — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:23:02 +0000

The development of recent gaming industry can be realized with the different available gaming platforms. Augmented reality toy is the final Master thesis of a French Designer, Frantz Lasorne, which will surely blow people away. This concept design will provide tangible reality gaming experience that will offer both virtual and physical aspects to the gamers. These types of objects are quite familiar with us by the widespread of the recent imaginary science fiction movies. But if Lasorne can complete the project with success, it would be really a brilliant platform for creative designers to find out new ways of dealings.

Designer : Frantz Lasorne

Future New Town of Gwanggyo With Plantations Around The Terraces

TheFuture — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:07:10 +0000

The new city center designed by Dutch architects MVRDV for Gwanggyo, a city coming up 35 kms from Seoul in South Korea seems to be something taken out of the sci fi movies. Expected to be completed by 2011, the city is sufficient enough to hold 77000 inhabitants and has a design envisioned with two centers which is a mix of housing, culture, office, retail, and leisure and education spaces. Various atriums are created in the towers catering to various categories, with box hedges being planted on the roofs and terraces which in turn improves ventilation and reduces usage of energy and water.

[Press Release]
MVRDV wins Gwanggyo City Centre Competition, near Seoul, South Korea

The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ‘Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centre’s of the future new town.

Since the beginning of the millennium local nodes with a high density concentration of mixed program are used in Korean town planning. These nodes consist of a mix of public, retail, culture, housing, offices and leisure generating life in new metropolitan areas and encouraging further developments around them: the Power Centre strategy. The Gwanggyo Power Centre will consist of 200,000m2 housing, 48,000m2 offices, 200,000m2 mix of culture, retail, leisure and education and 200,000m2 parking.

This diverse program has different needs for phasing, positioning and size. To facilitate this all elements are designed as rings. By pushing these rings outwards, every part of the program receives a terrace for outdoor life. Plantations around the terraces with a floor to floor circulation system store water and irrigate the plants. The roofs of these hills and the terraces are planted with box hedges creating a strong, recognizable, cohesive park. This vertical park will improve the climate and ventilation, reduce energy and water usage. As a result a series of overgrown green ‘hills’ appear in the landscape.

The site is surrounded by a beautiful lake and forested hills, the design aims to create a landscape on top of the new program that enlarges the green qualities and that links the surrounding parks by turning the site into a park.

The shifting of the floors causes as a counter effect hollow cores that form large atriums. They serve as lobbies for the housing and offices, plazas for the shopping center and halls for the museum and leisure functions. In each tower a number of voids connect to the atrium providing for light and ventilation and creating semi-public spaces. On the lower floors the atriums are connected through a series of public spaces on various levels linking the towers and serving the outdoor facilities of the culture, retail and leisure program. The Power Centre creates a dense urban program with a green regard.

The concept plan is currently at the Gyeonggi provincial authority’s Urban Innovation Corporation for further development and feasibility study, the entire new town will be a self sufficient city of 77,000 inhabitants. The estimated budget and timeframe are still in the process of being established, completion is envisioned for 2011. A consortium lead by Daewoo develops the project with local firm DA Group, which commissioned MVRDV to design the scheme. British firm Arup is involved as engineer.

Designer : MVRDV via IGreenSpot via WordArchitectureNews

Torch White LED Light Glove

TheFuture — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:09:29 +0000

The new conceptual torch light designed by Slovenian designer Tilen Sepic, is something that has been picked straight out of the sci-fi movies. The whole idea of the concept as per the designer is to produce a working light without the hassle of shadows being reflected in the object. The device is supposed to be worn like a glove around the wrist and the light is emitted through the white LED which is a part of the device. The device also includes a battery pack with the light being transferred through the attached optical fibers to a specified location. Just point at the location and you will see light!

Designer : Tilen Sepic via DesignBoom