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Snowcorn Bracelet with Built-in Projector, A Camera, and WiFi Connectivity

TheFuture — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:44:12 +0000

Snowcorn is a bracelet like concept device with sixth sense which includes a built-in projector, a camera and Wi-Fi connectivity. Moreover, this device can be placed anywhere on around your neck or chest. The transparent part of this device is a screen that can show basic functions or time and more complicated controls are done by the projected UL. You will be able to customize it with your desired color and style. This device will allow you to scan a business card to include the person’s particulars to your address book via Wi-Fi. Another key benefit of Snowcorn is you can translate a word or phrase that is unfamiliar with you in a book.

Designer : Mac Funamizu

Sourdine Wi-Fi Speaker Design from Arnaud Lapierre

TheFuture — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:20:56 +0000

Sourdine is one of the speaker designs for the Wi-Fi systems. The gadget incorporates the best of technology which aims to serve the young generation. The body of this particular speaker is made from a material that has elastic properties. This is the reason why the device can soften the effect of the music. But because of the elastic property the volume of the speaker can be enhanced and increased. This is also capable of hosting the Wi-Fi connection in various types of music systems. This is evidently a great device that expresses the tunes of music in the softest yet audible manner.

Designer : Arnaud Lapierre

Single Person Cooker (SPC) : Compact Cooker Design

TheFuture — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:29:25 +0000

Designed by Alex Bradley, SPC is a smart cooker for people who are living alone and hate to prepare their own meals, they prefer junk food. This compact cooker goal is to encourage people in bedsits and bachelor pads to prepare healthier meals. Combination of a hob, chopping board, utensils and a WiFi-enabled screen (futuristic cooker, huh?) to make users easier to access recipes from the internet. As one of Concept Product Competition Finalists, hopefully this Single Person Cooker prototype can win the competition.

The Intended user is primarily the single person and or commuter, where time is precious and preparing a meal is more of a chore than an experience to be savoured. Families, with busy schedules could benefit, together with wider ranging demographics.

Taking styling cues from current trends the concept aims to deliver a contemporary take on kitchen appliances and remove those initial semantic values associated with kitchen appliances, to give an air of ?what is that??

Looks like we have more choices for our kitchen in the future, modular kitchen by Fevzi Karaman is still a concept, hopefully this compact cooker by Alex Bradley can be mass produced.

Designer : Alex Bradley via Dezeen

Orb WiFi Router Concept

TheFuture — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:25:21 +0000

It is hard to build a WiFi environment, while we can see there is a huge demand of WiFi hotspots nowadays. That’s where Orb take place as WiFi router solution. Using Orb as your router, you don’t need any cables, easy to setup and really efficient. Orb is taking advatage of light bulb location which usually located in the center of the ceiling, making it a perfect place to setup your wireless router.

Designer : Richard Choi

Duros Rugged Tablet PC

TheFuture — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:39:14 +0000

You can bring your laptop ‘almost’ anywhere, but in a rugged mountainous terrain ? It would a lot easier if you have Duros Tablet PC. This 8-inch PC is capable of surviving harsh climatic conditions, water, dust and shock. Duros Rugged Tablet PC is ergonomically balanced with multi-directional handgrip and variety of docking mounts. This wireless Tablet PC also has GPS, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and UMTS.

Via : GizmoWatch and GadgetReview

Momenta – PC In Your Neck

TheFuture — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:06:39 +0000

Momenta is a neck-worn PC concept for Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition. Momenta can records everything in a rolling buffer and continues to record until you tell it to stop. Triggered by increased heart rate, it captures those hilarious or exciting moments that are usually lost forever. Whether it’s an exciting sports experience, a funny social scene, the scene of an accident, etc. you can capture it and share it.

Using the new light-weight Microsoft operating system, SLIM, this PC travels with you effortlessly. The projected touch-gesture interface allows you to interact with your software wherever you are without requiring interface peripherals but its wide-coverage 700 MHz WiFi wireless allows both connection to the web and to performance enhancing peripherals.

Futuristic Mobile Device with Advanced Search Function

TheFuture — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:44:39 +0000

The idea of this concept was to exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search? all in one device. See a building through it, it will 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. 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. With detail informations like that, this gadget might only be used by secret service agents. Very futuristic concept.

Designer : Mac Funamizu

Rovio Telepresence WowWee Robotic

TheFuture — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:20:21 +0000

WowWee Robotics once again create great innovation to its robot, it has unveiled its new WiFi-enabled, remotely-controlled robotic webcam platform. Rovia, 3 wheeled telepresence allows you to interact with its environment, give you information on how your home or office situation through streaming video and audio transmitted via internet to your cell phone, PC, or video game console.

Manufacturer : WowWee

GPS Navigation in E-Paper

TheFuture — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:28:04 +0000

E-paper makes a flexible display that consumes power only when updated. The design is inspired by a regular tourist map where you get good overview, good level of detail, and quick access combined with the advantages of GPS navigation. Store your images from your digital camera on the internal drive and sync them to the GPS log. Now you can see exactly where your photos were taken. Share this information directly by using WiFi or piggyback your phone with Bluetooth.

Designer : Nikita Golovlev

eStarling WIFI digital picture frame plus email address

TheFuture — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:09:21 +0000

This could be great idea for Christmas Present, as eStarling’s next-generation version of its WiFi digital frame, the model comes in a black finish, with an 8-inch frame offering high resolution screen available at 800×600 pixels. It has an on-board FLASH memory of 128M and is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista & Mac OS X. The cool feature in this digital picture frames is the email address, which allow you to send a picture to another digital picture frames. You can also send text messages through this frame, amazing isn’t it ?

Manufacturer : eStarling