Another innovative idea from Tao Ma, "Say Time Watch" is a concept where a watch can give you warm sentences instead of time. You can create words that describe each specific time, change the color and the type of font the way you like it. You can write "it's 5 pm, time to go home" and set the watch to display it at 5:00 pm. Each sentences can be edited or inserted using usb line connected to a computer. My question is, from the picture you can see that the user setup the sentences for each hour...
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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...
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I’m the kind of geek that dreams about space travel between galaxies, extraterrestrial life and spaceship faster than the speed of light. So, when my favorite watch manufacturer releases Tokyoflash Kisai Space Digits LCD Watch, I scream in joy.
The design goal of Campagna V13R is to remind you of Hotrod era, while at the same time also combine the modern style details. Born V13R, a three wheeled sports vehicle powered by 1250cc Harley-Davison engine, connected to a 5-speed sequential transmission. Beautiful fiberglass body is laid over a tubular steel chassis with triangulated side walls a front crash zone and twin rollover bars. The chassis comes as standard in a black finish, with chrome plating as an option.
Inside the Campagna V...
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Russia has traditional tea ceremony which use water heating container (samovar) to keep the tea hot. This design aim was to create an original samovar not based on the traditional prototypes and to demonstrate that an object may look very different, but still keeps its main function - to heat the water. A charcoal-burning samovar that doesn't need electricity and gives a possibility to take part in the process of brew-up and the following tea ceremony in a big company. This fascinating design wo...
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For the first time, Logitech has equipped its Logitech G19 programmable gaming keyboard with a color GamePanel LCD. If you take your gaming experience seriously, this gadget should be in your collection. The 320x240-pixel display LCD is tiltable to provide you with in-game information for more than 60 games.
Still in a form of concept, Lumeneo Smera is all electric city car with scooter sized and one seat only, well not actually one seat, but you have to choose to carry a passanger or luggage, you can't have both. The ability to go 93 miles on a single charge and hit a top-speed of 80 miles per hour is really impressive. Acceleration is quite acceptable as well, with the 0-60 sprint taking only 8 seconds or so. A 144 volt lithium ion battery pack provides the juice. Lumeneo is planning to start sell...
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A good news for chess lovers and at the same time travelers too, this is the world's lightest game board, an inventive breakthrough in play on flat surfaces.
It allows flat game pieces to stand up on the board with a full 3-D effect. The pieces can't be blown away or shaken out! The pieces move only when you want to move them. Another design innovation allows a checker piece to turn into a king simply by rotating it to show its crown.
New Wave tm Chess & Checkers is highly portable...
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The idea behind this design is to create a product that promotes a fun and tasty way for kids to get the everyday vitamins their body needs. The product will administer vitamins in the form of a tasty drink, a new innovation encouraging children to take supplements to boost their daily vitamin intake.
Solvit+ is a fun way to take vitamin. Solvit+ is a dispenser where you can fill the pod with your favorite flavor capsule vitamin. The vitamin is fully soluble in water, simply mix it, children ...
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A luxury watch from Zenith, defy xtreme watch features a multi-layered see-through structure composed of shock-resistant transparent Hesalite glass, Carbon fiber layer and varnished dial plate. Black titanium case and bracelet with Kevlar inserts, high-temperature resistance and a position sensitive gyroscope cage Tourbillon designed to enhance accuracy. The striking design's gyroscope cage tourbillon and constant horizontal escapement is a feature which means the mechanism avoids the effects of...
Since the Maximus keyboard last year create a real buzz, they have developed Optimus Mini 3 version 2.0, smaller, three-buttoned version of the Maximus keyboard. Following the success of Optimus Mini 3 v 2.0, Art Lebedev is in the process of making the next generation of Optimus Mini 3, which is wireless, possibly Bluetooth and AC-powered. The picture below is the version 2.0 of Optimus Mini 3 since they still don't have the picture of version 3.0. Really looking forward to see the prototypes.
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P-Per mobile phone is a combination of advanced, simple, green and unique, designed by Chocolate Agency, this cell phone won Red Dot Design Awards 2007. Exploring many possibilities of sustainable design, P-Per made only from 4 layers, and one of them is an e-paper screen (which is chocolate agency famous product) which warps the entire phone. Made out entirely of sustainable materials, this futuristic mobile phone is using extruded polycarbonate to cope with its physical functions, hypoallergen...
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Smart design of mobile office from Michael van der Kley, Globus is very flexible and multi-functional mobile office, thanks to rotating chair, the pull out and adjustable table (you can put laptop, paper work, etc), and hidden wheels. Work anywhere you want, bring Globus mobile office with you, once opened up, the wheels are locked into place.
Designer : Michael van der Kley for Artifort...
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Another green car for Geneva Motor Show, here's an amazing hydrogen powered car : the Morgan Life Car, stunning design and at the same time environmental friendly. I think 2008 will be filled with new design of green car technology, this Life Car is powered by an energy storage system composed of advanced fuel cells that will take you for 250 miles on a single tank of hydrogen. It is set to have a top speed of 100mph and will do 0 to 60mph in around 7 seconds. Looking forward to see "the real ca...
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Touchscreen problem would be your fingers getting in the way of small screen. That is why Microsoft bring the concept of backside touchscreen which allow user to control the device from behind but still being able to see their fingers. Microsoft has shown off Microsoft LucidTouch prototype at the TechFest fair, an internal event highlighting key tech from the company's 800 research and development staff.
According to the company, the key to making this usable is what it calls pseudo-transpare...
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Beside P'9521 mobile phone, Porsche also won iF product design awards for its P'7340 kitchen and P'6750 watch design. P'9521 is a flip phone with square shape, featuring a fingerprint reader to identify the user and also make secure access to private data. The screen of the phone also can be rotated through 180A a? thus allowing the phone to be used as a digital camera, thanks to double hinge made of aluminum. You can find this phone in the Porsche Design Stores, too bad it is not available for ...
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Finally, lighting car company has released the first UK's electric sportscar, the Ligtning GT. The focus point of this sportscar is not the top speed, but rather its electric power that will deliver 700+ HP from its wheel-mounted electric motors charged by just your home electric plugs. There is no price tag yet, hopefully we can see this car in a realistic version instead of just rendering. With virtually no polluting emissions, this energy-efficient car uses clean technology and will have the ...
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