Scion, Toyota’s youth brand, has launched its concept at the New York Auto Show, Hako Coupe concept. At first sight, this car might look like a classic car for you, but the inside is fully futuristic. Designed by Tokyo Design Division, this Hako Coupe Concept was inspired by the American vintage among young Tokyo trendsetters, it is intended to reflect “youth-inspired trends”. As Jack Hollis (Scion vice president) says “Scion’s Hako Coupe Concept embodies a distinct global perspective on today’s youth”.
“This type of forward thinking complements the Scion philosophy of intently listening to our customers and being willing to take risks to help us see where our brand should be. We took the xB’s iconic boxy shape and explored something more vivacious, yet just as emotionally appealing. This concept is the sporty version of a box.”
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The Wisdom Well concept involves an interactive floor supporting new kinds of kinesthetic learning and entertainment experiences. The objective of the Wisdom Well is to create an IT-based physical setup for learning and entertainment that enables users to utilise their bodies as well as their minds in collaborative games and explorative digital simulations.
Learning is a promising application of the Wisdom Well concept, since it transcends traditional PC-based systems through support for body-kinesthetic learning. The theories of Howard Gardner and others suggest that stimulating one intelligence area may enhance skills within other intelligence areas.
Designer : Kaj Gr?nb?k, Ole Sejer Iversen, Karen Johanne Kortbek, Kaspar Rosengreen Nielsen, and Louise Aagaard
The idea behind this Daihatsu car concept design was the monospace nature of this concept can gives the interior a spacious feeling, which is further enhanced by the large (plexi) glass windows and the small luggage area. In the big cities, space is luxury, so for leisure vehicles like this, space is important.
Because the intended use of the vehicle, luggage space has been used to house good audio equipment. The lack of a rear window makes it possible to put it even more optional equipment. The deep dashboard offers enough space for optional entertainment system. Small cameras are integrated in the wide graphic lines, increasing visibility and compromising for the lack of a rear window.
Designer : Renze Rispens
This portable PC Theater is a full entertainment computer built for your pleasure. The small package makes it portable, take it anywhere you want. The reason why it is said as portable PC theater is because the built-in projector which can be removed for better positioning. The portable projector has two surround speaker system on both side of the body, you can enjoy a stereo speakers. The cable is hid in each body when it is not used, no more messy cable. Ready for your own theater ?
Designer : Jin Woo Han
Felix Schmidberger has designed a futuristic laptop which might be used around 8-10 years later. Say good bye to conventional keyboard, this futuristic laptop is using a touchscreen OLED display, including the screen too, basically the OLED display is separated into two section, the screen and the keyboard.
You can also control the laptop by a senstylus pen or by hand. Besides using the laptop as portable office, you can also turn the laptop into home entertainment system by the help of external docking system. The compenion (the laptop name) is going to be able to adapt to the environment, you can use projector for viewing video or when you’re at the office, you can use the external keyboard.
Although it’s just a concept, it doesn’t mean that this laptop won’t be launched, expecting around 2015 we can already use this laptop, we’ll see …
