With rising spending power and better lifestyle, the need for providing care services is on the rise. To cater to these care needs Fraunhofer IPA has developed the mobile robot assistant to take care of humans. It is designed to take care of day to day needs for everyone. The first Care-o-bot was developed in 1998 with its ability to move around safely in the human environment. The subsequent developments have given it the ability to manipulate regular household tasks. Thus the future seems set that the care-o-bots can surely take good care of us.
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Nissan has come up with ‘Effis’ which they say is developed with keeping in mind how future urban lifestyle would be. The concept utilizes one of the most advanced technologies and seems Nissan has created the vehicle for the future as it is both use-friendly as well as eco friendly. The vehicle comes with a reconfigurable instrument panel offering 3+1 person seating in a comfortable space. This “rotational instrument panel” extends to provide a rotary table. If two people are in front, the rear seat is utilized for luggage area. If more passengers to accommodate, just push the instrument panel back in, and slide the front passenger seat forward while simply raising the rear seat. There you have ample space for 3 adults and still space left for more!
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Avery Holleman has developed a PC design that can turn out to be a very useful tool on your conference tables. Named as Napkin PC, the design resembles a Napkin holder, which combines multiple touch screen devices within a collaborative network. The digital pens which are a part of the device allow the users to draw on the touch screens what you would do with a pen on a napkin. As per the designer, the reason for creating the concept was to enable users to interact with any number of interfaces connected in the same network. Of course this is one napkin wherein one won’t feel embarrassed keeping notes. We already discussed some of Next Gen PC Design finalists, such as : Siafu PC Design, Zen PC, Yuno, Momenta Neck PC, The Cup, CLEF and TRVL, and the winner goes to Napkin PC Concept, congratulation Avery!
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Designer kitchen is the order of the day. Exclusive kitchen and customized solutions is something every one wants to see. With houses and buildings being extension of ourselves, we all want that our living spaces speak volumes about our personality. Be it our living room or our kitchen. Also anticipating the gadgets keeping in mind the lifestyle to be lived, how about a question to ponder as to how will our living spaces be in future? What will be modular kitchen of the future? French Designer Ora-Ito comes with Gorenje, a concept or idea of his version of kitchen of the future.
Clear and simple lines, it is a prototype of design with the cube and the rounded angles. Purified and elegant, but such an ultra space technological. For the Gorenje mark this kitchen tendency is also a technological window. The kitchen of the future Gorenje was nominated in early January 2008 to compete at a price of the best design products that have marked the previous year organized by the magazine Wallpaper.
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This futuristic kitchen is designed by Aslihan Yilmaz and Kitchen Mood has become the X-08 National Design Competition Kitchen 10th Finalist, TURKEY 2008. Kitchen mood is perfect for urban lifestyle which demands more and more space in such limited area. The aim of this kitchen design is to liberalize the metropolitan user and create a new “kitchen mood”. This kitchen is foldable, all of the components can be fold when it is not used, 4 sided with 360 degree rotatable.
Kitchen mood has 5 main are with its own functions : washing, heating/cooking, cold (fridge), eating(table), and storage. It has everything you need, including a waste bin. Futuristic kitchen mood is definitely an answer for small space environment.
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