After casulo, here comes another invention from Japan called Trunk Station Ad, a workstation in a box. I guess we are going to see a lot of transforming furniture design in the future, this is due to saving space issue that we are going to face. The W 906mm x D 615mm H x 1190mm sized melamine resin trunk opens to reveal an efficient work space, complete with pre-drilled holes for electrical and component wires/cables, a fold out desk, and plenty of shelving for a whole lot of extras (including some add-on units). The price tag is around $1,980, quite expensive, well … saving space is never cheap.
Product Page : Caina via Unplggd
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
This external touch screen can be used as a substitute for your keyboard especially when complicating control is needed.? For designers as PC beginners, graphical guide of external touch screen would be a great help. You can also change this external touch screen into keyboard and make it the way you want it or turn it into a Macbook cover tells you how many new e-mails and RSS feeds you’ve got, time, schedule, new flickr photos of your bookmarked photographer. No need dealing with computer ? Change it as photo/movie stand, randomly pick YouTube movies, etc.
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