A new mountain bike is added by Mercedes Benz to its exclusive bike collection, called The Trailblazer. No need question about the materials, all is made with high-quality components and elegant design, perfect for serious off-road riding. The price tag is €2,790, really high in our opinion if you just use it for small ride in a park, but if you have so much money to spend, why not? The Trailblazer features a sophisticated four-link rear suspension that ensures outstanding riding comfort and excellent traction on difficult terrain. Mercedes Benz Trailblazer is available in two edition, sport edition and comfort edition, with a number of parts specially adapted to the different physiques of men and women.
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Bedding pioneers Michael Rothbard and Chris Ann Ernst helped introduce visco memory foam to the U.S. market almost two decades ago with their first company, Comfort Sleeper. The business was extremely successful and grew into a $50 million dollar operation in five years. Now joining forces once again, they have recently co-founded a new specialty sleep company called Sleep Studio, LLC.
Sleep Studio is named for just that – a studio dedicated to creating innovative sleep products around their customers. Their new line of products includes accessories such as pillows and mattress toppers, as well as five different customizable bed systems that focus on dual comfort, pressure relief and support. Each one of Sleep Studio’s bed systems – the VX, SX, SO, LX and the Signature, can be customized with your choice of fabrics, colors and styles.
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Using soft materials, this Soft Phone concept is a finalist in Tancher Award 2008. The interface features its fabric material, to define the function modules by extrusion and fold. This soft phone concept is based on the fabric digital display technology, which will lead to a new experience in more flexible cell phone operation. Jian Qian says “The Bluetooth earphone buckled to the string can charge the phone by Electromagnetic Induction. The material of the interface is fabric while the one of clip and circle is silica gel, which makes the phone very soft and portable.”
Different directions of extruding make different functions for the phone and the camera.
Camera Usage (Extruding vertically)
Extruding to a little extend: focus (take photos) ,
Extruding to a larger extend: pulling the trigger
Release: Photo finish
Designer : Jian Qian
Another innovative design concept from Nokia, the morph concept. Featured in The Museum of Modern Art ?Design and The Elastic Mind? exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. Developed by NRC (Nokia Research Center) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom), Morph is a concept phone that using nanotechnology which enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Users should be able to transform their cell phone into different shapes.
From the website :
“Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices: * Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
* Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
* Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
* Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge
* Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices”
We probably see this technology another 5-7 years in the future, by using nanotechnology, hopefully can lead to low cost manufacturing solutions and the possibility of integrating complex functionality at a low price.
Source : Nokia
Everything is going to be touchscreen in the future, this wall-mounted cd player also combines the functionality of a touchscreen. Antoine Lebrun and Volkan Akbyik designed Alacantara Pandora for the Alacantara Design Contest in 2007, combining the sensitivity of Alcantara, Alacantara Pandora brings new materials and new codes in the closed field of electronic, offering the user a new experience.
Designer : Antoine Lebrun and Volkan Akbyik
