Still remember about “future mobile device with advanced search function“? This time, Mac Funamizu has come up with the idea to use this mobile device for diet. Usually people don’t care about their nutrition and keep on eating anything they feel like. But if you have some diet gadget that can tell you the amount of carbohydrates or vitamins, or proteins or sugar that diet is containing you might control your eating habits. You just need to take this gadget on the top of the food and it will deliver all the details just by pinpointing the dish you want to check. So, this gadget will definitely help you in keeping your body fit.
Designer : Mac Funamizu
An amazing 3D GPS navigation has been launched by Thinkware, though I’m still hoping the e-paper gps concept can come to reality. iNAVI K2 GPS provides amazing detail of 3D maps which are rendered on its 4.8-inch 800 x 480 screen resolution in a photo-realistic way. iNAVI K2 GPS also uses a three-axis sensor (G-Sensor) that enables stable use of navigation system which speed up the search on iNAVI software. iNAVI K2 GPS also has multimedia functions, so you can do photo viewing, play your mp3, read e-book, and play games.
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Functionality classic personal digital assistants incorporating new visual and ergonomic approaches. Personal digital assistants rolly and buddy are the concept PDAs developed for CREAT, Tokyo. After a complex and detailed research of the Japanese market aesthetic and functional attributes and aspects were decided. Two types were provided as a result of wish to push the trend forward combining its elements and putting then in a new arrangement. This PDAs look like a portable game console, perhaps Japanese are crazy about playing games.
Designer : Nikola Knezevic
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
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
