concepts Archive

  • Monami, the hard drive concept with a leather top hat (kinda)

    Monami, the hard drive concept with a leather top hat (kinda)

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Yeah... How much thought do you put into your hard drive purchase? Like, zero seconds? I mean, you check out the specs—capacity, cache, speed, etc.—and then off you go. Do you care what it looks like? I certainly don't, but then I'm probably not the "demo" for this deal. Then again, it's not even real, so I don't even know what's going on anymore.

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  • MacBook 3D concept: How long till it becomes a reality?

    MacBook 3D concept: How long till it becomes a reality?

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    What's most surprising about this next story is that it took so long to emerge. Presenting... someone's MacBook 3D mock-up! "See 3D, make 3D." Yes, that's very Apple-like indeed.

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  • Motorola hard hat computer concept

    Motorola hard hat computer concept

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    “Look, honey! There’s a cyborg up on the telephone pole outside. Should we invite it in for some motor oil and finger sandwiches or do you think it’d try to kill us? Whup. Wait. It’s a repair man. Cyborgs don’t have butt cracks. That’s how you can tell. False alarm. Should we invite him in [...]

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  • Swarming helicopters create 3D display

    Swarming helicopters create 3D display

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    If we’re going to be killed by swarming robots, they might as well look good doing it. Scientists at the MIT SENSEable City lab created a 3D display using tiny remote controlled helicopters that float in patterns in the air and light up, thereby creating a volumetric display. Called the Flyfire, it seems that this is [...]

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  • OLED board game pieces promise to take Carcassonne into the far future

    OLED board game pieces promise to take Carcassonne into the far future

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    My buddy Lou tells this story: he was with his girlfriend at the time and he got a call from a couple they knew. They couple invited them over for "boardgames and wine" and Lou said "Sure." Then his girlfriend told him that they were not going over for boardgames and wine because, in that couple's special code, "boardgames and wine" as some sort of weird partner swapping game involving lots of booze. Anyway, a professor at Queen's University in Ontario, Roel Vertegaal, showed off a concept board game that uses OLEDs on each piece, allowing you to play games like Settlers of Catan and Candyland with interactive aspects built right into the pieces. Click through for a video.

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  • SmartFish concept aircraft swims in the air

    SmartFish concept aircraft swims in the air

    Posted on January 24, 2010 | No Comments
    SmartfishThe SmartFish aircraft is a concept vehicle created by an engineering firm in Germany, based on the aerodynamic shape of a fish. So far, they have only built a remote control version of the aircraft, however a prototype is in the works. The prototype will be built from kevlar and carbon fiber, however the designers expect the vehicle to be relatively inexpensive to build.

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  • Yeah, this Vertu concept looks better than most of the ‘real’ phones out there

    Yeah, this Vertu concept looks better than most of the ‘real’ phones out there

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Apparently this phone is getting ready for a big Muay Thai match. It's a Vertu—“vertu” is “virture” in French!—designed by one Norihiko Inoue. No, you cannot buy it, I just thought it looked neat.

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  • Store your data on an ice cream bar with deliciously easy file transfers

    Store your data on an ice cream bar with deliciously easy file transfers

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    popsicleYum. Ice cream bars and external data solutions are, without a doubt, two of my favorite things. Actually, I don't back up all that often (I'm in the cloud, baby!) and frozen confections give me headaches. But this concept actually makes a whole lot of sense and it looks good, to boot.

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