Mozilla Seabird - Open Web Phone

The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from the Mozilla community through the project’s blog, a focus quickly developed around frustrating physical interactions. While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced.

With mobile phone companies such as Samsung, LG and Motorola moving towards display applications for projectors, the technology remains open for expanding user interaction and input at the same time. The Seabird, on just a flat surface, enables netbook-quality interaction by working with the projector’s angular distortion to deliver interface, rather than content. With the benefit of a dock, each projector works independently and delivers laptop levels of efficiency.

The form development took its cues from various aerodynamic, avian and decidedly feminine forms. Its erect posture intends a sense of poise while its supine conformity to the hand reconciles that with the user’s desire for digital control. The curvature of the back also serves a functional role in elevating the projector lens elements when lying flat.

The Seabird, then, introduces a few possibilities into how user interaction might evolve with the advancing motion capture and projector driven innovation in the market. First out, the Seabird imagines how a multiple use dongle might augment the crowded gestural interface with greater precision and direct manipulation of content in 3D space.

 

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Hot-Liner-Flexible solar cooker

Why do I need gas, if there is the sun? Why do we need the wood, where is the sun? So say designers Yonggu Do, Sukhoon Hong and Eunha Seo, who created the concept-the idea of unusual plates Hot-Liner. It will help to prepare hot meals, even in the most Spartan conditions. After Hot-Liner is powered by solar energy!
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have no access to gas and electricity, and therefore still cook on open fires. This inconvenience, and throws a huge amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. And, moreover, millions of people lack access to resources, allowing a fire, but because eating raw food. This spodvigli designers Yonggu Do, Sukhoon Hong Eunha Seo and create the concept cookers Hot-Liner.
It's not just electric! This plate, which is powered by solar panels! It would be enough to expose it for a few hours in the sun, and it accumulates in their batteries with enough energy to her master had the opportunity to cook anything on it myself.

Hot-Liner has a flexible structure. Hence, it will be possible to bend the device in such a way as to create the desired shape,perfect size to fit your pot and kettle.
I must say that Hot-Liner - this is in contrast to power football, potentially, a very popular product. However, not so much for “third world countries” where people are preparing meals over an open fire (very very expensive will ensure every poor family in such an expensive device), and for residents of Western countries. After all, electric, powered by solar panels - it is a very useful accessory for outings, hiking, picnics and other outdoor pastime.

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Aphelion - alarm clock that will make anyone get up early

About 90% of delays elsewhere are due to the fact that people are still "lie" in bed and wake up after ten minutes and legendary. Those who really can not - deserve respect and need to share secrets of success. But those who are very, very morning, did not raise, even kicked, can acquire alarm Aphelion.

Concept-hour clock Aphelion is still a concept only. Not every firm will agree to issue an alarm clock that flung balls at people. Although, given the fact that balls are not akkurat hours flung in your face, but just - away from themselves, and how to search for this ball will facilitate the morning waking up - just wonderful. Any craftsman will want to buy outright this concept for future production, because while the ball is not returned back to its rightful place electronic, alarm clock does not stop!

The remaining functions of the alarm is very standard: a large LED-backlit display, mp3-sound, fm-radio and all that. And while Sony will not be a strong target alarm clock so that he gave them his entire force to the head, the concept has a future!

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Spread your Love

 

They say there are some experts that the trail left by the tires can determine what kind of car drove. Interestingly, these experts say, seeing traces of bicycle tires «Spread your love», created by designer Named Cohanim (Hamed Kohan)?Rather, it rode a bicycle, driven girl. It is difficult to imagine that a man got himself a bicycle tire with mixed protectors!

 

 

 

Iranian designer Named Kohan with bicycle tires under the name «Spread your love» («Spread your love") has become one of the finalists in the South Korean competition «Seoul cycle design 2010", dedicated to, if not difficult to guess, bicycle design.
And it is not surprising! One need only look at the track, which left tire «Spread your love», and have a better look at himself a bicycle and his mistress. The fact that this is the hostess, and not the owner, no doubt.
The purpose of this unusual design of bicycle tires «Spread your love» purely aesthetic. After all, when a man in love, he seeks to share his love with the world. And why not do it using the original type of retreading his bicycle?

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Snail Cleaner

 

Snail Cleaner is the concept of a mechanical cochlea, which runs on solar energy, and as the snail alive, does not ask for anything to eat or drink - just sometimes hang on the lighted window to charge the batteries. The solar panel is located on the shell "snail". In the same location and the container for cleaning.

All that is required from the owner of the hard-working gadget is downloaded into the shell snails, water and baking soda (aka NAHCO3 and sodium bicarbonate), stick to the substance of a tiled wall and press the "Start" button.

Scrape down the glass walls of the typical plaque - a dubious pleasure. But snails do it with pleasure, without the need for food and drink slowly and do not complain, as true professionals. It is not surprising that the Korean designer Dong Hun Seo, wanting to optimize the process of purification tiled walls, took advantage of it to read the cochlea, and created his own project called Snail Cleaner.

The author argues that with the help of special rotating brushes embedded in the belly of the cochlea, the gadget very carefully scrape away the dirt between the tiles, just as skillfully polishes walls. Also in the accompanying note says that Snail Cleaner can clean the tile, even where the walls form a corner.

It does not say only one thing: like a snail realizes that a section of the wall is already clear, and it was time to move a little farther, and not whether the gadget upolzet casually on the floor, or ceiling, and then in another room:)

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The printer, working from pencil

We all know what a disaster - when our favorite printer low on ink. The hair on my head wants to tear. And because the printer can be replaced, at least a few hours. But do not wait a couple of days until it will replace the cartridge. But the printer P & P Office Waste Paper Processor from designers Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan Chao Chen, and no ink is not needed! A need only penny pencils!

Printers in the last decade have learned incredible things, for example, they are now able to print on food, on water, on the human body, and indeed, on anything! But designers Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan Chao Chen and created an extraordinary printer P & P Office Waste Paper Processor, which is the old prints on paper. Here are just a special ink for it is not necessary!

 

Before you print anything on this printer, you must insert a pencil in a hole in it. There is avtotochilka. It exposes the slate, shear off with a graphite and sprays together with a special glue on the paper. It's simple and brilliant! It is simple and genius simple pencil!
The main thing in the printer P & P Office Waste Paper Processor  - is the easy handling, cheap to use and can be in any corner of a very small amount of money to buy refills for this device.

It remains only to wait for the appearance of such friendly printers on the market.

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Gesture Remote-the future of TV control

The future is here: you can now surf through TV channels and digital media using simple gestures – touch-free – with no keypad in sight. The new Gesture Remote concept from IDENT Technology allows you to control all features of your TV without having to press a single button. TV remotes need a makeover and the Gesture Remote concept might be a step in the right direction.

Gesture Remote - a revolutionary experience

As we head into a new era where the lines between traditional television and web-based multimedia begin to blur, our relationships with our devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Accessing content beyond standard TV channels - from on-demand video to social networks - requires a higher level of interactivity and a whole new breed of remote control. The innovative Gesture Remote provides a simple and intelligent interface that can be used to navigate the wide array of content available on modern TVs. Gesture Remote transforms watching television into a magical, intuitive experience.

Brand new virtual features

The Gesture Remote offers a new way to interact with your television. Using simple thumb gestures, users can now:

• Easily drag & drop or point & select content – thanks to our virtual mouse functionality
• Scroll, flick, rotate, or zoom in & out for volume control and channel selection, using Gesture Remote’s virtual sliders

The technology behind Gesture Remote

Gesture Remote uses GestIC technology from IDENT Technology to detect and track hand, finger, or body movement. This makes it possible to control products without needing to touch a screen, trackpad, or keyboard. GestIC technology adds a completely new dimension to internet and multimedia user interfaces by allowing users to interact with their devices using only hand or finger gestures.
GestIC technology enables a revolutionary new user interface by offering three-dimensional, contact-free position tracking and gesture recognition. It is unique in its ability to measure not only 3D position, but also the direction and velocity of movement in 3D space.

 Gesture Remote – enabling a new way of interacting with your TV

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Smart Fingers: Your hands as a ruler

The Smart Finger is a very neat concept device from designers Choi Hyong-Suk, Jung Ji-hye & Yoo-Jin Park that consists of two wearable silicon finger-covers that let you measure the length, breadth, or volume of any object. For small objects, you’d wear both sensors on one hand; for larger objects, you’d wear one sensor on each hand. While we don’t want for measuring tools in this day and age, the designers’ logic is that a measurement device based on and integrated with the human user’s own measurements would fall in line with a long tradition of measuring things in terms of our bodies, and that the Smart Finger measuring process would thus be more intuitive and less annoying than other measuring tools and digital measuring intstruments.

As for how the Smart Finger would work: It shoots a beam of light from one finger to the other and back and estimates a length based on the time this takes. Do this twice in two dimensions and you can measure area; do this three times and you’ve got a volume estimate. These latter two measurements sound like they’d be less useful in that they’d get less accurate if the object being measured wasn’t a perfect rectangle or rectangular prism. Still: Neat, creative gadget idea; if these were available to consumers and reasonably inexpensive, it seems plausible that people would find household uses for them, if only as a Brookstone-type curiosity.

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Nokia Kinetic Concept

Taking Nokia’s playfulness and heritage of innovative mechanism to a new level, British designer Jeremy Hopkins has come up with a unique cellphone that converting digital information into kinetic energy makes receiving a call, text message or email more playful than ever before. Intended especially toward businesspersons, the magical mobile phone responds to notifications through movement. The playful Nokia cellphone also features an electromagnet at the base to shift the weight and keep it in an upright position, allowing the user to check the screen of the phone in a playful manner. If you don’t wanna receive a call, you can simply tap the cellphone to knock it down to return back in the standby mood. In short, the Nokia Kinetic is simply a seriously playful cellphone.

 

Standing up on its own is a much cooler notification than vibrate. We also won’t need to buy an additional Nokia phone stand accessory if it can do it by itself.

Would you like to see this kind of technology in upcoming Nokia phones?

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Toast messenger

This toaster  incorporates a little message board where one can read quick notes. The message also gets “toasted” into the toast itself so it gives new meaning to “read while you eat”.

 

Designer Sasha Tseng:

“To create a pleasing dining for a beautiful morning, the toast is not only a food also a interesting enjoyment by messages. Having interactive messages and making a toast for your better half. It could improve a better relationship. For a hurry breakfast person, a schedule toast can remind the job contents. For kids, the cute comic on the toast is the best way to make them like to have a energetic breakfast. A beautiful morning begins in eating the message.”

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Stampy Digital Camera

Stampy is an amalgamation of a digital camera and a stamp. What makes it brilliant is how these two work in concert to give you fun photo sessions and even cooler review sessions. Stampy Digital Camera gives you the choice of generating a rubber-stamp version of your photograph. Meaning this version can be used on any surface or paper. It’s a great idea for birthday invitation cards or even thank you cards. Basically you can get really creative and make an array of personalized stuff with Stampy Digital Camera.

 

It’s very easy to work with as all you have to do is snap the photo, remove the back, and then put the required amount of ink onto the stamp. That’s all! Kudos to designer Jinhee Kim.

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