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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