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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