Gadgets of the future(?!)
The Pencil Printer is a nice concept printer that doesn't use ink powder or laser printer, because it uses just an ordinary pencil. The pencil power gives the possibility to write and erase, if you made a mistake. The paper you print on it, if you don't need it anymore you can recycle it and use it in the future. This futuristic gadget does all the work for you, because it has an eraser cartridge that erases all words you have printed on the paper and it can write something else on it. The designer of this concept gadget is Hoyoung Lee and we hope that this will become more than a concept design, because it is great and no more problems with the printer cartridges, because everyone will have a pencil to give.
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These days, many big tech and gadget players are working on great concepts to produce futuristic gadgets. Some of these futuristic gadgets sound little unrealistic that may take years to produce. Of course, it wouldn't be a surprise for big players to do that as they plenty of fund into research to make them come true one day.
But surprisingly, a smaller scaled company is also doing that, one of them is the 13 Tech Design, which has just come out with a new conceptual device called scroll.
The scroll is a conceptual device that might sound little far from the realistic. It will pack a touchscreen-based cellphone, a 10 megapixel camera and 1080p camcorder, various media-playing features, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and a full-fledged computer that runs on Vista or XP.
As suggested by the name, the device will resemble a scroll. Scrolling is the action that you need on this futuristic gadget to get its screen wider in order for you comfortably read the multimedia centric content on its screen. And also to use its full fledged QWERTY.
Bionic Vision with Cybernetic Contact Lenses
What if contact lenses could not only help you see better, but deliver directions, news, email and weather reports directly to your eyes? The technology is already here, according to a report by Babak A. Parviz, a bionanotechnology expert at the University of Washington. Tiny components like LED lights, tiny antennae and special circuits can be embedded into the polymer of a typical contact lens. A small portable device would process the information, and the lenses could even be used to measure and process information about the user's health.
Samsung's LED LCD HDTV Lineup: The C9000 Does 3D and Has a Video-Previewing Touch Remote
Samsung's LED LCD televisions are here and the flagship C9000 is a doozy. It's the only one they're calling "ultra thin", has 3D support in late 2010 and a touch remote that shows you content from other video sources!
The thinness (it's as skinny as a pencil) is achieved by shoving lots of guts into the pedestal, which doubles as a wall mount. The set can convert 2D content into 3D, although I'm sure of dubious quality. The remote looks rather Apple-ish in UI, but it can show you, as I said before, content from other sources, like live TV while watching a Blu-ray on the big screen. It has 240Hz tech, which we've never noticed as important in image quality, but it's there (needed for 3D). No word on sizes or prices, yet. There's Samsung app support, but platforms like these are never really well supported. The frame is very shiny.
Visual Sound Is A Phone Concept For The Deaf With Transparent Touchscreen
We don't give much thought to deaf users of phones, but Pratt Institute student Suhyun Kimhas worked hard on this stunning Visual Sound concept, which converts voice to text and vice versa.
The scroll-like device has a touchscreen for text to be typed in, which then gets converted to voice for the other person on the line, whose audio then turns into text for the deaf user of the phone to read. If the Visual Sound concept ever got put into production, I'll be one of the first to snag one—not only does it look great, but it might help when phoning from noisy locations, as I'm prone to do. [Yanko Design via Recombu]
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A Charged Battery Is But 130 Conceptual Twirls Away
We've seen batteries charged by outlets and by cranks, but this concept from designers Song Teaho and Hyejin Lee is the first that charges with a twirl.
However, like all things tagged concept, this battery doesn't *technically* exist yet.
Still, Teaho and Lee both hypothesize that this battery, should it become the real deal, would require about 130 twirls for two-minutes talk time.
From what I've seen of crank-charged batteries, that seems relatively plausible (and tiring). Get to work, fellas.
Dell Froot Concept Design Does Away with Keyboard, Monitor
With the environment and sustainability firmly in mind the Dell Froot concept saves the planet courtesy two projectors: One for the virtual keyboard, and another for the monitor.
Designed by Pauline Carlos as part of a sustainability contest sponsored by Dell, the Froot also uses a colorful case that's constructed out of a biodegradable starch-based polymer. As it's a futuristic concept, the lack of a mouse is understabdable—we'll no doubt be using our brains by then.
More seriously, Pico projectors are *almost* there, but not quite, otherwise I'd be asking why this is still just a concept
How could Christopher Nolan ever follow up on the Tumbler? Maybe he won't. Maybe Batman will just walk. But should Nolan give in to inevitable studio pressure to design another new, marketable Battoy, I humbly propose this modified Lamborghini Ankonian.
A concept Russian design student Slavche Tanevski, the Ankonian, named after a breed of black-haired bull, combines sleek and angularity through a series of winged panels that appear carved from some metal obsidian alloy engineered for sheer badassery. And OLED lights built directly into the body, while a slight stretch of the imagination, are a welcome touch.
If Batman won't take it, we most certainly will. (Though if Bruce Wayne could still provide the funds, that might help.)
[Car Design via AutoMotto via LikeCool]
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