Friday, 17 April 2009

Cloud Sofa: Floating Lounge Concept Will Put You On Cloud Nine

Did you ever watch the clouds as a kid and imagine resting peacefully on their soft fluffiness? Well, it certainly seems designer D.K. Wei did, as evidenced by this unique concept design called Cloud Sofa – which emulates that fantasy perfectly.

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Thursday, 26 March 2009

Mercedes F-CELL: Old Meets New In Modern Horseless Carriage

In what is one hellofa training project, 150 students at Daimler AG have put together a concept car called the Mercedes F-CELL, which marries high-tech roadster engineering with the charm of early horseless carriages.

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Friday, 13 March 2009

Cargonaut Flying Robot Concept Is Your Personal Air-Courier

Here’s a novel concept that manages to merge old tech with new, in a very exciting and beneficial way. Called the Cargonaut, it is essentially a flying robotic servant that will courier everything from letters, to luggage, to groceries across town for you to help lighten your load.

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Thursday, 12 March 2009

Movable Power Concept Plugs Flexibility Into Power-Strip Design

Power-strips are handy little devices, but they are by no means perfect. Their rigid shape often means having to rearrange furniture in order to work with their design limitations. Well, this concept by designer Jeff Carter aims to change all that. Called Movable Power, it is a friendly-looking power-strip that can be shaped to fit around furniture in a similar fashion to cabling.

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Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Asus Unveils Dual-Panel Touchscreen “FlipBook” PC

Asus is showing off a “Community Designed PC” concept at CeBIT 2009, that incorporates two touchscreen panels in a “FlipBook” style design. The dual-panel notebook aims to offer a more flexible and intuitive working space by incorporating a virtual touchpad and keyboard, as well as gesture control and handwriting recognition.

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Monday, 2 March 2009

Audi Shark Concept: A Flying Car With Bite

It’s not like we haven’t seen ocean inspired concepts or flying cars before, but this design by Kazim Doku called the Audi Shark really gets your motor running. Seemingly inspired by the sleek yet powerful appearance of sharks, it won the 2008 Desire Design Competition at Domus Academy and looks like it would be just at home under the water, as well as in the sky for which it was designed.

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Friday, 27 February 2009

SunCat Batteries Are Self-Charging, Wrapped In Solar Cells.

Using rechargeable batteries is a great way to cut down on the waste we produce and to save money at the same time, but you need to be organized and keep a charger on hand. Well, inventor Knut Karlsen has come up with a clever solution that crosses a solar charger and a rechargeable cell to make, what is essentially, a self-charging battery.

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Thursday, 18 December 2008

Solar Sunglasses Concept Could Power Gadgets…Maybe.

What’s not to love about a gadget that can provide free electricity to your portable devices on-the-go? That’s the thinking behind these solar panel-packing sunglasses. Called the Self-Energy Generating Glasses, or confusingly SIG, this alien-eyewear will supposedly collect energy from sunlight and transfer it to a cellphone or iPod via a power jack at the end of one of the arms.

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Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Gesture-Controlled Trackpad Light Switch Concept Is Not Dim

The traditional light switch is a great invention. Cheap, reliable and simple to operate. But these days, when we engineer increasingly complex lighting setups with dimmer switches and central control panels, we need something a little more intuitive.

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Friday, 24 October 2008

Audi Calamaro: Flying Sports Car Concept

The Audi Calamaro is a futuristic concept car designed by Tibor, a Hungarian design student. Its mad futuristic styling seems to cross a dolphin, a speed boat and a jet fighter and I can’t help but draw a comparison to the awesome Seabreacher submarine.

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