I always have this big issue to deal with when I’m travelling “light”: “what should I do with the dozen of plastic cards I have in my wallet?”. I have plastic cards for almost everything: of course my credit card, ID card and driving licence, but also my various customer cards, membership card from various associations and finally frequent flyer card for different airlines.
I let you imagine what my wallet looks like at the end of the day. So it’s always a big deal, when I’m trying to travel light, …

Maptor is an innovative portable map projector concept by Jin-Sun Park and Seon-Keun Park that promises to eliminate the need for paper maps.
Equipped with GPS and a small projector, Maptor allows the user to display map on almost any surface and view their current location. It somehow reminds me the mobile phone with embedded GPS which displays arrows on the ground in “Microsoft’s vision to the future”.
Creating a concept is nice, turning it into reality is even better.

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Here’s a video showcasing some of the future technologies dreamt up by Nokia and introduced at Nokia World. According to Nokia, this new concept featured in the video allows people to experience immersion and effortless navigation through new types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Thanks to these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.

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Want more? go and visit Nokia labs

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“And then the invasion slowly started, deeply burying its roots in the neuralgic points of major industrial cities, before it spread all over the World.
And there they were, all around us, before we realized it was too late.”
To that point you are maybe wondering if this is some kind of stupid joke like the Crop Circles, a punk movement like the Army of the Twelve Monkeys or if this is real and we are under the threat of an Alien-like invasion.
“None of them” you’ll say. And you’re damn right and …

While browsing the news today I just came up with a couple of articles from serious publications celebrating the release at IFA of one of Philips’ latest innovation: the CushionSpeaker.
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Lets be honest. You wouldn’t normally associate bunny rabbits with cutting-edge technology and superior intelligence.
Of course there was that time Bugs Bunny outwitted Marvin the Martian using an Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator but we’re talking real-life here! Maybe that’s why thousands of fans worldwide have been utterly gobsmacked by Nabaztag/tag. Derived from the Armenian word for rabbit, this ingenious Wi-Fi-enabled bunny has revolutionned the way Wi-Fi fans receive information about… well, about anything!
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On Time Sound headset system is a Project that looks into the future, aiming to new trends and styles. According to Pedro Gomes, its conceptor, this device “re-designs the concept of headsets as a futuristic clock-bracelet. When using it as an headset, the bracelet works as a clock and the LCD touchpad screen allows the user to see the caller id. When calling, the bracelet vibrates for a silent warning and to answer the calls, it only needs one touch on the screen and two to reject it.”
No doubt that …

Here is a prototype of food container specifically designed for office workers (or urban nomads always on the go…) who do not even have time to heat their lunch in the microwave oven during their lunch break.
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