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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Save Nabaztag: because we don’t like to see bunnies die
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! Continue Reading →
“Beam me up, Scotty!” *
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 Captain Kirk would have traded his transponder’s communicator for that one instead…
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More on Beam me up, Scotty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_me_up,_Scotty
iPhone killer…
Sadly just a design study and not something which will be announced this year at any major consumer electronic events, this Nokia E97 Envelop is the work of 23 year-old Paris student, Fabien Nauroy. The concept has a full keyboard in “AZERTY” layout, with a small LCD screen above the keyboard. But the best part is the pull-out LED screen that can work as a storage device, and make file and picture sharing somewhat retro, and also futuristic. Continue Reading →
Pixalize me I’m famous!
Mexico City, March 13th 2009 (GMT -6h) – Here I am, finally, on the tierra del Tequila, after a 12 hours chaotic flight spent in the middle of a group of french rednecks. Although the flight was ok, the temptation to bail them out over the North Atlantic Ocean was really hard to resist… but I managed to make it there and even to survive the Mexican customs!
So I’m now here standing in front of the luggage carousel, waiting for my suitcase together with the other 450 passengers of my flight…
Despite the fact that we have accepted nowadays the need to traverse shoeless, beltless and beverageless through airport security, most of us still can’t stave off baggage carousel gridlock by bringing along anything other than a black roller bag. I’m among the guilty who assumes that my beat-up Samsonite stands out due to a few strands of green yarn I’ve affixed to the handle. Continue Reading →
Mobilis in mobili* (my home in a container)
Tired of your neighbors? Feel like reniewing the visual perspective on the buildings accross the street you’ve been sharing for the past years? Want to have your new home built in three days (without the help of the noisy team of Extreme Makeover Home Edition)? Or are you too original to stand leaving in a place which looks like any other?
If you’re either an industrial design concept lover, early adopter or “stay mobile” fan (but too posh to accept living in a mobile-home) you’ll probably love the idea developped by Adam Kalkin, an “artist, architect and many other things” as he likes to describe himself…