While some may think that the design of the bottle could be look at again, the i-dration water bottle is certainly a good idea. Designed for those who need water on the go, such as athletes, this new design concept shows that you can not only connect anything to your smartphone in one way or another, but that doing so can help you overall health.
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Prosthetic Arm Features Flexible Tentacle Design
Most prosthetic limb replacements focus on returning regular movements to those who need them. Prosthetic legs move in a natural way, or as best as they can, while prosthetic arms usually have a regular five-fingered hand at the end, helping those who have lost a limb use their artificial ligament in a more natural fashion. But, when a student is asked to "push the boundaries" of upper-limb prosthetic design, you shouldn't expect to find a design you'd find in the box.
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eJOUX Concept Design Shows Electronic Jewelry is the Way of the Future
Slapping electronic things on every day items, especially electronic things that move or offer shiny lights, seems to be the way the future wants to embrace those every day items, and there's nothing wrong with that. Especially when it comes to every day items like jewelry, and it gets outfitted with a flexible display, where the owner is able to put anything they want on there, from moving images, to information about who's calling you. That's what the eJOUX electronic jewelry concept design is all about.
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Concept Design Shows Smartphone Floating in Mid-Air to Charge Battery
This brand new smartphone and charging cradle concept from designers In-Oh Yoo and Sun-woong Oh, reaches the limits of awesomeness, and at the same time make us wonder why on Earth someone out there hasn't made this a reality yet. Of course, there's a few design elements, like with many concept designs out there, that may make someone scratch their head in confusion. But, the overall picture here is one that blends the lines between science-fiction and reality, even if the whole thing is a dream right now.
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BlackBerry Empathy Concept Device Can Determine Your Mood [Video]
Sometimes, the mood you're in can determine how you use your phone. Who you talk to, text, or even whether or not you browse the Web while you are out and about. And sometimes it can be frustrating that your phone doesn't feel you. Well, thanks to a pair of designers, that could change some day. This fresh new design for a smartphone, called the BlackBerry Empathy, is designed to not only read your mood, but also react to it.
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Volvo’s Air Motion Concept Car Runs on Air
Probably the best part of being a concept, is that you get to use your imagination a little bit more than you would in an actual production model. At least, until you have to figure out how to actually get what you conceptualized to work in the real world. While we've seen plenty of other concept vehicles in the past work on all sorts of things, this new design from Volvo, called the Air Motion Concept, is a design that would have the vehicle running on nothing but the air.
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The FOKI Will Clean the Floor While You Walk
While you're walking around your home, or maybe even in a restaurant or retail location, you sometimes notice that a spot on the floor may be sticky, or have a spill on it that you wish you could clean up, right then and there. But sometimes getting something to clean it isn't all that easy, so what if your shoes could clean it? That's where the FOKI come in.
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Taiwan Tower in Taichung Features Helium Balloons Instead of Elevators
The Taiwan Tower may look like a concept right now, but it won't for long. This is one concept that, just as it was being drawn up and planned, had already been given the green light to be built into the real world. The Taiwan Tower, which will be built in Taichung in the near future, will not only be the tallest building in that particular city, but it will also substitute elevators for something completely unorthodox: balloons.
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Day Shade Night Light Solar Powered Patio Umbrella Conceptualized
It used to be that people didn't mind having all sorts of items lying around them, whether it was on their desk, or their table. But, in today's world, bringing together multiple pieces of technology, and creating one ultimate gadget is the focus, and that's why this patio umbrella just makes sense. After all, why wouldn't you want to combine your umbrella with a light?
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Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept Car is Grown Inside a Nursery
Concept cars are meant to look fantastic. They're a shining image, or model, of what car company's have planned for the years to come. It's unfortunate that most of those concepts are never brought to life, especially when they look as unique, and as awesome as this Mercedes-Benz Biome concept car does. Just one look, and this is a vehicle that you'd want to drive. But, it's when you get into the details of the vehicle, that things great really interesting.
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ECODRIVE Bicycle Features Integrated Turn Signals, iPhone Dock
We've seen what an iPhone dock in a Harley-Davidson would look like, but while listening to music your music through the speakers may be one thing, the integration between bike and iDevice wasn't as complete as we would have liked. And that's why we have concepts, and why we love them. This design concept is from designer Juil Kim, and it's called the ECODRIVE. It's a bicycle that features integrated lights, turning signals, and lets you dock your iPhone for good measure.
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Samsung’s displays get video demo: dual-AMOLED MID, flexible screens & transparent notebooks
Samsung's new displays have been all over the place today, with 7-inch Super AMOLED panels for the next-gen Galaxy Tab, and a 10.1-inch skinny screen for a tablet teaser. It turns out they were only the start of it: NetbookNews spotted a dual-screen 4.5-inch PenTile AMOLED MID prototype, various flexible displays - including one being folded in half - and a transparent 14-inch AMOLED shown in a notebook mockup.
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