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INgSOC Hybrid bike has no chain, looks painful

Shane McGlaun, Jul 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

If Bumblebee was ever in a pinch and needed to turn into a bicycle to hide from the Decipticons, the INgSOC is the bike he would turn into. This thing looks like it might cut your rear end off if you sit on it. The bike uses no chain and has three modes of operation. The bike has battery-power mode, battery assist mode, and battery charge mode. Read The Full Story

Folding plug concept is the switch too

Shane McGlaun, Jul 18th 2011 Discuss [3]

I have seen a bunch of concepts for chargers and plugs over the years. Generally, the plugs are designs to save power and be more green. This new concept is a bit different and is designed to take up less space than your average plug with a head design that folds flat. The cord hinges at the prongs and the cool part is that it is the power switch too. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 29 2011

Shane McGlaun, Jul 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Welcome to this week's edition of the SlashGear Week in Review, let's get to it! The Vol Speaker concept turned up this week with a design that makes it look like a big volume knob. The concept has a rechargeable battery inside for portable listening. We learned that Android 3.2 fixes the screen incompatibility for apps that were previously handset only. The OS will get the ability to change from stretch to fill and zoom to fill the screen. Read The Full Story

MIT engineer Rosalind Picard has developed glasses that read facial expressions

Shane McGlaun, Jul 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you have ever watched the show Lie to Me, you know that their main character is a human lie detector that reads facial cues to tell if the person is lying or not. An electrical engineer at MIT has developed a new pair of reading glasses that uses a LED inside the frames to alert the wearer what the person they are talking is thinking based on facial expression. Read The Full Story

Vol Speaker concept is awesomely minimalist

Shane McGlaun, Jul 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

I love design concepts that are cool. We see concept speakers every now and again and of all of the concepts I have seen in the speaker category the Vol Speaker is the coolest. I love the idea of a speaker that looks like a giant volume knob. It looks like the designer ripped the knob off my home theater receiver, sprinkled it with Miracle Grow, and crammed speaker parts inside. The designer of the concept is Hironao Tsuboi. Read The Full Story

Florafil covers your cables with weird

Shane McGlaun, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

I will admit that cables are ugly; they are even uglier when I install something because I just don’t care what the cables running on and behind my desk look like. If you are the sort that gets a panic attack each time you see a cable showing you might want the Florafil to hide them. These are covers that you can put over just about any cable. Read The Full Story

Nikon shows off wild looking prototype and concept cameras

Shane McGlaun, Jun 28th 2011 Discuss [5]

Nikon isn’t exactly a company I associate with out there designs and concept devices. The company does design some though and has several concepts and prototypes on display in France at the Hello Demain exhibition. The first of the concepts in the photo below is a very interesting looking camera that has more than just interchangeable lenses. Apparently the camera has interchangeable LCD, lens, and grips to customize the camera to your needs. That is a cool idea, we can customize the lens to our needs with a DSLR, why not the rest of the camera too. Read The Full Story

Best summer toy ever adds hand guard to your stick sword

Shane McGlaun, Jun 27th 2011 Discuss [0]

We spent a lot of time playing games during the summers when I was a kid because its 173-degrees in Texas for nearly four months out of the year. We would occasionally venture out into the woods to tear stuff up and run amuck though. The best thing ever was happening on those sticks that survey crews hammer into the ground. We had no idea what they were at the time, but finding one was like finding Excalibur. The ribbons tied to them even made a great handle wrap. Read The Full Story

Augmented Reality Cinema App Brings You Into Movies Shot At Your Location

Rue Liu, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [1]

Augmented reality is increasingly being used in creative ways for apps, games, and shopping experiences. The visual combination of what's captured real-time in the physical environment with that which is "augmented" creates very interesting results with many applications and possibilities. Some are more useful while others are simply fun. And one of these fun apps to come is the "Augmented Reality Cinema" app that brings you movie scenes shot at your location. Read The Full Story

Steampunk rotary smartphone combines grandma’s old phone with your touchscreen

Shane McGlaun, Jun 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

When I was a kid I had an old-fashioned rotary phone in my room because it was shaped like an airplane. It was cool. After I outgrew that airplane phone with the rotary propeller, I never had another phone that didn’t use buttons. My grandmother rocked that old-fashioned looking rotary phone for years though in one of the extra rooms in her house. The good thing about those rotary phones was no one could sneak in a phone call, you could hear the snick, snick, snick, sound of the dial turning all over the house. Read The Full Story

Anderson concept is part notebook and part tablet

Shane McGlaun, Jun 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

I like to see concept products from designers that hint at the things we will see in the future. I think the cool Anderson concept you see here is something that we will likely see in the future. It was designed by Ma Yiwei and Tao Ying specifically to fill the gap between a notebook and a tablet computer. The concept would be about the size of a small tablet with a keyboard module. Read The Full Story