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What the world needs are more concept devices, and thankfully here come Pilotfish with their Ondo to fill that gap.  Best known for their work on the Synaptics Onyx interface, Pilotfish have now turned their attention to more media-centric mobile devices with the Ondo cellphone concept, a twistable, touch-sensitive and modular music experience. 

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Music workstations have been around for many years, but we’re yet to see something as slick as this Vivace concept.  Designed by Young-Shin Lee and Hae-Jin Jung, the Vivace is a clamshell touchscreen instrument and computer, which offers multi-function playback, recording and editing all in one device.

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Segway P.U.M.A. Project

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Apr 7th 2009 No Comments

Segway and GM have partnered to develop the P.U.M.A., a self-balancing individual vehicle in which the two riders have some degree of weather protection.  The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) Project can travel up to 35mph, run 35 miles from one charge, and uses vehicle-to-vehicle communications to avoid collisions.

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A concept MID from BenQ’s Qisda Creative Design Center has won a red dot design award.  The BenQ Qisda QPD-111 MID has a 5-inch multitouch-capable touchscreen display and a large red “Hot Key” which, according to the design brief, would instantly trigger an internet connection.

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Sadly just a design study and not something we’ll see announced at CTIA this week, this Nokia E97 Envelop is the work of Fabien Nauroy.  Comprising a QWERTY-bearing outer casing, with an integrated basic display, the Envelop’s secret is a pull-out display pane.

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First things first, we’re calling April Fools’ Day on this.  Nonetheless, someone has gone to some serious Photoshop effort for this MacBook mini as featured in a Russian magazine.  Purported specs include a 10.4-inch WXGA display, Intel Atom Z740 1.83GHz processor (with 1MB L2 cache), 2GB of DDR3 RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics.

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The Nokia Aeon was an obvious concept even when we first saw it, all the way back in 2006, but according to a Dutch newspaper online retailer Bestelmaar.nl will be exclusively offering the touchscreen handset from next week.  In what seems to be the run-up to an April Fools’ Day prank, both green and blue versions of the handset are listed for €799 each.

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ASUS’ AIRO Fold/Unfold concept notebook – which was shown at CES and CeBIT – is headed for a launch in September or October 2009, priced at between $1,000 and $1,500.  That’s the word according to ASUS CEO Jerry Shen, who is positioning the innovatively-folding ultraportable as a more affordable and economical PC version of the MacBook Air.

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Paco living cube

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 18th 2009 2 Comments

Ask architects Sschemata and designer Jo Nagasaka about the future of minimalist housing, and they’ll tell you it’s a big white box.  A 3m-square cube called Paco, in fact, their all-in-one living pod that apparently has everything you (minimally) need to live, plus a big flip-up lid.

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The story behind the Lenovo Pocket Yoga has emerged, courtesy of Johnson Li, Director of Lenovo’s Beijing Innovation Center where the first blurry images of the netbook were snapped.  Despite what the images released earlier today might suggest, the Pocket Yoga is no new design but in fact a two year old concept.

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