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Dark Knight Batcave home theater prepped for real-life Wayne

, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

While it'll just cost you a couple million bucks to pick up the full Dark Knight Batcave home theater experience you're about to look at, we're thinking only a few rather rich ladies and gentlemen will be considering it seriously. What Elite Home Theater Seating does is to create fantastically comfortable chairs for your home theater setup to watch movies in complete comfort. What they've done here is to create a Batman-themed theater in a rendering program to blow your mind right up and over the top of your skull so that you'll empty your wallet directly into theirs. Read The Full Story

iPen teased in Apple patent

, May 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

The folks at Apple have once again pushed out a patent for a device they've never before suggested they'd go through with, this time an "iPen" complete with haptic feedback and a speaker. This device has been discovered by Patently Apple will likely never see the light of day, but was indeed filed by inventors Aleksandar Pance and Omar Leung for Apple back in the fourth quarter of 2010 and was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office today. Have a peek at what might have been - or what may be in the near future. Read The Full Story

Quad the green tech Tamagotchi toy for kids

, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Here's a new toy concept that can help instill green values in your kids when it comes to using renewable energy. A toy designed by Endrit Hanjo, called the Quad, works like the Tamagotchi toys of yesteryears but it comes with a catch. For the toy to be kept alive, your kids will need to keep it well fed on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy. Read The Full Story

Mercedes-Benz DICE interior concept hands-on

, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [3]

Attendees exploring CES 2012 earlier this month traveling through the automotive section of the convention would have had a difficult time not at least glimpsing the Mercedez-Benz DICE Interior Concept. In a giant mirrored box sat a completely cushiony set of seats with car dashboard and driving wheel as well as a front windshield, both the windshield and the dashboard proving themselves instantly to be more than meets the eye. This was the DICE, or Dynamic and Intuitive Control Experience, and it was with gestures that one controlled this futuristic dream technology.

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Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera details released, still seeks investors

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

Back in October we first mentioned the next generation in image capturing, that being the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera as developed at Professor Marc Alexa's Computer Graphics Group at Technische University in Berlin - today what we've got is a whole new batch of details on the ball as well as a renewed call to action by the group as they start their search for a third party to license out further development and production! We've also got this nifty photo of the ball as it currently appears opened up, guts exposed and everything - how about that? Is this the panoramic third dimension of photo collection you've been waiting for all your life? Read The Full Story

HP radical brand redesign proposal revealed

, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [10]

HP's identity could certainly use a makeover and apparently the company has been actively looking into making some changes during the past few years. Moving Brands, a company specializing in branding, was hired back in 2008 to re-envision HP's image and has come up with something that was apparently too radical for HP's tastes. The branding company has recently made the project available for the public to take a look, including rendered images and videos. Read The Full Story

Compleat disposable coffee cup axes the lid, startup set to score big

, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [7]

Designer Peter Herman has created a concept for the all-paper disposable cup, made for coffee but perfectly viable for other liquids, that is set to blow the lid off of the industry - literally. Currently working for architectural firm Ellenzweig in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and having hacked away at this concept for over two years and a hundred prototypes now, Herman has it down to one single piece of paper. Working with graphic design firm Proverb's Daren Bascome to create the visuals you see printed on the cups here, Herman is prepping his concept for the big time now - speaking with manufacturers and retailers right this minute. Read The Full Story

Honda shows off EV-STER concept electric car at 2011 Tokyo Motor Show

, Nov 30th 2011 Discuss [3]

Honda has unveiled its futuristic-looking electric concept roadster called the EV-STER just a few days ahead of the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show set to take place from December 3 through December 11. We've seen some very Tron-inspired renderings of the vehicle earlier this month, but now we get photos of the real thing along with a few more details on the specs. Read The Full Story

Apple “iTV” rumors persist and now a concept rendering

, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [60]

Following revelations from Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, long simmering rumors of an Apple "iTV" television set have boiled over with the latest reports claiming it's a matter of "when" and not "if." A new wave of speculation on an upcoming Apple product certainly can't be without concept renderings and that's what we have here from artist Guilherme M. Schasiepen. Read The Full Story

Sony Echo stamps sound for later listening

, Oct 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

The following concept design comes from a workshop held yearly by Sony, the product being here a hand-held device that records sounds, attaches them to symbols, and stamps them on objects for later scanning. When you scan a symbol later on, the device plays back the sound you recorded at an earlier date. Can you imagine the possibilities this simple set of functions could hold? Fantabulous! Read The Full Story

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera has us seeing spherical potential

, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [26]

Each time there is a new way to capture media, especially when that means is inexpensive, the world goes nuts trying to see how they can show off their life and times with it. That's what's about to happen with this ball camera, the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, that is, a project that's currently Patent Pending and has been in the works, apparently, since back in 2010. The project has progressed to the point here in late 2011 where the designers feel it strong enough to present to the public - just toss it up in the air and at it's peak - SNAP - you've got a complete 360 degree view of the environment the ball is in. How's that for a new way of seeing things? Read The Full Story

Iris transparent tablet concept, augmented reality meets scanning

, Aug 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

Here's a really neat tablet concept that combines a transparent screen with augmented reality capabilities and a scanner. The different ways in which a tablet of this combination can be used seems endless, from purely scanning documents to translating text while hovering over a page to being an easy augmented reality navigation tool. Read The Full Story
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