Tag Archive for 'future-tech'
Having got my hands on a 3G cellphone the other week (the Nokia N80, actually), I excitedly prepared to make my first video call… only to remember that I’m the only person amongst my friends, as far as I know, to have a 3G phone. So I’m very pleased to hear that the GSM Association [...]
Sounds like HP has been doing some “outside the box” thinking lately, if the prototypes in its Concept & Design Innovation Tour are anything to go by. Charged with designing the shape and ethos of the gadgets we’ll be playing with in 2016, HP’s futurologists have decided that less is definitely more - both in [...]
Perhaps the only worse thing than some sort of gorgeous prototype by a manufacturer which you know will never be built is a gorgeous prototype by someone entirely unconnected with the company - at least in the first scenario you know there’s a chance elements of the concept willl get picked up in later handsets. [...]
Twiddling your memory knobs back to August this year you might remember SlashGear’s coverage of the Onyx concept phone, designed and crafted by bespoke hardware and interface designers Synaptics and Pilotfish. With no physical controls such as the keypad, joystick or scroll wheels found on traditional phones, Onyx instead relies on a system of touch, [...]
I’m a total Tablet PC convert, so the sight of a renovated Intel Ruby prototype brings joy to my pen-loving eyes. Ruby was a design concept by the processor firm to signpost the direction it saw its ultra-mobile, energy efficient chips heading in; a thin framed compact touchscreen tablet, the media inevitably compared it to [...]
During a senior citizen’s charity barn dance last year, my grandmother was the victim of a very slow hit-and-run incident when one of the other participant’s wheelchairs ran over her foot. With tragedy like this lacing our streets on an almost bi-daily basis, it’s a corn-fed shock to the system that wheelchair users are not [...]
Scientists are often characterised as geeks lacking in even the most basic social skills, but someone over at New Scientist obviously thinks that robots should not be excused from minding their Ps & Qs.
In fact, they suggest that all robots that come into contact with humans should have kansei, a Japanese term for emotional notions; [...]
Treehugger have an intriguing post about a self-rearranging home that gradually alters its configuration with the changing weather and time of day.
“A small channel in the floor has stopped streaming cold water, and now appears to be releasing steam. Presumably this is was intended to add a dash [of] humidity and warmth to the room”
It’s [...]
CBS announced plans for a new interactive marketing campaign that uses Bluetooth enabled billboards to send video clips from the fall lineup right to your mobile devices such as a cell phones, smart phones or PDA. If you find yourself near one of these billboards, and desire to download the 30-second video clip, make sure [...]
Look ma’ no batteries required for my Yo-Yo MP3 player! Well, actually not so soon, because this is still very much theoretical, and production units are still a ways off. Chris Aimone and Tomek Bartczak are the brains behind the Yo-Yo powered MP3 player. This is how it works conceptually: slap a rotor, some electromagnetic [...]
