Tag Archive for 'future-tech'

Daniel Meyer from Central St. Martin’s School; won Nokia’s design competition with this uber-sexy looking phone. It’s a phone by day and piece of furniture by night. It may even pass as an Apple iPhone! Great work Danny boy, you’ll grow up to be a fine designer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pvkv8jaxkE

Chalk this up in the Rumor column for the time being, but the latest gossip making its way across the Web is that the Wii, which will already feature a built-in microphone on its “Wii-mote” controller, might also have some nifty voice-recognition features. While we’re not entirely sure how this will translate to the games [...]

I can’t remember the last time I’d used the word awesome, cool or wow in relation to Microsoft. Continue reading because this is TouchLight business is going to change the way we work in the not too distant future (maybe even by the end of the year, per Harnett). I’m not going to [...]

UPDATE 08/28/2006: Added hi-res image and retail product sheet, thanks to SSG for the high-resolution image of the SIRIUS Stiletto and GSI.
Oh boy – I’m getting chills down my neck as I eagerly write about the Sirius Stiletto 100. I confess that when Howard Stern moved to Sirius, I was one of the [...]

Since the dawn of time, the wrist is the best place to wear a watch. Sure there’s the pocket watch, but get heavy on the belt, creates a big bulge in your pocket (and it’s not the good bulge) or just inconvenience to pull in and out just to tell time. [...]

Flip phone design is very popular and whether it’ll catch on as a flip remote control is yet to be seen.  A remote control is just a remote control (in my opinion) – when was the last time you commented on how sexy a remote control looks or feel?  I’m a lazy couch [...]

A team of researchers led by professor Charles Xavier Kazuo Tanaka from University of Electro-Communications has developed a prototype of an electric wheelchair that users can use their brain to control simply by thinking of which direction to head towards. Before taking the mind-controlled wheelchair for a stroll, you’d need strap on a skullcap [...]

Now why didn’t I think of this? Conceptually this is a really good idea to provide an all in one mobile home if you will for the homeless. There’s an area to store and carry recyclable materials that are then sold – this is one means of supporting themselves. [...]

Researchers at Akishima Laboratories and professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University have developed a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of water.  Writing on water is possible thanks to 50 water wave generators encircling a cylindrical tank 1.6 meters in diameter and 30 cm deep.  The generators move up [...]