The concept is designed by Alan Li, who imagines a type of extension accessory that slides together both forming a protective case and turning the iPhone 4 into a portable gaming device. The sleek design upholds Apple’s aesthetic while adding a joypad, four-button game control, and external speakers.

The accessory if it ever becomes a reality will surely make gaming thumbs happy. But, Apple would certainly have to work out some deal with Sony to get any quality console-like games that would require full-on game controls. I don’t see that happening.

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The Feno design concept is very Apple-esque in its clean and sleek aluminum look, although its renderings are showing a Windows desktop. But what makes it unique is that the concept involves folding into thirds, with the screen being folded in half right through the center. Van Hoof imagines utilizing flexible OLED display technology to allow the screen to be wrapped around the body of the notebook. A unique hinge with a curved cavity lets the screen bend without creasing.

The keyboard area is shortened by removing the typical trackpad and replacing it with a small portable mouse that can be inserted into the side of the notebook. Van Hoof claims that the shortened keyboard depth also allows folks to type without having to rest their wrists on a flat surface, thus making for better ergonomics.

Hopefully, when flexible OLED displays become standard, we wont have to deal with the annoying split-screen effect of the Kyocera Echo and the Sony S2.

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Well, just check out this list (also, more pics in the gallery):

• 16:9 full HD Amoled Multi touch screen Capacitive type with DTP (Dual Touch Pro for multitouch capability)
• Built-in HD Stereo Speakers
• Built-in HD Microphone
• Gyroscope, accelerometer, ambient light sensor
• 2 analog sticks
• Chat with your friends ( Wimax or 4G), by text, headset bluetooth or Visio
• Download Apps from the Android Market
• Share content and download movies
• Synchronize content with your Android phone
• Built-in GPS System with HP Localization (high precision mode)
• Follow your contacts in real time on the map (MAPlayers zone app)
• Front Camera 8MP HD and 3D 12MP rear camera
• Visio Gaming (watch your friends through the screen and play with them by Visio
• M.I.S.S. touch buttons (Media, I+,Select, Start buttons vibrate to confirm your order and illuminate when you turn the Consolor on
• The Swin’ Bar allows player to access all the contents, volume, 3D effects, camera settings etc…
• Mobile Network connectivity: 4G, Bluetooth 2.1, WiMax, ConsolorR Mode, DLNA,DP Connect Technology4.0sW (Play your game via your TV Full HD 3D wireless)
• Inductive charging
• 250 GB Internal Memory
• Multitask without lag

Ok, but here’s my question. Why do this on a separate gaming console? Why not put it all on a smartphone? That seems to be where things are going. What do you think? Would you want one of these?

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First off, this isn’t a design that’s going to include touchscreens, buttons, or any of that fancy kind of stuff. Right now it’s just something that can work as an oldschool telephone handset, but it’s in a piece of cardboard. All you have to do to turn this flat thing into an ergonomic handset is squeeze the sides together gently. The breaks in the cardboard will bend and it’ll transform.

This isn’t going to change your life or anything, but it does demonstrate how far we’ve really come in making the things we need smaller and more convenient. Cool.

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Take a look at the gallery. What do you think, is there a market for this?

The designer is Park Hyun Jin.

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The battery is an IF Concept Design entrant for 2011.

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You walk in the front door to your brand new house, you haven’t even slept here one night yet. The glow of your Taewon Hwang designed home-lighting-panel illuminates your entry with a soft glow. You toss your keys on the hook next to the door and press the three different buttons to illuminate your path to the kitchen. Taewon Hwang imagines an intuitive design for whole-house lighting systems able to be controlled from custom panels set anywhere in the house.

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He may also be a bit of a sociopath, because the mechanism by which this thing wakes you up is both ruthless and devastatingly effective. Upon waking you up, it rings “incessantly” until you answer from one to three brain teasers. The battery compartment is tamper-resistant. I hope they make it thrown-against-the-damn-wall resistant too.

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This is the ORBO watch series by Zach Starr Weiss, and it’s about 3 steps away from production. The image you see above is one of many, each of them rendered in some 3D illustration software or another. The display is so flat it’s going to have to be E-Ink, and the watch quality is going to have to be so high it can get back the money it’s put into the display.

We want this watch, so what you’re gonna have to do is find Zach, or just post in the comments below, tell Zach where to find someone who wants to produce his watches, and get this show on the road. I’ll take the white one you see above. Thanks!

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The design as it is offers three branches from where green charging cables extend to juice up your devices. Three may not be enough for most folks, but this design concept is just a starting point. I imagine this could evolve into many different forms with possibly even modular add-on branches.

Perhaps a mini Christmas tree version bedecked with ornaments of iPhones?

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According to Friebe, “As the first of its kind, the Loewe Invisio introduces technical innovation, combining conventional LCD and the latest TOLED display technology. This allows to create non-transparent / solid moving pictures with rich color reproduction and full contrast range from solid black to pristine white.”

The Leowe Invisio has been entered for a 2011 IF Concept Design award, an international competition for professionals in the areas of design, architecture, marketing and engineering.
No word yet on how much one of these will cost, but this may just be the future of TV.

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The 4″ display candy-bar form-factor has its limitations. There’s only so much you can do with a device like that before adding in peripherals. This new concept phone from designer Lin Jian Feng may be able to squeeze a big shot of additional power into the handset.

It has a medium-sized plastic bezel/body that detaches from the screen and slides out to reveal two halves of a keyboard, complete with a rolling-ball mouse and a left/right/middle mouse button key. The display will also be able to fold up out of the body, using it as a base to allow for more comfortable extended viewing.

MIDs are supposed to be a dead platform, but I’d buy the hell out of any smartphone that was a freaking Transformer. Every other gadget nerd raised on cartoons would be compelled to do the same. Lin Jian Feng is a genius.

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Easy to install, easy on the eyes, easy on the environment, and easy on the city’s checkbook, this flexible traffic signal can wrap around trees or existing utility poles.

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This camera goes by the name “Klipp Concept Camera” because of the nature of the lens, which indeed does clip onto the rim of the screen you’ll be using as both a viewfinder and a touchscreen. Then of course after each photo is taken, the image is wirelessly transmitted to your cloud, and all is well. How many years away from reality?

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I must remind you here again that this is a conceptual design, and is thusly not entirely built with the current state of technology in mind. Take a peek at the video below “What is being creative?” Starring we believe Kristian Larsen herself, taking this phone PAST the production stage and releasing it as a real product via a lovely two minute ad.

The screens are covered with Gorilla Glass, each of the screens is a flexible Super AMOLED (somehow both of these things are possible,) there’s steel mesh holding each screen to the next, LED colored lines run along several sides, and the rest is made of aluminum. Oh, and it’s an Android.

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The shape of this vehicle, Vardai says, is based on the aerodynamics of an airplane, a streamlined set of sides for a smooth ride all the time. Black and silver are strewn throughout (though you can only see the black and the lights above) and lights, although the designer doesn’t mention them in his outline, are taken straight out of the newest installment in the Tron series: Legacy. Behold!

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It means that this machine (though not all the details are worked out, obviously), take some of what otherwise seem to be crucial components out of the picture: all you need now is a monitor or screen of some sort and a way to attach it to the hard drive. From there, the harddrive could (with some modifications turning it into what’d be closer to what’s considered a computer) become a whole new all-in-one sort of machine.

Remember that this is a conceptual design and isn’t meant to be a complete idea yet. This is where great things are born, especially when the idea precedes the technology or the means of creating the project. Love it.

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Ports and ports and ports! I’ve never seen a camera with so many ports – and they’re basically all USB! This camera aims to take photos and plant them directly unto USB sticks which can then be given directly to a set of friends so that they might all have the photos in their original format – for sharing on the internet, for printing, for anything. Simple and lovely. Plus it looks like candy.

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That’s right, it’s so totally lovely. This watch changes color depending on the time of day (clear or black and inverted) and shows you the hours, minutes, seconds, days, and months, all on rings of tics that move according to the orbit they’ve got to take around your wrist. You know what that means? Six sets of tics flicking around your wrist all day long at different speeds. Splendid!

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This screen will be entirely touch-based as well, allowing you to crop and print portions of your screen using some sort of print/scan application. Choe aims for this computer to be a big time saver as it might be able to not only cut out the amount of devices you need sitting on your desk, but also the amount of time you need to move back and forth from different applications for each device. Sounds sweet?

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Yanko has another new watch that you can buy today called the Ever Increasing Watch. The watch was designed by the EleeNo group and it looks pretty cool. The watch reminds me of some sort of chart you might make in math class with dotted lines that move up a grid. The top blue line is for hours, the middle green line is for the tens of minutes, and the bottom red line is for single minutes.

Despite how complex the watch looks, it is actually very easy to read with the numbers printed right below the dotted lines for you. You can get the watch with a black or a silver band and face for $179.

The watch has a large metal face with 12 LED lights that indicate the hour on the small round face. The top line has nine LEDs and shows the minute increments in tens, and the bottom has five LEDs to show one-minute increments.

The watch has a fat black band and comes with a silver face and your choice of three LED colors including blue, red, and green. The stitching on the watchband matches the LED color. You can grab one up now for $159.

The player features a large controller wheel that wraps around the screen of the PMP. The PMP would be able to control the pitch, timing and position of the track precisely by using the pressure and touch sensitive wheel.

Features include the ability to scratch samples over a track that is playing and it allows the user to mix tracks on the fly. The PMP is designed to look like a DJ turntable at 1:8 scale.