Green Laptop concept

Now a days, the world,the government,the green organisation trying to promote green living. when talk about green living, it more about the use of renewable energy to promote long term as well as sustainable living condition. Sad to mentioned  that as much as reaching the community in promoting green living, putting it into practice is considered a mammoth task, as much as we are aware that we are facing depletion of fossil energy source by the minute, yet we are still remained in an ignorant state by taking advantage of what we have to today.

But there are still a hand full of people are seriously preparing them self for the worse, and there also a hand full of creative thinker and creator trying to promote green living by taking their design into the next level, here are one example. 

Ever thought of recharging your precious laptop by dipping it into a jug of water? the design is so unique, not to mention the creative concept, with the availability of AMOLED material that is used to design our display unit of our smartphone,laptop,smart book, tablet, etc. The concept of transparent screen has also been brought into the prototyping stage, it is no surprise that the concept of green laptop will be a reality. 

if you can see the material being used here looks like a super AMOLED type material, being transparent in every aspect of the design concept from the display unit right down to the keyboard of the laptop itself.  

look at the thickness of the laptop, it's thin enough so extra quadruple handling is needed. 

The only solid material is that one that holds both glass material of the laptop, that is the display portion and the keyboard portion and We all know that water and computer hardware aren't exactly the friendliest of combinations, but the Plantbook definitely defies all logic in that regard. It may sound completely ridiculous, but the designers seem to have it all figured out:

“The system uses an external water tank, hence the Plantbook continuously absorbs water when soaking it in water and generates electrolysis using power stored in a solar heat plate installed on the top. In this process, it is operated using hydrogen as energy source and discharges oxygen. If you put it into a water bottle while you don’t use the laptop, it automatically charges a battery and discharges oxygen. A leaf-shaped strap hanging on the top is made with silicon. It plays a role of a hand ring and a green LED indicates when the battery is charged. Using this LED, users can check how much spare capacity the batter has.”

This is how to recharge your laptop, I wonder what happen it malfunction while you are recharging your laptop. I am sure you will see a caution note in your user manual book that say

Caution: " Please dip in with extra care" or 

Caution: " Please do not drown your laptop, so please dip with extra care"

Source: tom's guide

Creative Computer geeks does know their taste for furniture...

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Now a days there are so many furniture design available in the market, some designed for ergonomic use, some for the rich and famous, some designed just for the purpose of being a furniture, yet to some extend there furniture that are designed just for the purpose of admiring the complexity of the design itself, let just say it's only for the sake of "Just see, no sitting"...

But have you ever wonder that even the computer geeks has a really good taste with furniture, lets see some of their unique designs.

Control Alternate Delete Pillow Set

Control, Alternate, Delete pillow set, this would make my living room a little computercozzy 

F1 & F2 Lampshade

This ceiling lamp should come with bright and deem button, like F1 to reduce brightness and F2 to increase brightness. Then it would make the ceiling lamp complete..

ASCII Curtains

This design reflect a person creativity, from a far it looks just like a tree branch during winter but as you look closer, it is actually a combinations of  ASCII codes..

Binary Door mat

 Control, Alternate, Delete Cup set

Enter Button Door Bell

Keyboard Command Posters

 Instead of posters, I guess it will look great if these were wall papers, or floor tiles, if fitted in your study room, you will never forget your MAC OS short cut command anymore..

Numeric Keypad Chair

Mouse Pointer Coffee Table

Tetris Ice Cube Mold 

Wolfgang Keyboard Chair

Binary Furniture

To me this is more of a computer chip or a mother board furniture set, I wouldn't want this in my living room especially when there are kids around, and imagine how costly it would be if one of the component is missing, then I would consider this malfunction. never the less its a cool and creative design overall

Keyboard Lamp

Keyboard Lounge Chair

VW Future concept - Fun to know about VW

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in my earliest post, well the time when I first actively involve in blogging, one of my post is related to the history of VW (Volkswagen). I was fun writing and blogging about it.

As we travel patiently into the future a lot has change, from the way we live, the way we eat, the way we commute and the way we travel. so as the technology applied in our car or automobile. 

As I have mentioned before, Volkswagen has come a long way to reach to its current prestigious position. So as we pave our way inside the 21st century let's have a quick look what concept does VW has at the back of their creative mind..

Hover Car, an environmentally-friendly two-seater city car which hovers just above the ground, Volkswagen is presenting the study of a zero-emissions vehicle that could in future travel along electromagnetic road networks. 

Volkswagen Aqua Hovercraft

Volkswagen Nils Concept

The NILS seats just one, but its modest passenger load is matched by an equally small footprint, and a curb weight of under 1,000lbs. The all-electric concept is designed for city use, and its lightweight aluminum frame and 34 horsepower electric motor give it a 40-mile driving range on a single charge. 

Volkswagen Rescue Rover

Volkswagen Rescue Rover concept is a unique design especially build for the beach rescuers. Inspired by 1940s Volkswagen Type 166, this concept vehicle is designed by the famous auto designer Sebastian Toddenroth. This vehicle has a hydrodynamic and an omni-directional form factor which enables it to balance itself in the middle of the sea waves. This vehicle uses mecanum wheels which adds extravagant features to its offerings, as it enables the vehicle to be driven in any direction. It is powered by a powerful electric engine assisted by a turbine rim that eliminates the heat factor. Multi-armed wheels facilitate the vulcanized roll as well as provide stability to the model. The interiors of the vehicle are designed for providing superior driving experience. It is a complete car which can be a priority choice for riders in future.

Volkswagen CitiZen

The Volkswagen CitiZen envisions the future of motoring by Volkswagen. Embodying a futuristic design and aerodynamic form, the Volkswagen CitiZen is controlled through a joystick and this joystick will be a multipurpose key for the user. Powered by a hybrid propulsion system consisting of hydrogen fuel cells, electric motors and batteries, this futuristic compact concept from Volkswagen will seat two people and feature small 180 degree rotation enabled wheels for easier and enhanced maneuverability.

Volkswagen Van Concept

Weird Wrist Watch Design Concept

Over the years, wrist watch has become the being mobile time keeper, a necessity for everyone who need to keep track on their time, the time to arrive, the time to leave, the time to pick up, the time to complete, the time to perform etc..

As we arrive into the 20th Century or at present the 21st century, to owned a wrist watch has transformed from the task of telling you what time it is, to a whole new level. Wrist watch now a day not only tells you what tis the time now, wrist watch has become more of a fashion and life style requirement to a level of multitasking. Wrist watch now can perform as altimeter, thermometer, reads your heart rate, as well as entertainment basically as long as we have of the creative thinker and the technology wrist watch can be transform and functioned almost everything. you'll never know your next visit to the time store you'll be surprise you wrist watch can function as a projector or even a high definition camera..

As I mentioned before a concept design is a design the may or may not reach into the production line, but if these concept has reaches the prototype stage then, there a chance that the concept design will reach the production line. 

Lets see some of the weirdest concept wrist watch ever reach the drawing board. 

This design was inspired by Nuno Teixeira, a Portugal based industrial designer Nuno Teixeira has developed a watch spectacularly built to enhance the looks and designs of wrist watches to the next era, called Equinox. If price doesn’t matter for you then this would be the best ever watch you could have. It represents the exact time when the sun is positioned directly over the equator. Its spherical displays give it a very elegant look.

This concept is called the “Spiral watch”, designed by Ignacio from Spain. The watch has a fun face design where you can see a thread like spiral from outer to the inner side of the watch. According to the designer, this Spiral watch could be read by following the numbers on the spiral and the white marking on within the black spiral. The solid white mark tells your the hours, while the double fine mark tells you the minutes.

This unique design was submitted by Laszlo from Hungary, this concept also has a unique case design with a sliding effect.With a smoked black lens on an IP black coated case, the display shows the time simply using colored dots. Twelve green dots indicate hours, Five yellow dots indicate minutes 10-50 and nine red dots indicate minutes 1-9. Simple and cool.

This wrist watch was design by  Nicolas Meiresonne. The Torus concept watch uses color and a touchscreen to tell the approximate time. This bracelet style watch was designed to give the user a perception of time and some sort of experience. Very similar to the sun, you will not get the actual time just approximate time of day. The colors on the watch rotate to tell what time of day it is. For example blue/green represents morning, yellow/orange the afternoon, red/purple for evening and nighttime.

Not exactly sure how, but tapping the touchscreen will allow users to set alarms.  Apparently by double tapping a color a timer will be set. Though there is not much of a use for such a watch in today’s world, we certainly find this device interesting to say the least. This watch would definitely be a site to see in real life if it ever makes it to market.

This concept was design by F. Bertrand, Main concept behind this future writs watch is to provide user a user friend interface with touch screen and apps similar to smart phones. Having a 3G support  and bluetooth support  will make us to use this as a smart phone.

With all this great features the this watch also keeps some basic functions of a watch, like keeping you updated with the current time.  The innovative watch concept would keep the application you use most at easy access, and would even change the icons location on the strap according to the position of your wrist.

It was created by designer Henrik Amberla and named The Milky Way. From the words of author “the shape reflects on the duality and unity of the sleep/wake cycle as well as illustrates a turning motion that triggers the snooze function. Another turning motion is applied to setting the time and the alarm.

Touch screen devices are now a normal part of our computing environment, but now a new player seeks to add a bit more flair to what has until now been a relatively conservative design approach by putting the power of Android on your wrist.

The Coil Watch is a concept device developed by Wimm Labs that would combine the company's various Android applications with a new form factor geared more toward style and fashion than utilitarian geek sensibilities. In addition to the Coil Watch the company hopes to offer a wide array of similarly stylized Android devices that will play to the tastes of the fashion conscious. You can see Wimm's promotion video for their very real software platform in the video below.

TX54, the runner-up in the event, is a concept by three Americans designers: Napoleon Merana, Steffen Schubert and David Takacs. The nail watch is designed to be hooked to our thumbnail. The user should be able to view the time in the dark just by pressing the tip of the thumbnail. There's also the ability to switch between colors available. It is also disposable. One hopes it's waterproof as well, just in case you forget to take it off while you are in the shower.

Earlier we have seen a wrist watch which was design and run on Android OS, this time I have found another design concept that runs with IOS from Apple. Since this concept has a face time feature mean this watch is definitely run on iOS 6 and beyond.

I wonder how are we coning to type with the size of screen is so small.

This is similar to the previous image which is an LED concept watch, and its call Cobra LED.

FEMTO Photography

Dear Readers,

I saw a video about the latest creation in the world of imaging, be it a computer generated imaging or photography imaging. This type of latest technology invented and created by a group of innovators from MIT has awaken us that there is now a way that allow us to really watched the travelling wave of lights.

When I watch this short movie from youtube, I was amazed and in Awe just as the audience who attended Mr Ramesh Raskar introduction to their invention. 

Before you watch this video I quoted Mr Ramesh speech closing introduction speech to A Trillion Frames per Second Imaging also known as FEMTO Photography.

"Hope is that the DIY, the Creatives and the Research Community, will show us that we should stop obsessing about the Megapixels in cameras and start focusing on the next dimension in imaging. Its about time..." ~ Ramesh Raskar

For sure this will not come cheap for the mass users in camera, but this type of photo imaging will surely benefit the medical and scientific imaging, or even for security purposes.

Hope you enjoy this technology introduction by Mr. Ramesh Raskar from MIT.

Smartphone can now be bend...

Dear Readers,

If in the past electronic gadget we designed to be smaller some even falls into the category of minute technology meaning the use of nano technology has allow us to have all the smallest tech gadget ever reach the household.

Now, with the latest design in display technology, TV in the old days were as big as a box, phone were as thick as a pencil case, now it is moving towards a design beyond our imagination. TV and phones or even laptop is getting thinner and smaller. who knows in the future we might owned a few pieces of TV, no longer it is called few units TV.

Let us cut the chase, let's have a look at the future of smartphone a bendable smartphone.

Nokia

Nokia Morph

Nokia Kinetics

NOKIA 888 Series

Philip Fluid

Samsung Flexible

Samsung Skin

iPhone Flexible

Is it possible for APPLE to venture into new design concept. I guess some day they might be going for iPhone screen that has the capability to bend. Well in order to maintain and remain at the fore front, they should be looking into the idea of thinner iPhone concept. 

It does not have to be a screen that is bendable, the design might be like the one below.