Gadgets
Beautiful And Original Product Designs that You’ll be Amazed
On 23, Mar 2010 | 470 Comments | In Blog, Gadgets | By grapikom
An overview of some beautiful and original product designs which will hopefully make the cut and will be available in the next years.
Bracelet Watch
The idea for this watch is classic plastic bracelet, with incorporated lines inside the watch that show the current time. Those three lines are rotating around the watch and show the time, while the second line is going around all the time. It is a simple concept, atractive and eye-catching. Adjusting the clock is easy as the watch is the touchscreen. All you have to do is to touche the line, click the adjust icon and slide current time line to correct time. Design by Djordje Zivanovic.
Made in China
This product targets the entire 1.3 billion Chinese population. Each aspect of the hardware derives from an oriental inspiration which improves the PC experience for the targeted market. The hardware features a “No CPU, No Hard drive, No Graphics Card and No Sound Card” concept. These PC components are stored in a Service Provider of the new infrastructure.
Thus, subscribing to a plan of the Service Provider will allow the use of these components. The data from the components is then wirelessly transmitted to the user’s hardware. Thus, all PCs are administered by the Service Provider. MADE stands for Massively Administered Digital Entities.
MARRO computer system
This computer system analyzes, organizes, and customizes daily media activities. It is comprised of a stationary central unit and a separate mobile satellite unit. The central unit contains components such as the media card, CPU, drives and network card. The satellite unit houses the built-in Life OS, CPU, and flash memory.
Compared to the typical OS, which are limited to the resources and hardware of their physical location, the Life OS operates digital files and electronic devices that we use day to day. The MARRO ring records users’ daily media activities within the life system, constantly learning life patterns and making suggested improvements.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an external touch screen that works as a keyboard, macbook cover and a photo/movie stand?
This concept is supposed to be “integrated device for all” that is easy to use. The “DDM” is normally used as a typical LCD display for a powerful desktop CPU yet can be detached from the main body. In this detached form, the DDM acts much like the desktop PC yet supports portability. In this way, multiple DDM’s can be taken away from the main CPU and used separately. When placed back in the CPU cradle, each unit automatically syncs the its data with the local machine’s database offering one-step, seemless back-up and shareability.
“Concrete Art” is a beautiful way to enhance any room with pretty much any design you can think of. Contrasting the cold austerity of concrete, these floral designs are a great way to enhance any room. This design concept allows for the application of any pattern to the surface, either when pouring or afterwards when the concrete has set.
The “Action Runner” includes standard 3″ x 5″ sheet (when ripped), and keeps you focused on Action Steps with the elegance of the silky and sexy covers and blended paper. This ultra matte finish is spiced up with an ultra glossy UV varnish.
The ‘Slice’ concept is an organically inspired computing system which envisions a new approach to accessing, organizing and interacting with information and data stored on the PC. Current file management systems force users to store and manage files in a hierarchy of folders. The files are buried deep within folders providing no visual indication of where files are located, further adding to the confusion.
Slice brings the information out of the computer putting it into the users hand. By physically interacting with the slice, users can organize and place files accordingly. Each of the slices visually represent different folders seen in current operating software such as My Documents, My Music, My Videos, etc. The visual and touch based experience associated with slice provides the user with a tangible connection to their information stored on the computer reassuring the safety and placement of their files.
In times wenn all-rounder-phones dominate the market, more subtle, intuitive and minimalistic designs provide a sound alternative. This is just a cell phone to provide communication. No mp3, no video or camera etc. Designed by Tamer Koseli.
A concept and a modern interpretation of a rocking chair. The near circular form seen from the side is what makes the design unique. It allows for the rocking motion without being an attachment, but instead flowing into the rest of the chair. The upper part features a light source, which can be used as a reading light.
Airtrav is an electronic boarding pass concept. The touch screen interface allows for users to access airport information. Travelers can know anything and everything about their flight, dual headphones are available for multiple users and the deaf or hearing impaired can stay alert to important changes. The system has a stackable charging system (charged by an alternative power source).
This is a design we’ve all been waiting for a long time now. The Easy PB&J Jar is a jar with two lids that allows you to access all of your peanut butter easily without having to resort to breaking open the jar. As you near the end on one side, simply flip the jar over to get the rest. The straight and smooth internal walls also ensure that no peanut butter is ever left behind a nook or cranny like existing jars.
A carry-on luggage to articulate the lost romance of air travel. The design also pulls from the golden age of ocean liners: the black lacquered finish will become beautifully scraped and chipped as the suitcase travels with you, revealing the bamboo plywood beneath. The patina will develop with each trip you take. Designed by Joey Roth.
In Nokia 888 form follows you: it is a light personal mobile communication device. You can change its form according to your needs during the day. You don’t have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in any form. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip.
It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomic: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. Communication takes place via electronic motions that 888 has. E.g. you can send a heart shape to your girlfriend, so her telephone turns into an icon of heart.
Zeed+ is a computer which maximizes the mobility of its hardware components. All the hardware, such as the video card, sound card, CPU and network card are no longer located inside the box. Instead, each of the stem-shaped devices are well packaged standard units that sit on the vase base.
Zeed+ has the meaning of when you need something, you seed something. Each stem, or “zeed”, can be easily upgraded or changed, since they are located outside of the vase base. This also offers the benefit of trading or recylcing old “zeeds” to different market segments. Under the “zeed++” project, the older, but still usable zeeds, can be collected and reused in other Zeed+ computers for special groups, charities, education.
The overall design concept of the form is inspired by “Ikebana”, the Japanese traditional art of formal flower arrangement with special regard shown to balance, harmony, and form.
Slick, compact, beautiful and elegant watch design by Julien Soret.
Ryan Han has developed a concept with an interesting conceptual feature. The standard finger clicks, swipes and flicks are all incorporated, but the most interesting features involve utilizing shaking and pouring motions.
For those of us cursed with limited space, this is the answer. It’s a combination printer and table that blends in well with small offices as furniture. The faux drawers are actually paper loading trays and the slit is where your prints come out. Now nobody will scold you for setting your drink on top of the printer. Designer: Lukas Koh.
A next-generation phone concept, Onyx. Enabled through Synaptics clear, capacitive sensing technology, Onyx illustrates the future of mobile communications by combining an intelligent and adaptive user interface with sleek industrial design and next-generation user interaction design. The Onyx concept does not base its experience on treating applications as separate windows or entities that work in isolation. Rather, the Onyx concept seamlessly integrates functions into activity based experiences.
Moody is not only a simple washbasin, but also an aquarium for goldfish, a Zen garden or a simple pebble river bed or whatever you would like it to be. It is completely watertight with a sand bed for fish, and provides the necessary lighting for maintaining your fish in healthy conditions. Price: $4,700.00.
Designer Pavel Balykin believes that retro timepiece is on schedule for a comeback. It’s fittingly called the Sand+Time Watch and has the distinct feature of a digital hour glass screen saver mode. It’s a “screen saver” mode, because this particular feature does not actually count time for you.
If you want to know the real time, click a button and a more modern interpretation of time, we like to call “numbers”, will appear. Add a motion sensor, like the one used in Apple’s iPhone, and this screen saver mode might get that extra little cool factor to push it into production.
Reconditioned phone based on a vintage Bundespost design. It is a beautiful and original product design. Which is why it is in this overview. Price: £ 215.00.
The Circle sofa unit is made up of four parts, two of which make up a semicircle; all of which together create a round sculpture. The outline and contour looks highly sculptural and vigorous – and it is left open how one arranges these sofas in a room. Due to the “segmentation” of the circle, the sofas facilitate a great diversity of options and multifunctional solutions as well as interesting sculptural forms and lines. Designed by UN Studio, Amsterdam (Ben van Berkel).
The Bulbdial Clock has no hands — just one pole in the center of the clock, and three light sources of varying heights which revolve around the pole casting shadows. In the model illustrated above, the light sources are each attached to a ring which rotates around the pole. The innermost ring rotates once per minute, casting a “second hand” shadow. The middle ring rotates once per hour, and casts the “minute hand” shadow. And the outer ring rotates once every 12 hours, casting the “little hand” shadow.
Models available for notebook computers and desktop keyboards. Molded exactly to fit your keyboard like a glove. Quick to remove and reapply as often as you wish.
The Barbapapa transform themselves at will since 30 years. Marie Leblon, very inspired by their universe imagined and created all a series of objects, such these blackboard. Isn’t it just perfect for brainstorming sessions? Price: £19.86.
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The Hottest Gadgets You Wish to Have for 2010
On 30, Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | In Blog, Gadgets | By grapikom
There’s nothing better than a hot new gadget, and 2009 had plenty of them. A plethora of smartphones, laptops, netbooks and software have given technology fans enough to keep them satisfied over the past year. With new features and services released every month, it’s becoming harder and harder to keep up with the industry’s innovation.
The rise of the applications market, new smartphones, touch screens and more powerful processors have ensured our day-to-day interactions with technology is becoming faster, easier and simply more entertaining.
But tech companies are continuing to innovate, with more goods on the way over the next 12 months. Here are the top 10 gadgets of 2009, and another 10 of the hottest gadgets to look forward to in 2010.
The top must-have gadgets of 2009:
iPhone 3GS
While the iPhone 3G first debuted in Australia to a massive reception in June 2008, this year’s release of the updated 3GS model was even bigger.
The gadget had benefited from two years of strong reviews and the sustained growth of its App Store as more developers, even some Australian, got in on the action. But many users resisted, hoping Optus and Telstra would reduce their prices and offer higher-capacity download packs.
Consumers’ prayers were answered when VHA offered the iPhone 3GS on a number of plans, reducing the price of the hit device. Optus and Telstra soon followed by price reductions of their own, and the release was a hit with the device selling out even in the pre-order stage.
Apple hasn’t released detailed figures for Australia, but analysts suspect there are several hundred thousand iPhone users in the country. So why the hype?
The iPhone 3GS is the most powerful smartphone on the market. It boasts the typical features of a touchscreen, iPod media player functions, Wi-Fi, 3G capability, “push” email functions, calendar and contact integration with Exchange servers and a three megapixel camera.
Additionally, the new OS 3.0 software also released this year gives the phone a faster speed, with multimedia messaging, tethering, longer battery life and voice dialling support. Higher graphics functions have enabled developers to create high-end applications, while in-application commerce has given these creators entirely new revenue streams.
And with the huge App Store providing over 100,000 apps from games to useful everyday utilities, the iPhone craze isn’t about to die any time soon.
Kindle
Australia is beginning to catch up to the e-reader craze, which has been ongoing in the US for some time. The decision by online retail giant to release the Kindle internationally has been touted by analysts as a move that could spark Australians’ interest.
The device, which costs $US259, allows users to read books, newspapers and magazines tailored for the gadget. The Kindle connects to a 3G network in order to access Amazon’s library of over 280,000 books, with most around the $US10 range.
The best part – no subscription or data plans are needed to take advantage of the gadget’s wireless connectivity. While the Kindle is facing competition from the Barnes & Noble Nook, along with a variety of other e-readers, analysts say the Kindle remains the clear market leader.
TomTom Car Kit
TomTom’s decision to announce the creation of an iPhone App was met with applause at the World Wide Developer’s Conference in June, but its accompanying Car Kit has been the most anticipated GPS device of the year.
The device, which works in conjunction with the app, allows users to plug their iPhone into a dock mounted on a car’s windshield or dashboard.
Once plugged in, the GPS signal is amplified through the kit’s own microchip, while directions are played through the car’s own stereo system.
Users can play their iPhone’s music through the stereo system as well, while the dock automatically charges the gadget. The Car Kit even twists horizontally and vertically, allowing users to view the app’s directions in portrait or landscape mode.
It’s on the slightly expensive side – the kit and the app itself will set you back about $260 – but the quality of the device itself is as good as any standalone GPS unit.
Windows 7
Microsoft’s release of Windows Vista was attacked by analysts as premature, but there has been nothing but praise for the company’s newest operating system.
The interface looks similar to Windows Vista, but there are a number of subtle changes which only improve the software’s usability. Gadgets and widgets can now be placed anywhere on the dashboard, with no programs located in the quick-launch bar – instead, they are “pinned” to the taskbar.
Networking has changed, allowing users with multiple PCs on a network to share files and stream media content with Windows Media Player 12.
Thumbnail previews give users the option to interact with programs without actually opening them, while a new library feature allows users to create folders of content containing files strewn across the computer in different locations.
Compatibility issues have also been addresses with the addition of “XP Mode”, which allows a programs not supported by Windows 7 to be opened via a virtualised desktop system.
Best of all – it’s much, much faster.
Droid
Handset manufacturers have struggled to keep up with the iPhone’s power in the market, but Motorola has come close with its Droid smartphone.
The device, powered by the Google Android mobile operating system, is a rectangular handset featuring a touchscreen that nearly fills the device to its edges, a QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a button for the five-megapixel camera.
The Android software also features an onscreen keyboard, with Google’s marketplace now providing a number of apps to download, similar to the Apple App Store. The OS also features Facebook integration, with a number of sync adaptors soon to be released allowing more third parties to develop contact and calendar integration.
Its sleek design, along with a variety of innovative features, makes this gadget one of the most advanced smartphones on the market. No Australian release date has been announced, but some analysts suggest a 2010 release may be in the pipeline.
Girard-Perregaux Opera Three
Every tech-head and gadget-freak needs a watch, no matter how good the clock on their smartphone might be. This collector’s item features a mechanical manual wind movement feature, an hour striker with the ability to play two different melodies and a leather band.
Crafted in platinum, the watch also features a power reserve to indicate how much force is left in the mechanical spring mechanism and a sub-second counter.
Before you get too excited, there is one thing – the company has told SmartCompany the watch carries a recommended retail prices of $934,840.
Alienware Curved Monitor
No desktop computer is complete with an impressive LCD monitor. Thanks to Dell, tech-heads now have the ability to deck their kit out with one of the most technologically advanced, and largest, screens available.
The curved monitor boasts a massive 2880×900 resolution with a 48-inch diagonal, mimics peripheral vision and has an astounding .02-millisecond response time.
The LED illuminated screen uses rear-projection to obtain such a wide display. And while the monitor actually works by stitching together a number of different displays, the integration is seamless.
The screen is designed for gaming, but there’s no doubt a number of tech-savvy entrepreneurs wouldn’t mind having this $US6,000 toy to spruce up their office.
MacBook Pro
Apple’s MacBooks have been at the top of their market ever since their introduction in the late 1990s, and the new 17-inch model is no exception.
Its large screen size aside, the case itself is just as thin as the company’s other models. The device features the capability for a 256GB solid state drive, a 500GB drive, a maximum eight hour battery life, 8GB of RAM, three USB ports, faster processor options and the ability to choose a different type of screen surface.
The 17-inch model is at the top end of the market, and not designed for the mainstream – but this device caters for much more than the everyday user needs. This model will power high-end video editing and playback capabilities with its NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chipset, and is essentially a desktop in a laptop’s body.
Its price of $3,229 may deter some buyers, but the computer’s power can be matched by few rivals.
Nickon S1000PJ
Virtually all handsets come with mobile cameras in today’s market, but it’s widely accepted a stand-alone device will generally deliver a better result than a lens used within a phone’s framework.
The Nikon Coolpix S1000PJ is one of the hottest of its kind. The camera itself delivers 12.1-megapixel quality images, with a 2.7-inch viewing monitor, while the Nikon image processing technology renders these images within the camera itself.
It also comes in a silver or black casing, along with a 5x zoom lens. A new type of automode allows the camera to automatically choose the best setting based on the contents of a photograph, while five extra functions reduce blur and the effect of shaking.
But the camera’s draw card is its projection technology. The S1000PJ gives customers the ability to instantly share photos and videos by including a one-touch projection technology. Users simply point the camera towards a flat surface, and photos and images can then be shown on a screen up to 40 inches long – a feature sure to impress tech-heads.
An Australian tech company is even on the forefront of this technology. Digislide, which was recently floated on the ASX, has even struck a deal with two mobile manufacturers to include it in future devices.
Dyson Air Multiplier
Most of these gadgets have a thousand tricks and features, but the Dyson Air Multiplier’s concept is simple – it’s a bladeless fan.
Purely designed for showing off, this circular gadget rests on a cylinder and delivers an uninterrupted flow of air. The device works similar to a vacuum, routing the air up the bottom canister and through the circular barrel on top.
The result is a fan which allows curious onlookers to fit their entire hand through the device without hurting themselves.
The device costs $US300 for the 10-inch model and $330 for the 12-inch, and while the massive noise may make some gadget fans hesitant, there’s no doubt this unique device would make a great addition to any office.
