Blow-up Mouse

Blow-up Mouse

The Jelly Click takes mouse portability to the extreme. All the electronic circuity lives on a small flexible board. The body itself is just soft plastic. Whenever you need a mouse, blow up the Jelly Click, attach the USB cable and you’re good to go. As a bonus, it’s a total floaty for you swimming challenged people.

Designer: Bongkun Shin, Heungkyo Seo, Jiwoong Hwang & Wooteik Lim

more information:http: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/01/30/blow-up-mouse/

Compose Music All High Tech Like

Have you ever caught yourself whistling a made up tune and thought to yourself, “hey this could be a hit song!” Those moments of inspiration are fleeting but with the Compose concept, you can compose anywhere.

The pen acts as a mic you sing into. When docked into the digital paper tablet, your vocal harmonies are automatically transcribed into a score. For the old schooler, you can write directly on the display. It also contains libraries for an entire orchestra so once your composition is finished, just sit back and enjoy.
Designer: Ouyang Xi, He Binbin, Zeng Li & Li Bo


more information: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/08/18/compose-music-all-high-tech-like/

Puffy Bookmark

The ABRACADABRA bookmark aims to make finding where you left off and opening to that page easier. I didn’t know it was an issue but now I hate my ordinary paper bookmark. The ABRACADABRA contains an air-filled chamber, half of which is flattened by the weight of a book. Squeezing the exposed side inflates the concealed side lift the page just enough for your finger to slip in.
And just for fun and giggles, old ABRACADABRAS can be arranged on a paper pot. Yea, a paper tree, a paper pot, and graphics that look like something else.

Designer: Jung-Hyun Lee, Won-Sik Chae & Rhea Jeong

more information: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/03/17/puffy-bookmark/

The Future of Books

With everything turning towards technology, we have adapted the out with the old, in with the new mentality. Designer Kyle Bean has created a design that illustrates the issues with “technology and the Internet, and the effect it is having on the way we source information”. We are becoming a society that is more virtual. We download music rather than purchase CD’s, we research on the net, rather than going to the library and reading books. According to Kyle, “Books also have personality – they have textures and smells which the internet can’t offer”. Kyle wanted to illustrate this issue by using a book turned into a laptop. The object is made from a book purchased at a discount bookstore for only £1.50, as well as a few electrical components to illuminate the screen.

The book/laptop, has a CD-Rom drive complete with CD, a keyboard that can be removed so as to access the battery, and a switch that turns off the screen light once the book is closed. The book when closed, looks just like a regular book until opened. The words, “The Future of Books” is inscribed on the spine. I think Kyle did a wonderful job expressing the changes the world is facing regarding technology.

 
more information: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/21/the-future-of-books/

High Tech Napkins

We saw several napkin idea concepts last year but this is the first to utilize e-ink and RF technology. The Napkin PC is designed for group collaborations. Each pen transmits your doodles to the base station which is a PC in disguise. That information gets processed and displayed on the napkin like e-ink paper. Cool idea but someone better make sure nobody decides to wipe their dirty lunch stains with one.
Designer: Avery Holleman

 
 

 
 
more information: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/01/04/high-tech-napkins/

Metamophing Computer Interfaces

Siafu is a PC designed to give people with vision loss or impairment a more intuitive computer experience. It lays flat like a tablet and allows the user to fully interact with it by way of touch. The surface utilizes a conceptual material called magneclay or magnetized liquid. This material has the ability to morph upward into any shape via a controlled electromagnetic field enabling the device to create a braille surface for reading and even pictures in 3D relief.

The technology behind Siafu – Magneclay, is an oil based synthetic agent that possesses limitless morphing capabilities. It has a loose molecular structure but can be infinitely rearranged when acted upon by electrical and magnetic charges. As long as the charges acting upon it remain stable, the magneclay will hold its structural rigidity, allowing it to be touched without deformation.

As for why the device is named after an aggressive African ant? Beats me.


Designer: Jonathan Lucas


more information: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/02/27/metamophing-computer-interfaces/

Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia

TED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense Department, who see One Laptop per Child as an investment in the region. (And you too can get involved.)

more information: http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/my_xo_for_all_oddessey_with_ol.html

SixthSense

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

more information: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Using Technology in Education

altec lansing mini

sound innovation
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name of design : altec lansing mini
design by : kimming yap + yulia saksen from singapore

MINI is the perfect companion for your MP3 player when you want to break away from headphones or to share your tunes with friends. Simply plug and play, and share your tunes anywhere, anytime with its perfect, distortion-free sound system. With its built-in rechargeable battery, the music keeps playing long into the night. And, when you are done, slip MINI back into your pocket or purse.

Robot teacher

Robot teacher smiles, scolds in classroom


But developers say it's not about to replace human instructors
 
 

TOKYO - Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.

Unlike more mechanical-looking robots like Honda Motor Co.'s Asimo, the robot teacher, called Saya, can express six basic emotions — surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, sadness — because its rubber skin is being pulled from the back with motors and wiring around the eyes and the mouth.

In a demonstration, the robot's mouth popped open, its eyes widened and eyebrows arched to appear surprised. Saya pulled back on its lips to make a smile, and said simple preprogrammed phrases such as "Thank you," while its lips moved, to express pleasure.

Microsoft MS Surface

Microsoft Surface is a revolutionary multi-touch computer that responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects, helping people interact with digital content in a simple and intuitive way. With a large, horizontal user interface, Surface offers a unique gathering place where multiple users can collaboratively and simultaneously interact with data and each other.

more infprmation:  http://www.microsoft.com/surface/pages/product/WhatIs.aspx

The Apple iPad

How many times have you heard (at least in your head) an SUV owner saying that they just don't get little Smart cars, Priuses and so on? "You can't haul anything in them." "They do so little!" "Sure, the mileage may be great, but I need room for four kids, not four grocery bags." "They're just not fun to drive."


And oftentimes the (stereotypical green-oriented) geek's response is, "But not everyone needs an SUV."

And not everyone needs a PC.

Think about it – the modern PC is a massively overpowered piece of kit for the average consumer. I don't mean the average geek, I mean the average consumer. Nearly everything we geeks love and adore about a general-purpose computer is a pain point for the average consumer.

 
 
more information : http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/192799.asp

Mobile Car Phone

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new laptop...~

Laptop (computer) in the form of a woman's bag..

Different ways, but the idea of one, it was the design of the laptop computer (laptop) in order to accommodate women and girls in particular and exclusive only to them, the idea

Centered in the manufacture of laptop computers in the form of a woman's bag ..

http://www.popgadget.net/2005/06/tulip_ego_lapto.php