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Futuristic Computer By Jakub Zahor

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:55:23 +0000

This concept computer-of-the-future by designer Jakub Záhoř allows the user to operate the device anywhere they can find a glass surface. The user simply attaches the central unit to any glass surface like a window or coffee table, switches on the power, and watches their system light up before their eyes. The display appears as an interactive hologram on the glass that the user merely has to touch to operate. It also makes for an easy, take-anywhere way to project photos and presentations or stream movies. Windex not included.

Designer: Jakub Zahor
Source: YankoDesign.com

Real Notebook By Kim Min Seok

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:42:18 +0000

The Real Notebook is a laptop concept that delves into the advantages of bendable AMOLED screens. It gives the notebook design a push in the direction of actually flipping through a book. You have to agree that we are always at looking to make technology devices more realistic and natural, this notebook is perfect synergy towards the efforts.

Designer: Kim Min Seok
Source: YankoDesign.com

EcoPad

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:08:32 +0000

A team of South Korean researchers have developed a piezoelectricity-based technology for charging a tablet as the user presses its touchscreen. The tablet, dubbed as Ecopad, truly justifies its name. The device well portrays a great vision of green computing. Thanks to the piezoelectric film embedded below the tablet’s touchscreen, the device will harvest power from the pressure an user deploys on the touchscreen.

It has grabbed a special judges’ award at the Fujitsu Design Award 2011 competition. The competition was based on the title “A Life with Future Computing.” Among 3,000 ground-breaking designs from across the world, judges of the competition appreciated the Ecopad, which was designed by three tech geeks namely, Yonggu Do, Jun-se Kim and Eun-ha Seo.

An user may press his/her tablet’s touchscreen more than 10,000 times a day. That means an enormous amount of power can be produced. Under the new technology, on each pressing, the piezoelectric film can reap a bit of power, which can be saved in the device’s battery. The power later runs the device. It’s a fantastic technology Ecopad presented at the Fujitsu Design Award 2011 competition.

The Ecopad tablet, needless to say, gets rid of the conventional AC adaptor. The nano piezoelectricity film integrated with the touchscreen is enough to produce the required power for the device. The technology will help users enjoy freedom from charging the battery once it is run out. You can produce power on your own as you use the device.

Source: GizmoWatch.com

Modular PC Concept

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:20:55 +0000

After kitchens, its time that our PCs get the modular trait as well. Juan Esteban Velez has designed one such product, which has been named “modBook“ PC concept. For bringing this creation to life, Juan joined hands with students of Industrial Design Juan Felipe Uribe, Juan Camilo Restrepo and Juan Pablo Castañeda of Pontificia Bolivariana University.

The facade is worth drooling over and comes wedged with a quality to shower three different experiences. The screen can be split into two tablets, measuring 7 inches each, while the base can be swapped into a handy entertainment device perfect for any dwelling. The two screens will individually act as a multimedia and business tool. When all the three parts are coupled they give birth to a specialized product suitable for 3D rendering, video, music edition and many other tasks.

PC concept ‘modBook’ will collide head-on with other products at the 2011 Fujitsu Award. It will endow the user with a power of mobility and entertainment, wedged in one. With so many amazing features, it is ready to take over the powerful PC, tablet and laptop market without any doubt. It has been given cool and attractive looks that will make the onlooker fall in love with the product instantly. The ultra stylish ‘modbook’ will take you on a dream ride with its modular nature.

Designers: Juan Felipe Uribe, Juan Camilo Restrepo, Juan Pablo Castañeda
Source: DesignBuzz.com

Plantbook Laptop Concept

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:02:22 +0000

The Plantbook or the ‘oxygenated notebook’, a concept designed by Seunggi Baek and Hyerim Kim, is a laptop whose technology is largely inspired by the bamboo plant that derives its nutrients when soaked in water. The design of Plantbook is amazing and unique. It comprises of a cylindrical structure with two rollout screens (for the keyboard and monitor). The green color of the notebook is a representation of its ‘green’ capabilities. There is no need for you to charge the notebook as it uses hydrogen generated by electrolysis of water as its energy source.

The Plantbook when rolled back into its cylindrical form gets placed inside a beaker full of water to soak it, thus generating hydrogen via the process of electrolysis and releasing oxygen. The energy required for electrolysis is provided by a solar heat plate that is affixed at the top of the device. Much like a plant, the Plantbook produces energy releases oxygen. Furthermore, the Plantbook has a strap or a hand ring affixed to the top that has a leaf-like shape with green LED; it indicates the extent to which the battery has been charged. It is incredible to see how much energy we can generate through natural means – without having to cut down trees, eat into our limited oil and coal reserves, etc. The Plantbook definitely seems to be a path-breaking concept.

Designers: Seunggi Baek, Hyerim Kim
Source: EcoFriend.com

Nanomagnetic Computers

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:54:44 +0000

Most of the magnetic chip-driven computers are known to be energy-efficient but their efficiency limits are defined by the laws of physics. In other words, conventional computers running on chips invariably end up consuming more energy than their theoretical needs, thanks to their tiny electrons that suck substantial energy while shuttling around circuits to process information.

A new research by engineer Brian Lambson of the Berkeley-based University of California has proved that nanomagnetic computers have the potential to consume only that much energy as is required to carry out theoretical computation, thereby, breaking the second law of thermodynamics. Although these are early days, such computers are likely to be used in deep seas and space, where energy conservation becomes paramount due to less availability of energy. The best aspect of these computers would be that they would never overheat unlike the case with conventional computers.

The nanomagnetic chips are made from refrigerator magnet-like material stacked in rectangular rows. Each rectangle has a side measuring 100 nanometers and bears magnetic poles. Information is stored in line with their pointers (one configuration 1, other 0). The tiny magnets are tightly coupled and hence ensure smooth magnetic field interaction. Precisely why the information transfer does not cause any physical changes to the chip. The absence of moving parts whatsoever makes the nanomagnetic chips super energy-efficient.

Although the results are yet not proven, Lambson’s experiments have successfully estimated the change in magnetic fields during computation and in turn calculated the energy required to drive the said change. To Lambson’s surprise, his results were almost the same as set by IBM physicist Rolf Landauer way back in 1961 who claimed that irrespective of the computer’s make-up and type, any physical change of movement necessarily accompanies a transfer of energy. In actual practice, most computers are known to suck a million times more energy than what’s set by the “Landauer limit”.

Nanomagnetic logic expert of the University of Notre Dame, Wolfgang Porod has observed that the Landauer limit is largely academic. But given the recent successful experiments with amazingly tiny devices, he believes, the use of magnets in making ultra efficient computers is the way to go. That’s a resounding thumbs up for Lambson’s research which is due to be published in Physical Review Letters.

Source: Gizmowatch.com

ROLL ME – Green Personal Computer By Omer Sagiv

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:30:59 +0000

Created using a combination of sophisticated green technologies is the innovative ROLL ME, a green personal computer meant for mobile use. It gives an intuitive new/old experience of writing as well as reading old-fashion style with the use of e-paper. The use of Nanotechnology concept makes it ergonomic and innovative. The flexible low-powered electronic paper permits the user to read in high light and roll the e-paper around the computer. SolarRoll is yet another highlight where the stretchy solar panel can be rolled into the computer’s shaft.

Designer: Omer Sagiv
Source: TUVIE.com

Specially Colored Nanomagnet Eggs Could Make Low-power Computer Memories

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:09:33 +0000

It may be a bit late for Easter but eggs have a valid reason to make news again. The scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed eggs that can be used as low-power computer memories in future. Actually these eggs are nanomagnets that have been given the shape of an egg. These are nickel-iron magnets created using electron-beam lithography. These egg-shaped nanomagnets have been developed as a part of NIST research to help developing magnetic data storage systems for future.

The making:
The researchers at NIST used electron-beam lithography ( the practice of scanning a beam of electrons in a patterned fashion also used for creating nanotechnology architectures) for a study and made thousands of ‘egg-liptical’ magnets. Well, these eggs aren’t really that easy to see and are definitely not there to play with, for these are 200 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in diameter.

What’s new?
General shape of each magnet can be described as an ellipse. The colour of the eggs too isn’t a matter of choice or chance, they represent intrinsic qualities hidden in these small eggs. Lighter colors indicate ’stronger frequency signals’. These eggs have been coloured using object-oriented micromagnetic framework (OOMMF). The details reveal that the egg shape makes the pattern of waves more complex.

What’s refreshing?
Why the egg shape? It isn’t a random selection of just any shape. Researchers found out that even the slightest of a change or distortion in shape of a magnet causes a drift in their magnetic properties. They found it by analyzing the magnets with a laser for the spin of electrons. The spin of electrons is what’s responsible for the magnetic orientation. Changes in spins leads to waves of different frequencies. In egg like magnets the wave patterns and their frequencies become more complex. You’d have observed a similar pattern after throwing a pebble into water. These changes are observed more at the ends of the magnets than its middle portion.

Applications:
The question is how far can this ‘intentional’ patterning of shape go. If the research results are to be believed, they might help in breaking the symmetry in frequency patterns commonly noticed in ellipse structures. This gives an opportunity to control the switching process which can be customized and be made more reliable. This study also explains the unpredictable behaviour of many nanomagnets. Whose shape might have been distorted somehow by lithography process. These little imperfections might affect the switching process. These results can also be useful in developing future RAMs that are actually based on interactions between electron spins and magnetized surfaces.

Source: GizmoWatch.com

Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:03:05 +0000

Bento is quite an exceptional and forward thinking concept by René Woo-Ram Lee. It’s quite a plausible scenario that most of use/own a tablet, a PC, external hard drives and a smartphone. Now combine the power of these to have fully customizable Bento Laptop! The Box accommodates all the gear to work as one whole unit or individually; as you see fit.

Designer: René Woo-Ram Lee
Source: YankoDesign.com

MacBook 2020 By Tommaso Gecchelin

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:53:25 +0000

Put aside your critical ego for a moment and enjoy designer Tommaso Gecchelin’s vision of an Apple MacBook circa 2020. Keyboards, mice and 2-dimensional screens are passe. Hit the jump for the future.

Envisage a computer nearly paper thin, able to shape shift from metal to plastic. Thanks to molecular manufacturing, a micro-lattice nano material enables you to shrink the dimensions to fit into your pocket. Nano technology miniaturizes familiar technologies into thin sheets of composites, each serving a separate function. One layer is photo voltaic for infinite battery life. One layer projects ultrasound waves for tactile feedback. Another layer works like a pelican cam to capture the real world in 3D while a separate layer works like a holographic emitter. And of course, everything is wireless. No ports, no cables. I only have one question.

Designer: Tommaso Gecchelin
Source: YankoDesign.com