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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

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

Crowd Notebook Concept By Philipp Schaake

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:36:55 +0000

Notebooks and tablets have become a hot favorite amongst the tech-savvy population. In the crowded world of such gadgets, Philipp Schaake, from Germany, has designed a concept notebook christened Crowd. The computing device can act both as a notebook and a tablet.

The novel idea will ensure a unique interaction between users and their PCs. Just like gadgets in a sci-fi movie, which have sleek facades and a crisp displays, Crowd will make you experience the same activities in a perceptive and rhythmical way. Expecting an important email, but don’t feel like switching on your laptop? With Crowd, connect with online activities of your choice and check important information without even opening the piece of equipment.

Crowd is like an interactive playground, which will make the usage experience all the more enjoyable. It presents an overview of all the online activities in a comprehensible and graphical manner for easy understanding. Different sized avatars are displayed on the screen, denoting website history and friends who are presently online. Each size refers to the frequency at which you interact with a person and the number of times you visit a website.

The two screens are held together by a hinge, which endows the user with a flexibility to pull them apart. Now, either exploit it like a regular laptop or use each screen independently. Chat, mail or surf the net with Crowd, and if someone asks you for an extra laptop, simply snap it apart without much thinking.

Designer: Philipp Schaake
Source: DesignBuzz.com

Keyless Lifebook

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:58:10 +0000

The Fujitsu Design Awards allow people to let loose with their imaginations and come up with some of the most amazing concepts that none of us would ever have thought of before. The Keyless Lifebook concept by Laura Lahti is one such novelty. It takes the idea of customizable typing and computing to the next level.

The beauty of this concept lies in its simplicity. It is essentially a touch-based keyboard (with no actual keys), which is completely customizable in whatever way you see fit. So, you can choose exactly which keys you want on your keyboard, and even where you want them placed. You can alter everything from the layout, to the color, to even the orientation! In addition, there are provisions to make using an optical pen easier for drawing, and a full optical mouse trackpad. Did we mention it could also work to type in an array of different languages?

Source: DesignBuzz.com

Anderson Computer

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:16:17 +0000

One of the biggest advantages of a laptop is its portability feature. Using this as its premise, here is a very sleek version of how we should be really using a digital notebook. Ironic that it’s a leaf out of the journal kind, the Anderson’s main USP is the practical way of handling the book. Dual hinge system makes it possible to use the notebook in portrait and landscape mode.

Designers: Ma Yiwei, Tao Ying
Source: Yankodesign.com

ARM Tablet By Sebastien Maleville

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:12:22 +0000

Industrial designer Sebastien Maleville’s proposed concept laptop design for Lenovo is definitely amazing. The futuristic concept laptop is christened the ARM tablet and boasts of features like a touch screen and a removable keyboard. The laptop flaunts a chrome finish body and is definitely a gadget of the future. Sleek, stylish and extremely useful, this new hi-tech concept laptop promises to be a favorite with gadget freaks. Powered by a polymer battery, the keyboard can be separated from the touch screen by the click of a button.

Designer: Sebastien Maleville
Source: DesignLaunches.com

Fujitsu Lifebook

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:40:16 +0000

German designers Patrick Decker and Florian Langer, of Formboten, have won one of the judge’s special awards in the recent competition ‘A Life with Future Computing’. A collaboration between designboom, Fujitsu and Design Association Japan, the international industrial design competition aimed to find next-generation computing products for future lifestyles.

The Lifebook Frame Series by Decker and Langer was one of seven designs to receive the judge’s special award, chosen from over 3000 entries. It features an integrated device that can be used as a number pad or touch pad and can be detached and used as a smartphone. The technical components such as the battery and memory are exchangeable for easy maintenance. The transparent duralumin frame houses the three key units; the 3:1 wide screen touch monitor, the keyboard and hardware, and the LifeGear mobile device.

Designer: Patrick Decker, Florian Langer
Source: psfk.com