USB Memory Stick Flashes Its Memory Status with Colored Light

Drawing inspiration from Japanese Soma-Toh or a revolving lantern, which displays a colored silhouette, designer Mac Funamizu has devised a transparent USB memory stick that illuminates to indicate the data saved, or space available for that matter, within. Synced with the icon on your desktop, the flashy pen drive distinguishes data with different colors, such as pink for images, blue for documents and green for movies. The memory stick, when translucent, indicates the availability of storage space within, while on the other hand, the glass flashing with light signifies unavailability of data space, so you could scan it to fill or remove data without going through its memory status on your system.

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Cleankeys Touch-Sensitive Keyboard

While we use technologically advanced systems, we remain on the back foot on the hygiene front, making us vulnerable to various infections. Providing a solution, Cleankeys has come up with an ergonomic keyboard that featuring one-of-its-kind touch sensitive keys not only improves your work efficiency but also your health, while avoiding unnecessary keystrokes. Unlike the traditional keyboards, the new keyboard lets the user remove bacteria up to 99 percent for clean and hygienic typing. Priced at $400, the touch-sensitive keyboard also comes in a glass version for an added $50.

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Infinite Book by Ewald Neuhofer

What is the infinite-book and where does it come from?

The infinite-book is transforming paper into digital media combining qualities of paper and current technologies. The basic idea is to think about the interaction with media and to use strategies people are familiar with (reading, folding, ripping pages etc. We are consuming a mix of books, daily news, online-newspapers, weblogs, forums refreshed every minute. The product is the missing link between those digital and analogues worlds.

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Samsung Scroll for anywhere connection by Anthony Sanchez

Anthony Sanchez wants you do be connected with loved ones even on the go. He has a simple plan for this…his Samsung Scroll device. This compact scroll, fashioned much like the ancient Roman ones, comes with a stylus and hosts many cool features. It is a device that you can use to browse the net, chat with friends, IM, email, write or draw. It works with most updated servers so that the information you have put on the scroll can be uploaded to any device. It even hosts a hologram to view Windows. When the scroll is closed, it alerts you about incoming messages etc. via the LED flasher. It will be a nice device to carry around, but as most concepts are, their practical usage really depends on the consumer and the industry norms.

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What Will Motorola’s Future Phones Look Like in 2033?

Motorola’s designers, from five different offices around the globe, have been dedicating a portion of their time since late last year to a project called “Motorola 2033.” The initiative, under the auspices of the Consumer Experience Design team (CXD), uses the 25th anniversary of the mobile phone as an opportunity to imagine mobile device design 25 years on, resulting in a curious set of research-based blue sky concepts rooted in some fantastical, yet plausible suppositions.

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