Artist Arturo Castro has used realtime face cloning applications to create a freaky video entitled “Faces.” Castro has used a realtime face substitution footage made using  Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker + Jason Saragih’s facetracker library to create some very strange images of him wearing other peoples faces. Castro got the inspiration for his video from the thought of  grabbing someone else [...]

Design firm Artefact have created a radically simple printer concept called the SWYP drastically moving away from the traditional printer most of us have in our offices and homes. The new concept called “SWYP: See What You Print” uses a touchscreen display to allow you to manipulate, resize and even tweak your photos using a [...]

New smartphones are being fitted with ever faster processors to help them power through the latest applications, but the flip side to using faster processors in our devices is the added strain it puts on our battery life. Researchers at the University of Michigan computer science and engineering have been looking into the problem and developed a new subconscious [...]

Apparently we’ll all be semi-naked in the future. That’s not too far off the mark, if movies like The Fifth Element and Planet of the Apes (the people, not the apes) are templates for upcoming lifestyle trends. Seen below is a startling example of seamless clothes. Call it post-fashion and ultra minimalist from designer Yitzhak [...]

Take your average touchscreen, multiply it, then combine both screens into one phone. The designers didn’t bother with the engineering part, however, so their concept has to be taken on blind faith that it’s awesome. According to the available concept illustrations, each touchscreen are independent wireless devices that can be separated or opened like a [...]

An innovative bike lock concept has been developed that uses the frame of the bike as the lock. So if any would-be thief cuts through or damages the lock in anyway the bike becomes unusable. As you can see in the pictures below the rear forks are used to create the lock and secure your bike to a meter, post [...]

If you fancy creating your very own d-touch sequencer and drum machine, researchers at the University of Southampton have now designed one you can print off and assemble with a little glue or sticky tape. To get the most from your new d-touch sequencer and to actually hear anything you will need to have access [...]

If you are a little bored with the traditional styled earphones that are currently on the market you might be interested in these very unique earphones designed by Catherine Wong. There is not much information or details regards the design inspiration behind these fantastic looking earphones. But the flexibility provided by the jointing within the design is both reminiscent of joint bones and [...]

We have featured a number of folding bikes here on Geeky Gadgets over the years but this one created by designers Weiche Wu & Minhan Lin must have the smallest footprint of all when folded up. Admittedly the concept doesn’t have the largest of wheels so you will need to be carefully if your streets have a [...]

We have feature a number of different add on keyboards for the iPhone here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is inspired by the design of Apple’s Smart Cover for the iPad 2. The iPhone Smart Keyboard is just a concept at the moment, and it is the works of designer Jing Yang from the [...]

For the record, these heels look like torture. If we’re not mistaken, in the pantheon of women’s footwear the Yummy Mummys (terrible name) are wedges but have stiletto design features. So that makes it a hybrid? We’re not going to over think them but holy smoke, the Yummy Mummy heels look agonizing to wear–but what [...]

Harvesting free energy as you walk, sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but now its edging closer to reality. Thanks to the researchers at UW-Madison who have been working on an energy harvester shoe. A new power generating shoe concept has been created  which collects the mechanical energy produced by humans during walking, storing it ready [...]