The guys over at Tokyoflash have just released details of their latest watch concept, the Tokyoflash E-Paper Timing Watch. The Tokyoflash E-Paper Timing Watch concept uses E-Paper to display the time in negative space.
It also has a range of built in features which includes Bluetooth connectivity for your mobile phone, when you phone rings or you receive a text message the watch will vibrate.
Here is an interesting design concept for a computer mouse from designer Onur Karaalioglu, the Ceramic Passion Mouse. The Ceramic Passion Mouse features a stylish design.
Whilst you might think the Ceramic Passion Mouse Concept looks like a high end gaming mouse it is actually designed with music in mind.
A team of scientists at IBM have created a technology that uses light to allow chips to communicate and replace the traditional methods using electrical signals via copper wires. The tiny silicon circuits called nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors use small pulses of light to communicate to each at super fast speeds receiving optical data signals at 40Gbps (billion bits per second) and simultaneously multiply them tenfold.
Designed and created by Minebea these futuristic concept mirror keyboards are based on next generation input systems Minebea has named COOL LEAF.
The COOL LEAF keyboards and input devices have no physical keys and use a backlight mirror surfaces with a special film, electrostatic capacity type touch panel with touch force sensors below to recognise input signals.
Built by master craftsman Thomas Prescher the hours and minutes of this amazing Automatic Double Axis Tourbillon Watch are located on the rotating cylinders at the top. Positioned between these is a spherical, moon phase calendar.
The automatic winding weight is located at the bottom of the watch face in a hammock style mechanism which also shows the day and month.The true magic of this watch is located in between both these parts, the Prescher constant force double-axis toubillon which is no full show.
Skinput is a new futuristic interface currently being developed by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University. The system is the combination of two technologies, the ability to detect ultralow-frequency sound, and a microchip-sized projector.
This amazing interface can recognise which parts of the body has been tapped using the sounds that is created by the sin, bone and skeleton. The Skinput technology uses a band which is strapped on to the arm. The armband contains piezoelectric cantilevers, or sensors that measure pressure, acceleration and force.
Check out the video below.
This tiny hotel is actually an Airstream caravan measuring only 29ft x 7ft and is making its rounds at several different locations in London.
If you fancy stopping a night don’t let its size put you off as this miniature hotel comes with a dedicated concierge, check-in desk, room service, a flat screen TV, sound system, fridge and dining room area, double bed with luxury bedding, en-suite facilities and everything you would expect from a top London hotel.
Aurora Watch is a cool design concept from designer Jihun Yeom, and as you can see from the photos the watch features a transparent watch face with no dial or hour markings.
The watch hands are display by tiny laser beams, and a red laser beam displays the minutes and a blue laser beam displays the hours.
Watch phones are a pretty new technology and the ones we have seen so far from companies like LG have pretty basic functions, maybe sometime in the not so distant future we will all be wearing watch phones that look as cool as this design concept from designer Susan Choo, the Sidewinder Watch Phone.
As you can see from the photos, the Sidewinder Watch Phone looks very stylish, and from the looks of the photos is has the same sort of functions as many of the smartphones available today.
I’ve always enjoyed watching toppling domino world records and very occasionally setting up the odd small one from the box of dominoes in the house when I was young. The only trouble is the hassle of setting them backup again.
Well the Ouroborus Domino sculpture rebuilds itself, so no worries about hoemany times you run it. Check out the video of the sculpture in action after the break.
Here is another interesting design concept for today, this one is from designer Lin Tsui-Wei and it won one of the red dot awards for the best design concept of 2009, the Sleeping Coat.
The Grass Lamp is a design concept from designer Marko Vuckovic, and it merges modern technology with nature, obviously it is designed for stylish apartments.
The lamp is made from PVC and it features a strip of lights which will grow whatever plants you place inside the lamp, although in the concept it features grass, I suppose you could grow virtually anything in there.
