We like concept products around here, and when they serve a useful purpose and do something green at the same time, we get all excited. A new umbrella stand concept has turned up that not only dries your umbrella to prevent slippery wet messes but also actually uses the water in an eco-friendly … [Read more...] about Concept Umbrella Stand Dries Your Umbrella and Uses the Water
Concepts
Tokyoflash Space Digit Watch Concept
The guys over at Tokyoflash have come up with another cool watch concept, the Tokyoflash Space Digit Watch. The Tokyoflash Space Digit Watch features a unique design, with blue LEDs and a black case and strap. It looks like it may be a little easier to tell the time on this concept watch than on … [Read more...] about Tokyoflash Space Digit Watch Concept
Augmented Reality Olympus PEN E-PL1 Demo
If you're looking for the future of augmented reality in marketing campaigns, then this Olympus PEN E-PL1 Demo is definitely worth a look. Using the same technology in augmented reality business cards, a marker card and your web camera create a fully interactive presentation with an augmented … [Read more...] about Augmented Reality Olympus PEN E-PL1 Demo
Flowlab Skateboard
The Flowlab board is trying to take the classic skateboard to the next level. Where a classic skateboard will allow you to carve at 25 degrees, the Flowlab board allows up to 45-degree carves, using 14 wheels rather than the traditional 4. Developed in 1999 by a couple of San Francisco design … [Read more...] about Flowlab Skateboard
Plastic Bottle Boat Completes Pacific Crossing
Plastiki, a boat built using plastic drinking bottles for its main flotation, has successfully crossed the Pacific, arriving on Monday in Sydney, Australia, after completing the 11,000-mile crossing. 12,000 soft-drink bottles were used in the construction for the buoyancy of the 60ft Plastiki boat, … [Read more...] about Plastic Bottle Boat Completes Pacific Crossing
Autonomous Vans from Italy Set Sights on China
Four bright orange vans decked out with enough hardware to impress the Autobots will travel from Parma, Italy all the way to China beginning this week. As an epic experiment in autonomous driving from a team of Italian engineers led by Alberto Broggi, the journey is supposed to reveal the perils … [Read more...] about Autonomous Vans from Italy Set Sights on China
The Budget Tool Gives a Cold Hard Reality Check on Your Money Situation
Designer Hampus Edstrom created The Budget Tool, a device that measures a person’s financial status using 3-dimensional cubes. It works by inputting data on the PDA screen that calculates and transmits to the corresponding box whose cubes form solid, physical graphs indicating income minus … [Read more...] about The Budget Tool Gives a Cold Hard Reality Check on Your Money Situation
iPad Syte T-Shirt With Billboard Pocket
We have featured a few unique designs on Geeky Gadgets to carry iPads in clothing, but this iPad T-Shirt allows you to use your iPad for advertising as you wear it, just like a billboard. Simple start your advertising video running and slip your iPad into the chest pocket behind the transparent … [Read more...] about iPad Syte T-Shirt With Billboard Pocket
New 3D Gesture Control System Makes Minority Report Look Dated (video)
3D Gesture control represented in movies such as Minority Report starring Tom Cruise is always great to see and normally so far-fetched that real-life technology takes years to match the movie. Well, a new 3D gesture control system designed and developed by Fraunhofer is looking to make the … [Read more...] about New 3D Gesture Control System Makes Minority Report Look Dated (video)
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 The Ultimate (Must See) Physics Engine
If you think modern games have good physics effects, then be prepared to be blown away. The Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 is a fantastic physics engine designed and written to replicate the laws of real-life physics in a digital environment in an ultra-realistic way. View the video after the jump to see … [Read more...] about Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 The Ultimate (Must See) Physics Engine
The Wall Mounted Washing Machine
We have featured quite a few different design concepts here at Geeky Gadgets, and the latest one is designed to make our lives easier and save us some space around our home: the wall-mounted washing machine. As you can see from the photo, the washing machine is mounted on the wall, and it looks … [Read more...] about The Wall Mounted Washing Machine
Concept Nokia Kinetic Phone Stands Up For Calls
This unique concept Nokia phone by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins Design uses an original method to notify you of an incoming call, by standing up. The mechanism works using an electromagnet that shifts its weight in the curved base when an incoming call is received, making the phone lift vertically into the … [Read more...] about Concept Nokia Kinetic Phone Stands Up For Calls
