The High tech keyboard in glass desingn

When it comes to keyboards, we just have to keep removing the clickity-click sound. Just think of how quiet your laptop is in comparison to say, a typewriter.

I suppose the next radical step is here with the No-key Keyboard by designer Kong Fanwen. It is the flattest QWERTY keyboard to this writing, and it uses camera and lighting as well as motion capture technology in order to figure out what letters or numbers that you just typed.

Even though this photo shows the keyboard immersed in water, I haven't heard if this keyboard is water-resistant.

I am not certain whether or not this will be available soon, but it certainly is a unique design on something that we all know.

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Tablet PC Made of Wood

Since notebooks tend to go for sleek and shiny, here’s an alternative for all you traditionalists out there. The S-series notebook concept is made of wood. Yes that’s right, WOOD. Nevermind the weight and horrible heat insulation characteristics of the material, it’s supposed to look refined and sexy, at which it does.
The notebook sports one of those ultra-thin 4mm thick LCD screens, and at 17″ wide, there’s plenty of viewing room. The screen itself is backed by black acrylic, you know, to compliment that wood base. Catering to business users, the S-series is a tablet PC powered by Windows Vista.

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Spy Camera Pen

The pen doesn’t actually work, but it does have a built in spy camera for all your secret missions.

The camera features a 3.7mm pinhole lens and can record video in  MPEG4.

It also comes with its own receiver unit with a 2.4 inch TFT LCD screen and 2GB of memory, plus there is a Mini SD card slot so you can add some more memory.
Here’s the specs.

• 3.7mm Pinhole Lens
• 420 TV Lines 1 Lux
• Portable Audio Video Recorder
• Recorded file format in MPEG4
• 2.4-inch TFT LCD
• Built-in 2GB Internal Memory, expandable via Mini SD Card
• Rechargeable Li-ion battery

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Jeans With Keyboard

Geeks would definitely be branded insane if anyone caught them wearing pants like these. Designed to knock off even extreme geeks, these Beauty and the Geek jeans made by designer Erik De Nijs scream out insanity all over. How about typing on your thighs, which hold a keyboard to give you that perfect ergonomic posture you would ever imagine possible. Yeah, there is a keyboard stitched up onto these pants. Speakers sit around the shins which are a little alright but here is the absolute whopper.

Gamers have a little joystick, pun not intended, stitched just above their crotch, the place where the zipper sits. Fiddling with your stick gets an all new meaning with these geeky jeans. Nevermind our dirty humour. Now, how can computing be complete without the ubiquitous mouse? For that, the mouse adorns your backside in these outrageous pair of jeans. We wouldn’t be caught for dead in one of these although we don’t rule out extreme geeks wearing one of these. All said and done, nobody would ever want to watch anyone using these Beauty and the Geek Jeans.

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Lego MP3 Player

Talk about modular gadgets: stuffing MP3 players inside lego cubes is about as versatile as it can get.
Alas, it's just one of those concept design renders. The nonexistent BLOC has a nonexistent 50MB of memory — why do concept designs have specifications? — and would sync and share music with one another if connected.
It's a great idea, so long as they are actually compatible with real Legos.

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Gucci LED watch

We have seen the future of watches, and it's flexible LED. With a bracelet-inspired design, this Gucci watch slides open to reveal a transparent display.

 

 

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sPult Channel Surfer

How many buttons on your remote do you not use, or if you have, never will again because of the results?Yurii  Smitana Perfilov  has designed the sPult Channel Surfer to simplify things. The universal remote features a scroll wheel, a favorites selector, and volume, mute, and power buttons. That’s all. No numbers, no accidental sleep setting, no menu to get lost on. We can’t wait for the sPult to become a workable product and go beyond prototype status. 

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Handheld Digital Wallet

I am sure that you are smart enough not to carry heavy cash with you in present age of e-banking and credit cards. But, still more Veronica Vail considers financial planing important to consolidates multiple ways of tracking your earning and spending. For that she has designed a hand held digital wallet that easily allows monitoring accounts, track investments and make payments instantaneously without visiting your bank or anywhere and serves as the universal money card. It has put the encryption code to your fingerprint identification before any access to information to ensure calm during sleeping hours.
What more it needs is little bit of artificial intelligence to lock your account when you overspend without satisfying your wallet with justified reason.

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LG 17 inch Monitor

A sheet of plexiglass can do wonders for a mundane-looking monitor. This 17-inch LG screen has received a magnificent makeover that perhaps reminds you of some of the recently launched LCD stunners. With a few minor modifications to the casing, the old hag has molted its drab skin, and we are quite impressed with the final product. Check out the images below for a first-hand visual review.

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USB Rechargedable lighter

  Yanko design always seems to have some sort of cool design project to show off, and today the project is a USB rechargeable lighter. Sure smoking will kill you, but this is one cool lighter that lights cigs without a flame.
The heat is produced like a car cig lighter with resistance coils. When the top of the lighter is pushed down the USB connector for recharging the internal battery is revealed. Yanko also says there is some flash memory inside so you can charge your lighter and save files at the same time. I guess the design aims for a little retro style too since it has one of those spinning thingy’s that is used on normal lighters. If the thought of a lighter with flash storage inside gets you all excited, check out the Memlite.

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S-series mobile concept phone

S-series mobile concept is not based on today’s range of phones which leaves a lot to be desired in terms of design, the aim of the game being to cram as many functions as possible into a lumpy box of endless buttons.
The S-series however steps back from this approach and sets off in a radically different design direction by combining sleek, sophisticated styling with top quality materials all put together in a compact package, to make the whole experience of looking at and owning the phone just as pleasurable as using it.
The phone is aimed at people who want to stand out and make a statement, without compromising on features. Designed in such a way that almost every key feature, from using the camera to making and receiving calls, is easily operated without the need to flip out the keypad and waste time.

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High Tech Crosswalks

We’re sure you remember your days as a tot, when crossing the street meant a manly woman dressed in crossing guard garb and a suicide run across a yellow ladder pedestrian line. School Zone is a concept crosswalk that hopes to improve on safety and design for both children and drivers.
The School Zone has an elevated platform design which allows drivers to more easily spot children as they cross (hopefully its not some psycho that is TRYING to run down children) while also providing a speed bump-like ascent. Each School Zone has LEDs that correspond to crosswalk signals, informing pedestrians that they only have a certain amount of time to cross, and letting them know when they should wait it out.

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Live22

The Life 22 is attempting to create a completely new type of phone. Currently phones are used soley to contact other peoeple. The Live 22 plans to broaden phone’s capabilites to communicate. It has 3 different modes. The first contacting other phones. The second, rather than only contacting other phones, it plans to communicate with every device in an environment. The Contextual Text Mode allows the user to send messages to a computer, tv, iPod, and any other device. The third mode of this phone is the most impressive. It is called “Glance” and it allows you to remotely observe the environment. This means that by looking at your phone you are able to see who is there, and what is going on in your area. Here at Tech Pudde we can only pray that the Live 22 concept will someday become a reality.

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Brix Phone

The Brix phone might just be a concept at this point in time, but the idea behind this concept is definitely interesting enough to warrant a commercial production. The whole front surface makes up a touchscreen, allowing you to access all your contacts, messages, and multimedia files via a touch-based interface. What makes the Brix special is the ability to string with another Brix, doubling the screen real estate in an instant. Heck, even a temporary virtual shared folder is created, bringing content from both devices together until they're disconnected. The best part would be chaining a virtually unlimited number of Brix handsets to form a really large (and probably expensive) TV. iPhone who?

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Newsware

Actual, out-in-the-field reporters have the benefit of breathing fresh air every day. This little toolkit concept, the handiwork of Benjamin Kuhn, includes a small video camera, audio recorder and a tablet-like thing for jotting notes while out and about. The tablet doesn’t look as compact as you might expect, but its glossy design ranks right up there with the MacTab we saw earlier.



You’d be a one-man guerilla journalist with this thing. Set up a YouTube account to share your stories and you’d probably draw better ratings than Katie Couric.

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Eazzy

Imagine a tiny USB camera with no viewfinder, no LCD screen, no buttons except 1. Stripped down to it’s bare functions, this mini USB Digital Camera combines the feeling of not knowing how your shots turned out ala analog film with the ease of USB transfer. No cables are necessary. Just plug it straight away in your computer and always be surprised.

 

  

 

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Nintendo Wii 2010 Style

The Nintendo Wii may have revolutionised gaming but we wouldn't bet against it further upping-the-ante, should a mind-controlled Wii 2.0 ever grace our living rooms.
Our awesome artist's impressions, part of the future tech feature in the new issue of T3 Magazine, showcase a Wii headset accessory that uses brainwaves to control characters and also feature immersive in-ear headphones. Sweet.
We've also imagined a streamlined Wii Remote with just the one button. You point and press, your frontal lobes do the rest.
Brain-wave technology is already becoming a reality with Emotiv pioneering in-game systems, but our crystal ball of gadge is advising us to stick a few quid on Nintendo knocking-out the first mind-controlled console on the market.

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SLideon MP3 Player

It is a no brainer to finally see an MP3 player designed after a cellphone, taking some notes from slider handsets and ending up with the Slideon MP3 player concept. Ian Murchison's brainchild hides all the controls under the geometric display - an aesthetically pleasing idea, but dedicated external control buttons would have been a much better idea. After all, most people prefer not to fiddle with levers, slides, and what-nots when it comes to their music, as getting straight to the point is much more important. Other features of the Slideon include flash-based memory and a battery which is recharged via its headphone jack.

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EMS

Ah orchestra. Twas not long ago when I was playing in a band and one of my biggest peeves was carrying butt loads of sheet music. The EMS (E-paper Music Score) solves that mess by using E-paper technology. This single flexible screen can be unrolled and feed sheet music via bluetooth from a computer. Best part is the included foot peddle which virtually turns the pages. Clever clever.
Designer: Serina Sung

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Real Crystal LED Concept Watch

Take a look at the picture, I’m sure your eyes will go bling bling! Ilya Yakovlev (designer inspired by the Swarovsky Signity watches designs a great timepiece featuring surface made from real crystals and are backlit by LEDs. He is thoughtful enough to give some control over the luminosity and change colors so they suit according to your mood.

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iPod Alarm Docking station

According to Sony Insider, Sony released a very interesting new iPod/phone dock, the ICF-CD3iP. Our stylish device is not only an iPod docking station, it’s also an alarm clock and CD/MP3 player.

With it you can charge your iPod or iPhone, listen to the radio (30 FM/AM presets), and plug into other MP3 devices through its line in.

It will be available in October for 70€.

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AMD (Analogue/Digital Mixer) lets you manage music on a mixerboard

Naveen (Who am I?) | Jun 16 2007

Concept gadgets are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don’t have to be concerned about the mundane stuff. The concept of the day is an ADM (Analogue/Digital Mixer) by the designer Christian Sterngren. ADM is a concept device for organizing music productions on a mixerboard and is based on envisaging the actual route of the audio signal with the help of conventional stuffs in an ordered way and in different combinations.
Since the day the first analogue mixers were launched, the mixerboards have gone through a series of development phases. The concept mixerboard offers a plenty of control possibilities. The concept lets the users exactly know that how and where the audio signal is being maneuvered. The best part of the design is that you can enrich yourselves with the vintage feel of the analogue mixerboards.

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Bendiboards Flexible Key

Bendiboards are heavy duty, waterproof keyboards. Available in White or Black Space Invaders or the Union Jack, they are lightweight, ultra slim, and can be rolled up to take traveling. The keyboard material makes for silent typing as well as making it more ergonomic than your average plastic. Connectible by PS2 or USB port, the company will place your logo on the retroboards for a minimum order amount. Bendiboards carry a MSRP of £19.99 (~$40.00.)

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Cocoon

We yesterday spoke off the Consol design that could hook to electronic gadgets and become an interface for a cherishable computing experience. The fantasies were not yet over, and we now have another reason to imagine the impossible. The reason is called Cocoon and it wants to the take the level of computing to a height never thought of. The researchers over NAU want to make it a computer that comprehends human interfacing thus understanding the movements of the hands, the legs and other external parts of our body. The user could actually step inside it and gather all the information he wants by kind of grabbing it. It would be a circular screen on the inside, along with surround sound and all this combined with human interfacing would put the Cocoon on top of the list when talking about user friendly devices. Connect it to the web or enjoy the games, it means a scintillating experience at all times.

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Nokia BMW video phone

Meet the Nokia BMW Video Phone. Take one look and it’s obviously the BMW of cellphones right? A thing of beauty. It’s what you get when you combine the ultimate driving machine with the ultimate video mobile phone.
The Nokia BMW mobile phone has an interesting standout feature called “push to open” which is a mechanism that rotates 90 degrees. Push the button and your phone is a handy-cam. We’re thinking they should get on this one real quick, but experience tells us that they’ll take their own sweet time and let someone else beat them to it. Someo

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Cat's Paw USB flash drive

On the sickeningly cute side of USB flash drives come these Cat’s Paw drives. The Cat’s Paw USB flash drive comes in just one memory size, 2GB, but on the other paw hand you can choose from blue, black and white colors. The price is a steep $61.38, but maybe it could be your new lucky charm. Sort of a modern day rabbit’s foot that holds data and occasionally grants wishes. It should be noted that if you have actual cats, they’re going to wonder who lost a paw and if they are next. I like to think that the white/pink one is a limited edition of four that they acquired after holding Hello Kitty down in a butcher’s shop, but that’s just me.

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Tiny USB Webcam

If you don’t want to go for those combo cams that features fans, lamps and all kinds of stuff, here’s a small model that only does what a web camera is supposed to do.

Features:

• Compact size for notebook
• USB Retractable Cable
• Clip mount for notebook
• Video Conferencing
• Compatible with ICQ, MSN, Skype, etc
• Plug and play
• Fully support USB 1.0 and 2.0
• Video Frame Rate: 30 frame per second
• Pixels: 5,000,000
• Auto Focus
• Driver Free for Windows XP SP2 and Vista
• Support MAC

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