Tag Archives: design

Pantech Concept Phones make an appearance at CTIA

Seeing all of these Pantech concept phones in public is as rare as a understandable sentence coming from Ozzy Osbourne’s mouth. Meaning it almost never happens. Visitors of the CTIA conference were lucky enough to see a showcase of these concepts. Pantech says that not only is it rare for these phones to be shown together in public, but they ...

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DIY: Google Map Icons in real life

Want to make a geek take a second glance? Try setting up one of these real Google Map icons somewhere in your town. Watch as the geeks fear over their sanity. “I think I was on the computer way to long last night”. The fear of being brainwashed will drive them mad. This would be an absolutley awesome idea for ...

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Roy Block: Mixed reality video game concept will blow your mind

[ev type=”youtube” data=”kOpeKBOKXz0″][/ev] Roy Block is one of those things you don’t see very often. A creation that can revolutionize how we look at something, in this case, gaming. Using a tangible interface, the came stands on the edge of a mixed reality, integrating our world, with the game world. If words could do the concept justice, we would describe ...

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Ridiculously small Mini-me mobile phone replicas

We thought the Xun Chi 138 was the smallest cellphone we were ever going to see. Despite their lack of operation, these weeny sized Mini Japanese cellphones are ridiculously smaller than anything else on the market. Of course, these phones are totally incapable of making any calls or sending any texts, but you could probably fool some 6-year-old that what ...

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Nokia’s s40 QVGA screen premium phone caught in the wild: 8600 Luna?

Today we saw two pictures of a supposedly Nokia premium phone with QVGA screen, this is speculated to be the brother of 8800 Sirocco: the 8600 Luna. Specs are non-existent for the mean time, but we expect the phone to run on the Symbian Series 40 platform and house a 2 megapixels fixed focus camera. This should not be an ...

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The Lonely Jacket brings friends uncomfortably close

If you ever thought that being lonely was the worst possible feeling, think again. The Lonely Jacket makes sure that instead of being lonely, you have people literally right on top of you. We all walk through the day bumping into people and not uttering a word. We can use our clothing as a social tool, rather than the conformists ...

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I’ll have a number 4 on rye, hold the Mario

Some mothers scold their children for playing with their food. Others encourage it. This mother bases her children’s lunch around game playing. This Japanese super-mom packs her children custom made lunches themed as popular animated characters. Most of these lunch creations focus on popular Nintendo games such as Super Mario, Animal Crossing, and Mario Kart. While some of these meals ...

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Cassette Wallet brings us back to the eighties

Remember these things? They are called “cassette tapes” and were widely used in the 80’s and early-90’s. What was the single most popular music format for over a decade, is now being used as novelty fashion products. Hand-made using real used cassette tapes, the Cassette Wallet screams memories of our old Warrant and Poison cassettes. Made by designer Marcella Foschi, ...

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Happy Birthday ATM! You need a MAX BOX face lift!

This year the ATM turns 40. With the sagging skin and aging effects of middle age, the ATM is definitely showing its age and in desperate need of a tune-up, both cosmetically and performance wise. The MAX BOX is a new face for the ATM, on a mission to revolutionize how we look at automatic transaction machines. The MAX BOX ...

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