Concepts

Astonishing popularity of iPhone draws attention of not gadget lovers only. Even concept makers began to use Apple's smartphone for their interesting and futuristic designs. Due to its advanced connectivity and large multi-touch display, iPhone provides excellent remote control possibilities. Many iPhone users started to develop this side of their device: there already are iPhone controlled toys, robots... And now there is real car, controlled with help of an iPhone! It is only a concept for now, which will be revealed on Geneva Auto Show. More details follow.

It is not the fact yet, but given device looks really stylish and unusual.Now it is just a concept, but in case one of the cell phones producers decides to use it in any model, soon we will be able to find out how comfortable it is.

This concept has a small display where dialing/calling numbers, time and date are indicated. It also has a phone book in order to simplify number dialing.

We are no strangers to auto industry here at this blog. How can we not if it is a constant source of innovation and cutting edge technologies? So we got one more concept from ZF guys. This auto supplier from Germany has shown an alternative way to construct a MacPherson strut which uses a significant amount of carbon fiber in its production. I can sense images of sports cars popping up in your mind. Well hold it. It’s for small city-cars and yes, it sounds like despite benefits of lower mass and higher strength carbon fiber will be too expensive to be used in small cars. ZF engineers say they have found their way round it.

We are talking about the concept of the 3D video. The Philips Company is going to produce new type of TV-sets and monitors for the computers.

MIT students are again on their way to total optimization of divers and opposite paths to greater progress. Less than a month ago we were reviewing energy recovering shock absorbers also designed by a team of students from MIT and we liked a lot it’s uncompromising usefulness. Today we are taking a look at robots that came out of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. They can no more or less take full care of a garden. AgBot from Louisiana State University could do similar stuff, but trust me on this – these are completely different leagues.

A wristwatch is such an attribute nowadays. Except for a watch itself, every single portable gadget tends to aid its users with information on time, date, weather, etc. In this turmoil old-fashioned watch is kind of lost and seems irrelevant and useless to many people, especially young people, who choose to not have a watch at all. That puts one of the most important devices of our fathers in danger of extinction. This might be the reason why Ulysse Nardin, worldwide popular wristwatch manufacturer, has decided to apply some of their technologies to bright future mobile phones, notably a kinetic winder.

Submerging a motherboard with all of the adapters and fans inside the case into vegetable oil is indeed not new and not very popular. This has fewer upsides than problems it may cause while assembling and using the PC. Makes it of course more exiting, but prime advantage of all this – liquid cooling – has found interest between overclockers and gamers. So, a liquid cooling kit for a processor alone is an average thing these days. And now we got an announcement from BFG which sais they will do VGA cards with liquid cooling.

That's why he decided to design Globus concept that shows his creativity and imagination. Globus represents a multi-functional mobile office that looks like a sphere.

Carbon footprint of households and offices has one the highest ratings after cars and factories in any megapolis. This comes from heating and cooling systems and electric devices, so the recent years every once in while we come across a new way to cut objectionable effect on Mother Nature. One of my favorite is an office heating system that uses heat taken from servers if there are any in the same building. Anyway, now there is a new one. The working concept done by Artica Technologies cuts 90% of today's everyday average CO₂ emissions.

HP’s arrival on tablet market was and is well covered and highly anticipated. As I previously noted, computer companies must excel at designing tablets. Despite this there are no living examples of a truly successful tablet made by a PC company. Yes, Windows 7 is good as a desktop and notebook operating system, but porting it to a touchscreen tablet is a challenge. Which is probably why HP uses their proprietary webOS and Dell has gone for the Android. MSI, however, decided to stick with Microsoft and Intel for their tablet concept.

As a result I think that it would be really great in case the benches like these appeared in public places in the near future. Because despite the simplicity of given concept it is safe to say that it would be probably considered as a very useful one.

k at the price of /\$1200. In case sales are successful, soon it will be possible to purchase this concept in every corner of the globe.

The Smart Shopper gadget has a good concept but I am not sure that you can trust that voice recognition technology. However, you can always remember what you wanted to buy when you read the word that familiar.

It looks like finally ATI Radeon HD 4770 is going to find its match. As expected, it is NVIDIA who is going to roll out graphics cards with a benefit of 40nm fabrication process. You might have heard their plans about 40nm GPUs long before, but there was a very good reason that was holding them back. Now it is obsolete and NVIDIA is almost certainly planning some next gen graphics cards for September.

This concept represents a solar panel that looks like a simple trinket. Yet it's designed to prolong your cell phone's work time.

Unfortunately additional details on the Spice Gun are scarce. Furthermore, it's still a concept and there is no such a real product yet.

When we meet with many persons a day, and we must know their personal information for contacting them in the future, it is a huge time loss when we ask it from them personally. Visiting cards are great, but they tend to be lost especially when you need them the most. Bluetooth vCard transfer technology didn't found appreciation in the business circles - maybe this is because it is much easier to give your card or spell your number than go through myriads of options on both telephones to transfer tiny file. Japanese designer made an interesting concept that will solve this problem once and for all.

So if we need them both, why don't we combine them?Wilson Song thought the same, and made this interesting concept of how a combined device will look like. It is fair to suppose that this vacuum broom will be useful everywhere - from backyard to inside a house.

enerally I think that this is a very good idea and I like this concept. This gadget will really make everybody at the picnic happy to the last bottle of soda.