Concepts

I know it all sounds confusing, but that's the concept behind this particular Swedish idea, which brings consumers to the very front of the design process and lets them literally draw their own furniture, mixing art and creativity with technology. The 3-person FRONT Design team “draws� directly into the air using the tip of a pen, creating invisible line sequences that are captured by surrounding cameras connected to computers.

Thomas Miller has come up with the IEye concept that was submitted as an entry to the Create the Future Contest, and this concept touches on extending the life of personal media players by featuring the added functionalities of both a digital video still camera and a microphone. Granted, consumer electronics move at such a fast pace that the only new thing you have is always in the pipeline and never in your hands.

t's also not real, or at least not available for purchase. It's just a concept by Byung-seok You, but something similar should be easy enough to cook up for yourself should you live in an old building that still has radiators.

hey weren't wrong in concept, even if the execution is a little curvy.I've already said it before, but it bears lots of repetition: if you scanned in this sort of retro-future work I would be very grateful.

.. ubles as Wings – I'm not sure how to embed this particular flash video of a disappearing door concept car, in which the door slides into the undercarriage, but it's cool, so here's a link. [RonSusser.c ..

Consumerist was given a disturbing story by a reader who flew ATA to Hawaii and was accosted by an over-zealous flight attendant who didn't understand the concept of "Airplane Mode" on the iPhone, despite the fact that similar features have been available in phones and other gadgets for years.Now some of you will say "Why didn't this guy just turn off his iPhone and stop causing problems?" There's a time and a place for every battle, sure, but check out what a cock this attendant was after the flight landed, when they tried to have the customer arrested

We also have an article titled "Scientific Hoaxes that Have Fooled the World" as well as a machine that makes ice cream instantly. Lastly we have very odd, unbalanced looking concept car that looks like it was made by welding together the fronts of two other cars.

The new Sleeptracker Pro takes the original "sleep watch" concept and adds a new software component, allowing you to download your "sleep history" to a PC and track how well you've snoozed over time. The new Sleeptracker Pro watch has an updated look, too, although it's still a bit too goofy to be worn all day

.. is at the Tokyo Auto Show and snapped a few pictures of this fantastic Suzuki "Biplane" motorcycle concept. I'm not entirely sure why it's called "Biplane." Perhaps it will all-too-easily send its rider air ..

Hungarian designer Levente Szabó has won the 2007 Electrolux Design Lab competition with his concept for the "E-wash," a washing machine that forgoes chemical detergent for "soap nuts," which are completely organic.In India and Nepal, people have used the soap nut (sapindus mucorossi) for centuries to get their clothes clean.

.. phone, which may or may not exist. [GigaOm]• Throw It Back – Futuristic "Lobster" watch concept uses modular watch band additions to add functionality, price. [Oh Gizmo]• iDrive 2.0 – ..

If there were any justice in the world, this concept Daihatsu transporter—dubbed, kitted out as it is for off-roading, the Mudmaster-C—would be something I could go out any buy today.Let's just soak that in: Mudmaster-C

he Active Constraint Robot is a mechanical wonder that brings the concept of accuracy to the operating theater, where the expression Active Constraint is used to describe the materialization of a control technology that has been applied to a motorized programmable device. The tool mounted on the device itself is restricted by both hardware and software within a certain volume in space.

What better way to work around this problem than this conceptual Compact Analog Joystick? Many of us are familiar with the Sony Ericsson range of cellphones which come with a navigational joystick, but more often than not the tiny joystick is unable to keep up with the everyday rigors of use/abuse, malfunctioning pretty easily. The Compact Analog Joystick solves this problem as it can be stored safely back once you no longer need to use it.

Architect Bart Lens has come up with the Matrix Bathrobe concept that is designed with similar oversized, flowing material which made Keanu Reeves the ultimate authority where coolness is concerned. The Bathrobe concept promises a dashing, hussar-like appearance to whoever wears it.

he technology appears to be loosely based on the Video Egg concept which has been selling video ads on their viral site for over a year. Google does insist that the ads will only appear in videos created by partners who will share in the revenue and that it is not working toward monetizing all of the videos on the site.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has obviously thought about such a GPS-less situation, and has awarded a concept development contract to a team of bigwig corporations led by none other than Boeing. Known as the Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) program, this technology will concentrate on developing technologies which are capable of exploiting different signals of opportunity - basically any electronic waves emanating from satellites, cellphone towers, and even TV transmission towers.

With Civilization 4, a brand new gamer needs to learn the concept of a "turn" in order to play, and our tutorial was aimed at these players as, yes, sort of a necessary evil.Once people understand turns and left/right-clicking (or are not afraid to just experiment), we orient the design to make sure that the first play-through would be fun, without any game mechanic stumbling blocks.

Before illustrator Syd Mead became famous for his movie designs—including Blade Runner, 2010, and TRON, among many others (including the recent imaginative but flawed Michael Bay flick, The Island)—he made a name for himself as a lifestyle concept designer. Although Mead has been obsessed with vehicle designs since he was a student, his work dreaming up other aspects of "future" living are just as striking

He got the tech giant to fork over \$1 for every player sold, plus royalties. Total Music would take that concept even further.