Concepts (383 articles)

Wind-up powerstrip concept suggested

Yanko Design is showcasing a wind-up power socket, which allows users to set devices to turn off after a period of time. That could be useful for setting your phone charger to consume less power, or for tightly enforcing TV time for youngsters.

It's easy to use...

Sony shows off hybrid Alpha DSLR compact camera

Sony has shown off an array of new camera concepts at this year's PMA trade show in California.

The new concepts include a new compact Alpha DSLR camera system that employs an Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor and full AVCHD video capability. 

The new ultra-compact...

iGotaBigAssPocket concept jeans revealed for iPad owners

A new concept trouser has been revealed with the "iGotaBigAssPocket" jeans designed for future iPad owners to tote their tablet around in.

Reminiscent of the ridicule Sony's Vaio P series received in terms of pocketability, the "pants" are a bottom-half rival...

VIDEO: Chrome OS tablet concept demoed

Concept images and a video have shown up on the Chromium site for the yet to be released Chrome OS operating system from Google.

Although a launch of the Google powered OS isn't expected until November at the earliest, that hasn't stopped the search engine releasing...

iDrift concept for iPad revealed

It's not out yet and already the iPad is seeing concept accessory ideas from those inspired by the new Apple tablet.

Here, designer Michael Greenberg imagines up an add-on controller suitable for racing games, dubbed the iDrift.

From the look of...

VIDEO: Nokia reveals radar-based gesture control and speedo concepts

Nokia's research bods have revealed a "Mobile Radar" concept that shows how one day you could measure an object's distance, speed, and direction using a mobile device.

"It's essentially the same technology the police use in their radars", says Nokia, with...

VIDEO: Synaptics Fuse phone interface gets demoed

There's been a lot of interest in Synaptics' futuristic "Fuse" interface for touch-based control of smartphones, although figuring out how it works in practice from just text and images isn't that easy.

That's why we've managed to dig out a video for your viewing...

Facebook gets made into a real book

An artist called Laura Balboa has taken the Facebook concept full-circle, and turned the website into a hardback book.

The website was originally named "Facebook" after the books that some American universities would hand out at the start of the year to help students...

Nokia gives early glimpse of Symbian S^4

Nokia has been showing off a few screenshots of what the forthcoming S^4 edition of Symbian could look like. The company has issued technical information, too, along with a concept proposal and are asking for feedback from both developers and users.

We don't know...

Android-powered microwave brings cooking to the Google OS

While you'll expect to find Android in the latest smartphone or Internet tablet, one place that you wouldn't expect it is in a Microwave.

Welcome to CES 2010.

A company called Touch Revolution has done the unthinkable and kitted out not only a microwave,...

Dell Studio 16 OLED concept shown off

Dell has unveiled a concept laptop featuring a 16-inch OLED screen showing what could be possible in the future for notebooks. 

Packed into a Studio XPS 16, the OLED is just 2mm thick and comes with virtually a 180-degree viewing angle.

If that wasn't...

Teleepoch demos gesture-controlled phone

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a company called Teleepoch has demonstrated a mobile phone which doesn't have a single button on it - it's all controlled by gestures instead.

At the moment it's just a proof-of-concept, but the device is absolutely...

VIDEO: Asus Waveface concepts get animated

If you think your understanding of Asus' new Waveface concepts would be improved by watching pink cartoon people interact with them to an inane soundtrack then press play. 

The Asus Waveface ideas unveiled at this year's CES, incorporate a futuristic watch that...

PHOTOS: Synaptics Fuse phone wants you to squeeze your way around the interface

Synaptics first talked to us about the "Fuse" touchphone concept in December last year, and a month on has now got a working proof of concept to show off at CES in Las Vegas.

We were in the right room at the right time to have a play.

The new concept device...

MSI dual screen notebook tablet concept demoed

MSI has demoed two new touchscreen concept devices at CES that could be available as soon as June - if public feedback is positive - that look like the much rumoured Microsoft Courier or the Asus Eee Reader.

Although lacking a name at the moment, the dual screen...

Asus unveils this year's CES concepts

Asus, never shy with sharing concept designs and ideas, has unveiled its futuristic designs for this year's CES showcase.

Under the "Waveface" banner, the concept products are said to represent Asus' "context-based vision of the digital life".

This...

Android-based household gadgets to be shown off at CES

More Android-based consumer electronics are due over the next year in a move that will see the platform extended from its current arena of primarily the mobile phone market.

Touch Revolution and TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) have announced a partnership "to...

Designer creates bum-shaped speaker

You need this in your life. A team of designers, Javad Yazdani, Mohsen Tafazzoly, and Younes Daneshvar, have unveiled a concept loudspeaker called the Asspeaker. That's it above. What a beauty.

Available in white, black and pink, the product actually comprises...

OLPC planning XO-3 tablet for 2012

The OLPC foundation, which has been credited with originally inventing the concept of a netbook, has unveiled a prototype of a Tablet PC called the XO-3, which it claims will be available for $75 when it arrives in 2012.

It's planned to have an 8.5- by 11-inch...

Art Lebedev reveals Fleximus camera concept

The answer to the design problem of making a "flexible camera" from Russian studio Art Lebedev looks a cross between an endoscope and a compact.

The "Fleximus" camera is described as a "flexible tube with a lens" which users can then choose to mount to either...

VIDEO: Mag+ digital magazine concept

A London design agency called BERG has reimagined how magazines could look in the future with a concept video of a product that it's calling Mag+.

The concept has been produced in conjunction with Bonnier's R&D division, the magazine publishers behind Popular...

Advanced Synaptics "Fuse" touchphone concept revealed

Known for pushing innovations in human interface solutions, Synaptic's announcement of the Fuse concept mobile phone, developed with global partners Texas Instruments, Immersion, TheAlloy, and The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), hints that the future of touch-based smartphone...

Concept microwave lets you watch YouTube

Here's a nifty idea. It's a novel concept for a microwave called the Castoven that integrates a 10-inch LCD display to the front of the device, in place of the grille that normally allows you to see you food spin round like a record.

That screen is connected to...

VIDEO: "Coming soon" Sports Illustrated tablet concept demoed

Hot on the heels of the Conde Nast "Wired" demo, Time Inc's "Sports Illustrated" has made a stab at a concept of what the mag might look like on a tablet device.

Thought to be in anticipation of Apple releasing a multimedia tablet later next year, the big American...

VIDEO: Wired for the Apple iTablet revealed

We know that publishing giant Conde Nast is taking the idea of an Apple iTablet so seriously it's already prepping content for the as-yet-unofficial platform, and here Conde Nast title Wired shows off a preview of what the mag might look like on the rumoured iPad.