Gizmodo were padding through CES and they managed to spot this see-through laptop – don’t ask me how they saw an invisible puter; I guess they’re good at that kinda thing.
Sadly this is just a working concept with quite a pixely display but hey, it has a clear AMOLED screen!!!
Imagine if the keyboard was invisible as well, you know, using a second touchscreen like the main one. A fully transparent puter (apart from all the wires, chips, etc)!
Anyhooo…..
You can see right through the screen until something appears then it’s back to normalish.
This, my friends, is what 2010 is supposed to be bringing! It’s the future!
Mmmmmm……….. peeeeeeeeeeeeeanuuuuuuts……. Peanuts and beer……. beeeeeeeeeer…..
Ahem – you’d better not be thinking beer if you’re going to use this P-NUT from Honda.
Yup – The Honda P-NUT.
This is the Japanese manufacturers glimpse into the future and there’s not even a snack-tray in sight.
The Honda P-NUT (Or Personal-Neo Urban Transport) has just been unveiled at the LA Auto Show and, like so many other concepts, is specifically designed to be “ideal for use in cities and tight urban areas,” – in other words it’s designed to be stood in traffic and squeeze into parking bays that are actually too small.
Honda has opted for the central driving position option which has been seen before but I’m digging that modular engine slot which means you can take out that battery-powered motor for some old-skool petroleum spirited horses.
I quite like the futurist exterior but when you get into the drivers seat you’ll notice the lack of dials, just a speedometer on a stalk which may be multi-use but the P-NUT uses the windshield as a display for navigation, and can even dish out picture in picture views from the rear camera.
Word is that this is just a concept and is likely to remain so – but would you be proud to tell your buddies in the pub that you arrived in a P-NUT?
Remember the post about the very lovely Brionvega audio gear.
Sexiness in retro designer form.
Well my UK living friends – good news!
You can now buy a selection of goodies from right here, in this country of ours.
The classic cube radio was designed in 1963 by Richard Sapper & Marco Zanuso and is now a true design [...]
Tech keeps advancing and as it does so gadgets get thinner and smaller – almost to the point where the portable power sources, batteries to you and I, are getting too chunky for the tech they need to juice up.
Well – what we could do with is some nuclear batteries like the vision of the [...]
I was honoured with being one of the first members of the press to actually be shown around the Future Technology lab at Sony’s R&D base in Stuttgart.
The lab’s General Manager, Dr. Gabriele Nelles, spoke to us about the clever dye-sensitised solar cells that they are working on – the Hana-Akari lamps (pictured) were exhibited [...]
Ah, to be in charge of your own robot army eh?
Sat there on your cyberpunk throne; flick a switch and thy will be done…..
Better still, your commands are given to your automated troops by the power of your evil mind! MWAHAHHAhahahaahahahahahahahahahh!!!
Errrrrrrrrrrrm…….
Sorry……..
Not sure what came over me then.
This isn’t too far away from what Japan’s Honda [...]
Wired have uncovered a form of transport that mixes the reliability brought by that German attention to detail we expect from Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt mixed with an Imperial speeder bike!
The Audi Shark concept has been penned by 26-year-old Kazim Doku and was the winning entry into a design competition (.pdf) co-sponsored by Audi and [...]
Cute robot alert!!
I just couldn’t help myself.
I had to let you all know about these little bots.
The Takara Tomy’s Robo-Q is the world’s smallest bidpedal robot.
It’s controlled by an infrared remote control and features magnetic feet and a built-in speaker.
You’ll be able to get them in either retro or future flavours.
These little fellas are expected [...]
Helicopters are so 20th century man!
The design was first penned by Da Vinci for crissakes!
But, perhaps with some alien help, we’re gonna be flying around using Mono Tiltrotors, apparently.
AeroCopter is about to develop a scale-model flight demonstrator prototype of one.
Here’s the blurb:
Seeking funding to support the work, the Boston, Massachusetts-based-AeroCopter’s MTR vehicle has a single turbine driving a [...]
This is a glimpse into the mobile handset future through Sony Ericsson’s eyes – date: 2012.
Ignore todays cutbacks to R&D budgets and the global economy shuddering to a halt
Whilst LTE and fast CPUs are no real surprise and Japanese superphones are already not to far from that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution.
What is most interesting [...]
Wired have produced a series of futuristic bumper stickers to give us a glimpse of what truckers and the like will be displaying on their vehicles in the year 2018.
Not sure about the Canadian Border Fence one though………….but then, that’s probably just me.
Have a giggle over the pics – Wired Bumper Stickers
Those whacky, crazy and imaginative people over at KDDI AU Design Project in Japan have come up with this great funky concept for the next generation of music-phones.
Named Box To Play, it starts off as a really neat mobile blower with the regular keypad, camera and stuff…. but then the magic happens!
It transforms into its own speaker system with a graphic [...]
Hitachi has unveiled an office worker robot named “EMIEW 2,” which is a lighter, more compact and more sophisticated version of Hitachi’s 1st-generation EMIEW (Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate) robot developed in March 2005. The robot was demonstrated on November 21 at the company’s Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, where it was supposed to [...]
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