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Category Archives: Concept

Google Tablet – The iPad Killer?

By Gaurav Kheterpal on 02/08/10 • 5 Comments

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By Gaurav Kheterpal

Even before the buzz around the release of Apple iPad could settle down, Google has set the alarm bells ringing for Apple by releasing the first images of its much anticipated concept – The Google Tablet. Much like the iPad, the Google Tablet will have a sleek and stylish design.

The device will offer innovative features like contextual actions triggered via dwell (What does that even mean? -Ed.), UI Zooming for multiple tabs and an ability to create multiple browsers on the screen. Google has collaborated with a number of leading hardware manufacturers to implement this concept and once it comes to life, it might well turn out to be the iPad killer. Or perhaps this secret Apple project will.

[ The Chromium Project ] VIA [ TechCrunch ]

Armatix Gun: Watch That Trigger

By Gaurav Kheterpal on 02/01/10 • 4 Comments

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By Gaurav Kheterpal

When you have a gun in your hand, people often advice you – ‘Watch that Trigger’. Armatix decided to take that advice literally and came up with a watch that controls your gun. Wearing a stylish wrist watch is trendy (except this watch is fugly) and owning a gun has its own aura – so if the two can be combined, it offers you the best of both worlds.

The gun won’t work and a red LED will light up if the watch isn’t in close proximity of the gun. The way this unusual combination works is through the watch sending a wireless arming signal to the gun. If the gun picks up the signal, it gets armed and a green LED lights up. Priced at nearly 7,000 Euros, this is quite an expensive affair.

I’m wondering what happens if your watch battery dies out and you need the gun?

[ Armatix ] VIA [ Wired ]

Robotic Lifeguard Saves Your Life Using Silicon Instead Of Silicone

By Jonathan Kimak on 07/07/08 • Leave a comment!


By Jonathan Kimak

The Seascout is a prototype rescue craft designed and created by Andre Harley. He created the prototype using the Lego mindstorms robotics NXT kit. The Seascout will use GPS to track anyone who has fallen into the water. It will scoop the person up and take them to safety. It will also have radios so that the person in the water can communicate with someone on the shore(or boat). It is also intended to be able to work in situations and weather that a human lifeguard would not be able to handle.

So now we have robots that can serve beer and robots that can save you when you get drunk and fall into the ocean. Forget about terminators taking over the world. We’re being taken over by helpful and cute Wall-Es.

[ Andre Harley ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]

The Pioneer Brings Back Lighted Shoes

By Chris Scott Barr on 04/08/08 • Leave a comment!

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By Luke Anderson

Remember back in the 90′s when light-up shoes were all the rage, and people actually said the phrase “all the rage”? Well someone has come up with a design for a new light-up shoe that might actually have a purpose, unlike those hideous things we all wore as kids.

The Pioneer is a shoe designed for people that love to go walking, running or jogging at night. I will admit that my favorite time to jog (when I actually jog, which is rare) is at night. Then again my favorite time to do anything is at night. The sneakers have built-in LEDs which produce a beam of light  up to 1.5 meters away. You’ll get around 12 hours out of each charge, which isnt’ too bad since the tiny battery will be contained within a shoe. Unfortunately it is only a concept for now.

VIA [ Yanko Design ]

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