Design Concepts Category

WIMM Labs WIMM One Android Watch Previewed [WIMM One Watch: Boasts Modular Design, Runs Android, Sports Transflective TFT Display]

By on Wednesday, 3. August 2011

Android is now the most popular mobile operating system around so it only makes sense that when we heard someone was making an Android watch we got excited! The WIMM One Android watch is a modular, one inch square component running Android 2.1 (soon to be Android 2.3) and the [...]

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New Phone Concept Conceived For Those Who Can Only Use One Hand [Orbital Phone Specifically Designed For The Disabled]

By on Tuesday, 2. August 2011

What would happen if you ever lost the use of one of your hands? How would you ever use your smartphone to its fullest potential? This happened to a 24-year-old and happens to be what led to the design of the Orbital phone concept.

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Toyota GRMN Hybrid II Introduced at Nurburgring [Sexy, Fast Hybrid Sports Car From Toyota Is A Mid-Engine All Wheel Drive]

By on Friday, 24. June 2011

Who says going green can’t be cool and sexy? While the Tesla Roadster is going the way of the Dodo, other car manufacturers are just starting with their eco-friendly, but sporty designs. Toyota’s latest hybrid concept car is the GRMN II.

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Tablets With Pixel Qi Screens Can Run On Solar Power [Pixel Qi's Low-Power Display Technology Can Enable Tablets To Work Outdoors, Powered By Sunlight]

By on Saturday, 4. June 2011

There are two things that tablet computers often have trouble with: power and sunlight. But with Pixel Qi technology, these problems can actually be assets. pix

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EcoPad Concept Tablet Design Generates Electricity From Touch [Concept Design for Tablet Uses Nano Piezoelectric Film To Harness Energy From Human Touch]

By on Friday, 27. May 2011

Tablet users might be neglecting a potentially huge power source that can generate electricity for tablet computers: human touch. A concept design plans to address this by using power-generating layers on the touch-sensitive tablet screens.

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Huawei Leaf Concept Phone is Sexy, But Dumb [Huawei Announces Classic Mobile Phone With Ergonomic Design; It's Not a Smartphone, Though]

By on Monday, 11. April 2011

In a world of smartphones, tablets and devices that can do just about anything, is there space for a dumbed-down phone that just does calls and texts? Make it sexy enough, and Huawei thinks so.

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Imperia Bringing Plug-In Hybrid With Style To The Green Auto Scene[Imperia GP Is Hybrid Vehicle That Looks Like a Sportscar]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

With the green initiative picking up speed inside the car market, hybrids and electric vehicles have never been more popular. The easiest way to tell just how popular hybrid vehicles are is the number of automakers who are jumping feet first into the field.

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MET Electic Car Sports 3 Wheels [MET Electric Plugin Is Tiny Three Wheel EV]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

Electric vehicles have had one heck of a surge in popularity over the last year and a half but one kind of EV that hasn’t been mined enough has been that of the three wheel variety. Yanko, an Asian car company has developed this three wheel electric plug-in vehicle to [...]

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Toyota Showing Off iQ EV Prototype With Promises Of Production Next Year [Toyota iQ EV To Start Production In 2012]

By on Friday, 18. February 2011

The electric vehicle field is one that is growing all the time thanks to people realizing that gas mileage, as well as electric vehicles really are the wave of the future. Where once only hybrids like the Prius existed in smaller quantities, there has been a concerted effort by many [...]

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Wind Explorer Wind Powered Car Completes Trip Across Australia [Eco-Friendly Car Runs on Mobile Wind Turbines & Lithium Batteries]

By on Wednesday, 16. February 2011

How would you feel about travelling roads across the land down under all for $16? This is just what the Wind Explorer team did with its pod-like wind-powered car.

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