Saturday, September 4, 2010

‘Concept Designs’ News

The Nokia Kinetic Mobile Phone that Erects Itself When Called or Messaged

The Nokia Kinetic Mobile Phone that Erects Itself When Called or Messaged

Monday, July 19, 2010 11:43

Designed by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins, the Kinetic concept gradually stands to a vertical position to let you know visually that your phone is ringing or that you have a new text message. It would work using an electromagnet in the ...

The Crazy PixCell Mobile Phone

The Crazy PixCell Mobile Phone

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 15:03

Resolutely standing in the face of a smartphone future, KDDI continues to offers surprisingly sexy flip phones like the new PixCell via Prismoid artist edition prototype. Designed by Japanese artist Kohei Nawa, the "pixcell" mobile phone is a concept he came ...

20 Best Of Best Gadget Red Dot Product Design Winners

20 Best Of Best Gadget Red Dot Product Design Winners

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 14:39

Red Dot Design Awards has just announced their Product Design winners. Here is a pick of my favorite 20 of the 45 “Best Of Best” winners, in totally random order. Creative industrial/product design is at ...

New Braille Mobile Phone for the Blind

New Braille Mobile Phone for the Blind

Friday, July 2, 2010 16:41

We’ve posted news on several mobile phones for the blind here on ixplora now researchers at the National Institute of Design in Bangalore, India have developed a new Braille telephone for the visually impaired. The telephone includes the ability to store telephone numbers and other ...

What Today's Mobile Phones and Gadgets Would look like in the 1970's?

What Today’s Mobile Phones and Gadgets Would look like in the 1970′s?

Monday, June 21, 2010 15:03

What would have happened if you could have had an iPod, a laptop or a mobile phone all the way back in 1977? Designer Alex Varanese decided to go back in time with his modern gadgets to see what life might have been back some 30+ years ago, but with today’s ...

Android Mobile Based Coffee Machine

Android Mobile Based Coffee Machine

Sunday, June 20, 2010 16:40

This thing makes coffee and spits out music. What more do you want? What more COULD you want? More? Alright well you’re in luck because this “Appresso” device does all that you want. It’s Android based. That means it’s ...

Samsung Proxima Phone Wristwatch

Samsung Proxima Phone Wristwatch

Monday, June 14, 2010 15:00

This stylish concept isn’t so simple as it looks at the first glance. This is LED wristwatch and phone at the same time. It was created by industrial designer from California Johan Loekito. As it was noticed ...

Hand Grenade Mobile Phone

Hand Grenade Mobile Phone

Monday, June 14, 2010 13:43

Yes, I’ll admit, it is an extreme attention getter. But a mobile phone shaped like a grenade? There are just so many things wrong with this idea that I don’t even want to go there. Via impactlab

LG Mobile Phones Announces Winners of 3rd Annual Design the Future Competition

LG Mobile Phones Announces Winners of 3rd Annual Design the Future Competition

Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:06

LG announced the winners of its 3rd Annual Design the Future Competition.  The ideation competition challenged participants to create a mobile phone concept to define the future of mobile communication.  By partnering with crowdSPRING, more than 400 designs were submitted ...

The Ultimate 3D Mobile Phone

The Ultimate 3D Mobile Phone

Monday, June 7, 2010 12:38

Focusing on the use of 3D in mobile phones, Petr Kubik has designed this all-in-one-piece that includes the glasses, intuitive stylus and expandable screens. The 3D apps support 3D movies and camera plus allow you to make surreal ...