Designer Apostol Tnokovski has break free the good old PC from the shackles of the monotonous squares and rectangular shape with his newly designed wonder in a spherical shape. Christened as the E-Ball is nothing but just a 6-inch orb-shaped PC which is being heralded as “the smallest PC ever made.”

It is definitely small when it comes to the size but as they say all good things come in small packages, this tiny round PC is no exception. It is loaded with all features that you can only dream of to have in a regular PC. It comes packed with a projected keyboard and display.

It recognizes your fingers with the help of an IR sensor when you are typing at a particular place, while the mouse is a pop out wonder making this an exiting piece of technology. Apart from that, E-Ball works on a dual core processor, a 250 to 500GB HDD, 2GB of RAM, integrated graphic card and sound card, 2 x 50W speakers, HD-DVD recorder, laser keyboard, LAN and WLAN card, modem, webcam and an integrated LCD projector.

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Wanna do some real action on the roads just like your fav power packed superhero from movies? Check out this latest mean machine that transforms from a spacious tri-cycle o sleek and compact two wheeled jazzy bike whenever time and space constraint demands and that too just at the touch of a button. Just imagine your vehicle shrinking into a compact avatar at the brink of hitting a jam packed road.

For highway driving the Magic Tricycle designed by student Seyyed Javad Ghaffarian, comes on all three wheels, but the moment space becomes less the entire passenger cabin rotates, raising the third wheel in the air, that makes the blades to rise high and support the chassis stable. Even when it turns, the seats remain upright so you don’t have to fear a fall.

The flexible vehicle is designed particularly for Car Design News’ 2008 design contest.

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Coming from the brain of Poland’s Damian Kozlik is another variation of the good old watch called the ‘X-Watch’, which is an attempt to make a watch that can be used by the blind as much it is good for the sighted.
Though it looks a bit confusing in the first go, but when you get to know it comes to fore as an interesting thing. The rubber strap carries a number of LEDs behind graduated glass with extruded braille numbers that chris-cross to highlight and center the correct time.
Blind people just need to move a finger along the graduated watch glass, when he touches the highlighted panel, he will hear the sound.

How does it work?
Every segment of the watch glass works like separated touch switch. There are two solutions possible:
1. Every panel works like capacitance touch switch. It needs only one electrode to function. The electrode can be placed behind a panel. It works using body capacitance. When a person touches it, it increases the capacitance and triggers the sound.
2. Every panel works like resistance touch switch. This solution needs metal units to function. There are two thin pieces of metal on the each panel. It works by lowering the resistance between them. It is much simpler in construction compared to the first solution. Placing a finger across the metal units achieves a turn on the sound. Removing the finger from the metal pieces turns the sound off.

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The Rune Larsen show has designed a cool and innovative new cell phone with changing shapes concept. It is a clean and sleek design makes it best and first choice for any gadget lover. In this concept they include two layer of plastic, one layer is flexible and other one is hard with inside special liquid.

When this special liquid is pushed by user then they can form different shapes on its surface. This phone is capable to change its shape when you touch its touch screen, when it comes on market then I am sure it bring revolution in mobile industry.

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All the latest computer designs seems to lose their charm the moment you put your eye on this new concept of computer designing called the “B-membrane”. Designed by Korean designer Won-Seok Lee this one is truly a futuristic concept that does away with the need of having those big and bulky monitors taking space in your work area.

If there’s no monitor then what works here? It takes the omni directional projector technology to project your monitor on any surface that you like. Apart from the monitor, even the keyboard is no less than a treat in the Kubrick inspired ‘B-membrane’. It features a membrane touch sensitive keyboard that appears only when needed through the integrated optical drive. To make it all the more interesting, when the computer is not in use it can be used as an ambient light to produce beautiful feects on any surface that you like.

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It feels great to know that together with making leaps towards unmatched developments we are not forgetting to work for cause and keep coming up with innovations to make the lives of the less-deprived better by great degrees!

The ‘Sens’ phone designed by Takumi Yoshida is a step in this direction only. You must be wondering, how come a phone without a screen! But, this one is as it’s for those who can barely sense the numbers on the keys. The ’sens phone’ is designed for the nearly blind. The lighted sides on the phone help them get various alert messages, while the keys feature those standards “blind man’s dimple” to make dialling and easier attempt for them.

Not just this, the keyboard arrangement here features more tactile keys that are not just easily distinguishable but also help them interact with the device. The ’sens phone comes to fore as an intelligent design that highlights and harnesses the more usable features and eliminates the less or nearly not usable features like the screen.

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Delicate, transparent, elegant, subtle and classy are a few adjectives that we usually associated with a fine creation of glass. How about loading it with a great deal of technology, unique and intelligent designing and an equally intelligent concept to make a dazzling glass keyboard?
Yes, check out Kong Fanwen’s ‘No-key Keyboard’ and you’ll know what we are talking about. When flat-surface is spinning the world with every other cellphone, TV or ipod going flat, the no-key keyboard is another step towards the flat and touch-screen revolution but in something like a keyboard which was never thought of being ‘key-less’!

This one is the world’s first flattest full size QWERTY keyboard to date that features just a glass surface, camera and lighting! Yes, the all new alternative keyboard concept will be be packed with the latest motion capture technology to sense and watch your fingers pressing the keys to key-in just the right messages!
I just can’t imagine typing on a keyboard without even pressing the keys! Must say- the power of touch is working well! Though, other creations in the world of keyboards including the giant keyboard or the mobile keyboard were no less impressive.
Via: Yankodesign

The ORB or the Time Orbit Watch, which is actually just a concept as of now 9and also in the near future I suppose) makes time a fashion concept rather than a basic necessity.

Yes, designed by DjoDjo, the ORB delivers time in a unique and also hard to understand unconventional manner. It features rotating coloured lines instead of the hands representing time. Wanna adjust your watch? Just dragged or push the lines by your hand and there you are all set to play with time in your ORB watch.

No doubts the ORB looks trendy at a glance, but looks suitable only for the female users. Available in black and white colours the watch is perfect accessory to complement any trendy outfit but comes no close to a traditional watch that’s simple enough to tell the straight forward tale of time.
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Somebody like me who spends most of the time sitting upright before the workstation definitely deserve something as comfortable and ergonomically designed workstation as the Surf Chair workstation that gives me the perfect posture to work keeping my back in the right shape.

Designed by Kenneth Lylover, the Surf Chair has everything that a geek can only dream of to have a pain free Internet surfing. Conjured particularly keepingin mind the ‘Internet Collection’ of the Scandinavian Furniture Fair the Surf Chair features pillows fixed at various points in the seat and back to ensure a comfy surfing, while the screen is suspended at precisely the right angle in accordance to your back and neck.

The only drawback that I could find was that due to the unavailability of space, the keyboard is supposed to be kept on the lap by the user. No wonders it managed to beg the ‘Best Product’ award in the fair and is worthy enough to be tagged as a luxury gadget for a luxury loving geek.

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Renting out bicycles for public usage is no new thing. But devising a complete automated and unmanned bike rental kiosk like system is definitely a novel idea. Ubicycle public bicycle service, thought by design firm Continuum, the Hundred Dollar Laptop project people the bike rental system definitely comes to fore as a promising one.

These kiosks will be powered by solar panel roofs and RFID-embedded Smart cards to keep a track of users and security purposes. Not just the RFId tags, but also the unique green colour of the bikes will not let thieves fly away or ride freely on these bikes.

The fact that the bikes can be rented with your good old public transportation card makes them all the more convenient to use and access. He kiosks will be available through out the city so that you can drop the bicycle at the point nearest to your destination.

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