There are always amazing new ideas being presented everyday to investors or research teams. The ideas that are fascinating to us are engaging in a process of creativity that adapts and evolves current technology. Taking existing items and using them in new ways. Here are a few that we've tracked down over the past quarter.
First Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of
technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design
Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted
touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential
for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
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Next from Nokia, a flexible phone. Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art "Design and The Elastic
Mind" exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly
advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. Innovation in a commodity product area is often difficult, investment in R&D battles with adding profit to the bottom line. This strategy is "leap frogging" today's smart phone and appealing to lifestyle and personal image. If technology based feature and functions are a given, will fashion and ergonomics be the next battle ground?
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Yum, I'm not sure what to add to the words of the designers; "Your car
device to the exhaust and back to drive. You'll have a
hamburger in no exhaust is a barbeque now. Stop the car when you
are hungry, install the time. This way you don't need fuel for cooking while commuting
and a large amount of energy would be saved." The car device was entered into the
Dining in 2015 competition held by Designboom, it didn't win.
Complete article.Finally, one from Canada for all you motorcycle enthusiasts. The unique Uno made its debut at the
2008
National Motorcycle Show in Toronto. Invented by 18-year old designer
J. Poss Gulak, The Uno is very hard to define or put into a category.
What is it exactly?
It's a 54.4 kg machine that has no other controls other than a power switch.
"To go forward you simply push your body weight
forward to tilt the machine. To back up, just lean back on the seat to tilt it
backwards and back it goes. The farther you lean, the faster it accelerates.
The gyro tells the ECU how much to accelerate and that in turn delivers the
proper amount of current to the electric motors" says MotorcycleMojo.com.
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