January 2011 – Mac Funamizu Design Blog

Klipp — Future Camera Concept

未分類, Gadget, technology, future, concept, camera

I was really impressed with the WVIL camera shown in CES 2011 and I’m very much inspired by the concept. I was wondering what it would be like if there were a WVIL for amateurs. So I made it smaller and thinner. The lens has a clip on its back so that you can place it on various places. No matter where you clip it, the lens sends the images to the screen wirelessly.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/19156644]

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ABook — iPad app design

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Last year I had a chance to work on the design for an iPad app “ABook” (A as a letter “A”) and its related products. ABook is an iPad application that helps you create and distribute multi-media contents for the iPad very easily. With ABook you don’t need expensive softwares or skills.

Here I introduce what I did.

The app logo: “books” as “cloud”

App screen samples

Website managing multi-media contents

Power Point brochure

Thank you, AgenTec!

ABook
http://www.agentec.jp/product/abook.html

Peel –Moving Notifier Concept

未分類, Design, Gadget, technology, future, concept

Basically it’s a clock.

It’s wirelessly connected to your PC and mobile phone; your calendar, schedule, email account are synced.
You get a notification with a peeled screen on a face.

The more serious the thing is, the wider it’s peeled.

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Fake Hook Lock

未分類, Design, concept

This hook does NOT actually prevent the rotation of the handle. It’s just a slide-type lock.

When the door is locked, it really looks like it is.

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Thru –Lucent Mobile Phone Concept

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Just like some of my previous mobile phone concepts, the transparent body would be pretty attractive.

What’s different this time though is that this Thru has a function to show 3D images behind the screen. It looks as if there were another world behind it because the images are made to look natural on the floor behind the screen.

So the email notification would be made like a game, which sounds fun.

There could be a fierce battle on your desk. In any case, I’m pretty sure it would be so fun that you couldn’t stop watching it.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/18835228]

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TOYOTA Smart Center 20XX

未分類, Design, Gadget, future, concept, mobile

It’s such an honor that one of my future mobile phone concepts “Glassy Glassy” is in the TOTOTA official near future mobility life short movie!

It was aired on January 1st 2011 and you can see the movie on YouTube and GAZOO.

It depicts a smart life of a middle aged man in the near future.

I worked on this project last year and have been really excited to be able to get involved. Initially I was planning to design many other objects and gadgets in the movie (including the car), but this and that happened and the mobile phone was finally left in the end. But I’m really happy to see my concept ‘alive’ in a movie like this.

It’s been such a pleasure to be involved in projects of big-name brands such as TOYOTA and SOFTBANK. I’m hoping to have more chances to work as “concept artist”.

View it on YouTube

FiiL – Post-Touchscreen Interface Concept

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Future TUI (Tangible User Interface) mobile phone. This is a post-Looking Glass concept; I’m thinking this type of user interface will be commercialized after touchscreen hopefully within a few decades.

As matter of fact, Looking Glass has two sequels in my head.

Looking Glass –> FiiL –> ???

I’ll make a post of the 3rd concept after I make a few that introduce more application examples of FiiL.

Basically this is a touchscreen, but this mobile phone lets you “feel” what you’re touching. The flexible screen surface makes z-axis movements and takes shapes of buttons, switches and so on.