Inspiration and creation of Mac Funamizu
A xylophone meets a pitcher.
Listen to the pitch of the sound made when the pitcher is hit. Compare it with the pitch of the handle (working as a tuning bar) to know if the pitcher is empty or not.
That way you won’t bother to open the lid while having fun.
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I’m back! Thank you so much for all the get-well messages and comments. As I wrote on Twitter, the operation went OK and I’m 90% back to normal. I drew some sketches in my Moleskine while I was in the hospital, and this is one of them.
This 3D hologram video just makes me want to have a desktop like this.
When you’re not using it, it works as a desk lamp.
Bring the black curtain down so that the hologram can be seen more clearly in front of you.
There are tiny projectors installed, giving off 3D hologram in front of the curtain.
A browser window can be resized by actually “pinching” and dragging the tab at bottom right.
It would be fun if a document could be made as if you were using a typewriter. The curled paper hologram comes out of the keyboard.
Touching the 3D objects would be really fun. Dragging, throwing, resizing, etc., but crushing paper to dispose it would be the most interesting.
You have to adjust the “depth” of the cursor on screen, so how about a mouse like this? By pressing the mouse body downwards, the cursor sinks (goes deeper) on screen. When you release it, it goes back to the default position (front).
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See also a related post.
Finally I was in time for the calendar wallpaper entry for Smashing Magazine.
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And this is another version exclusively for this blog.
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Is this possible?
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One announcement.
Next week I’ll have to have an operation and stay in the hospital for about a week. So I won’t be able to introduce something new here for some time (although my Moleskine will be filled with rough sketches).
The next post is already done and will be live on August 1st at the earliest, so please come back and check it out.
I’ll see you guys soon!
I use black and white pepper mixed almost every time I want pepper on my food, but sometimes I want only either of them. So how about a pepper mill like this? You can use it with one hand and choose black, white or mixed.
You can also save some space on the table for a little salt container you can put on top of the mill.
And I posted my sketches of this mill in Flickr.
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Is there a screensaver that makes you look busy working on the computer (but you’re not).
Then you can take a nap at a desk without being noticed if you are holding a mouse in your hand. I want one.
The cursor is constantly moving as if you were working on something.
You can choose how busy you want yourself to look and what you’re doing on the computer.
This is pretty simple and may have been already used somewhere.
Put the colored magnet on the map and use the corresponding colored short hand.
There’s no am/pm indicator and it will look crammed and hard to tell the time with more than 3 hands.
For 30-minute time zones, use this +1/2 hand.
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Sorry for the slow update. In June we have a rainy season in Japan, so the theme is water this time.
Those who see my Twitter might have already heard, but I was really really sick for more than a week with the severest-ever pain that lasted for a few days. The doctor told me to stop working too hard and to take it easy for a while. Recently I’ve been talked to by many people for very interesting projects and I had never been so busy in my life in the last few months. (Come to think of it, I also took part in some design competitions.) But I decided to get relaxed with much fewer projects than now. (I just remember that a designer also needs some white space in her life.) So please forgive me for declining some of the offers.
Unfortunately, there were a few people I’ve contacted for one project who took advantage of my designs, which I won’t elaborate on, so it might be a good timing to slow down.
This is the second idea I submitted for a future mobile design competition held last month. The theme was “Design the mobile phone of 2020″.
The technology of holography is progressing day by day. In 10 years, I hope it will have already been developed for mass production and will of course used in our mobile phones. The area conventionally used for a display in a mobile phone will no longer need to be a screen with 3D projecters. Instead, it could be a hole, which allows another useful purposes.
At the same time, the materials used for the outer body of a mobile phone will become softer and softer. By successfully combine those attributes, there could be a mobile phone with a flexible vacant frame, which projects hologram in the vacant area.
When you have it in your hand, you can use it just as a conventional mobile phone except for the fact that what you see is 3D holography!
Because its frame area is flexible enough to let your wrist go through the hole, you can wear it around your wrist. A quick phone answering can be done while you are wearing it.
3D projectors are located inside the flexible frame, which project dramatic holography.
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