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Snowcorn: Another Sixth Sense Device Concept

未分類, Design, Gadget, technology, future, concept, inspiration, fashion, transportation

It took a few days to render these images and while I was rendering them, I was surprised to see this demo at TED. The concept is almost identical! How nice!

Mine’s a bracelet like flexible device with a camera, a projector and Wifi installed. You can also put it on anywhere on your cloth around your chest or neck.

The transparent part is a screen to show basic function or the time. Customize it with the colors and style you like.
Complicated controls can be done in the projected UI.

Scan a business card to add the person’s name and other information to your address book through wifi.

Translate a word/phrase you’re not familiar with in a book.

Look for a way to get to a station on a train map.

There could be a lot more ways to use this device, so I’ll make the posts later.

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Train Ceiling as Info Screen?

未分類, Design, technology, future, concept, transportation

I want a navigation screen on a train that shows the exact location where the train is, not just “It’s now between station A and station B”.
It should also be seen clearly from almost everywhere even if the train is crowded. (In Tokyo it’s almost impossible for a stranger to know where she is on a crowded train if she misses one announcement.)
Is it the ceiling that is the most visible?

By the way, I’m now designing the calendar wallpaper for this month. Sorry for being late!

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Twitter Tweets on TV?

未分類, concept, inspiration, blogging, SNS, twitter

How about a TV with a Tweet-showing function?

Don’t Move My Cheese

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It may help you find your wine glass easily.

By biting off a part of the cheese, you can make it more original.

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Sign Language Interpreter

未分類, Design, Gadget, technology, future, concept, inspiration, lifestyle, mobile

The camera captures the motion image of the speaker’s hand gesture. It translates it into an oral language and gives out the translated words.

(the camera capturing the image)

You can pre-choose what kind of voice you’d like it to speak in. I’ll pick up tat of George Clooney’s. 🙂

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Sketches

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Before going to a new item, I dug a few sketches from my Moleskine.

a bookshelf made of a single wooden board

a desk made of a single wooden board

Mitsubishi and two other Japanese firms invented this foliage plant-like solar cell module by using organic thin-film solar cells. I thought it would be nice if there’s something good to look at and environmentally friendly in your room like this.

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Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired

未分類, Design, Gadget, future, concept, inspiration, augmented reality

Speech balloons in comic books show very well how the characters speak. If we could instantly visualize how people speak, wouldn’t it be nice for the hearing-impaired? It means they can SEE our voices.

Stressed words are rendered larger than those spoken less loudly.

Arrows of the balloons show from where it’s spoken (of course).

A scream is shown in a balloon with jags.

Imitation sounds are also rendered, but with other colors than spoken words.

When spoken to from out of the screen, it shows the words with the direction the voice is from.

A pair of glasses with the same functions could replace the device if we could figure out a good way not to block visual information.

Also visit the other series of this gadget.

Part1:”Future of Internet Search: Mobile version”

Part2:”Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications”

Part3:”Look at What You Don’t See Through Glass”

Part4:”Future of Mobile Search for Diet”

Part5:”Future of Mobile Search- Search Beyond Time”

Part6:”Future of Mobile Search- Power of Visualization”

Part7:”Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1″

See also the iPhone version of this concept.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

未分類, Design, inspiration, 3D, wallpaper

Here’s a little something for you, ladies.
I always appreciate your positive and encouraging comments especially for my desktop wallpaper designs. Thank you so much!!!

Hope you like it.

Horizon

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If we can build flexible OLED like this, we won’t have to worry about what size of a monitor you’ll buy any more.

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Lifenote Personal Tablet

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Now I can tell one of the announcements I mentioned at the end of 2008.

Lifenote is an innovative technology development company based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 2008 by two UCLA graduates who dreamed of a world free from paper clutter, and a learning environment that is more intuitive, productive, and collaborative.
They approached me for help in 3D molding last year, and I helped out mainly with the 3D mock designs, initial modeling and rendering of the Lifenote Personal Tablet, which is specialized for digital writing and viewing electronic documents. They were in CES 2009 to introduce this tablet as well as other great products, so some of you who visited CES might have known it already.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun creating mock designs of a REAL gadget. I hope I can do it again.

Please note that the copyright belongs to Lifenote, not me. So if you want to use the above image/s, please contact Lifenote.