Inspiration and creation of Mac Funamizu
umbrella stand + pendulum toy
It swings your umbrella to drain off the water.
Wring the towel and dry it in the sun after using it.
See animation (at the bottom of the page)
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The longest blank since I started this blog! I have some better ideas (than the one below) drawn in my Moleskine, but there’s no time to draw 3D to show here. So here’s one that could be rendered relatively fast.
If a very light material could be used for the light, a desktop lamp of this width might be possible.
For controlling the area to be lit, use the “pinch” gesture on the UI screen.
To turn up the light, draw a circle clockwise. For turning down, do it counter-clockwise.
Also visit the other series of this gadget.
User Interface Concept: Air Conditioner
User Interface Concept: Light Switch
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How about a USB memory stick that looks hungry when there’s no data in it?
The inflated belly means the memory is full.
This one is different from the other previous ones.
Plug it in a USB port and start pumping it, then on the screen, the icon scatters what’s in it.
The harder you pump, the farther the icons travel.
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Maybe I’m into projector concepts.
It’s an iPhone stand with a transparent touch screen, speaker and projector.
Dock your iPhone at the top.
Tilt it slowly to either side and your photos, songs or movies start running one after another at random like water coming out from a fountain. Each image will disappear in a few seconds. You can touch a photo to see it, a movie to play and a music icon to play the song.
Now turn up the faucet and when the dish is full, the images will be spilled on the floor, which are actually projection from the stand. You can also tilt the stand to spill images little by little to a certain direction.
And now you can play with larger images.
When you play music, you can see the visualizer working. Spill the visualizer on the floor and you see “full-screen” projected visualizer!
Behind the scenes on my Flickr.
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One more thing I said I was going to tell is that some of the images of my mobile phone concept were on National Geographic Channel!
It’s “Super Diamonds” of Naked Science series.
By the way, I just bought a bag online that I fell in love at the first sight and it arrived yesterday! It’s a GORGEOUS BAG!
I’m planning to get a macbook air and carry it in the bag, but I wasn’t sure about the size. If you’re interested, please visit my Flickr page, where I (just started to) upload my everyday scene photos.
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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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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It may help you find your wine glass easily.
By biting off a part of the cheese, you can make it more original.
Don’t Move My Cheese by Mac Funamizu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 Japan License.
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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