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Takt – Symphony for Your Living Room

Single shake of the baton sets the mood of your living room at once!

IoT devices are so convenient that you already find lots of them in your room. Each one of the devices are very well thought to make our lifestyles better, but if there are too many of those working separately, you’ll find it pretty hard to make them under control…
What I wanted this time is to control those devices at a time to make the atmosphere that matches your certain feeling with one gesture. Just shake a baton like an orchestra conductor (or Harry Potter) to draw a certain shape in the air. The synced devices will respond to your gesture in a group. You know usually, for the romantic mood, you’ll need to play Barry White on the stereo a bit louder than usual, turn on dim light and the AC, etc., but with Takt, you just cast a spell with the stick.

Also, I didn’t want to make one of those remote controls that will eventually go missing under the piled magazines on the table. Takt stands up nicely so you never miss it!

High flexibility polycarbonate resin

Of course you can control one device to turn it on/off and adjust the volume, channels, etc.

Battery charger

Make the baton memorize your certain gestures. Your single shake of the baton sets the mood of your living room at once!

Won reddot design award: best of the best!

未分類, Design, concept

I won the red dot award: design concept 2013 and this time it’s ‘best of the best’ prize! The concept itself is the one I posted on this blog a few years ago, but I revised it based on some positive feedback from the readers for more practical use. I really appreciate everyone who helped this to happen. It’s now live on the red dot’s website.

Infographic Coins are a set of coins whose values are easily recognized by anyone. By utilizing shapes of pie graphs, which are widely used around the world by a variety of ages of people, one can instantly figure out how much these infographic coins are worth. One more important aspect of this concept is that by making the empty space in a pie chart, it saves the usage of materials, which is environmentally friendly.

If I have a chance, I want to mention the reason why I chose this kind of non-digital, old fashioned concept this time somewhere.

http://www.red-dot.sg/en/online-exhibition/concept/?code=808&y=2013&c=24&a=2

looking glass My previous work that won the red dot concept award in 2009

Cake Server Development Project

未分類, Design, cutlery

Project code name “Shiro”

It’s been quite a while since I thought of this cake server concept and from last year I started developing it with a great help from Mono-Lab Japan.

And here are the first photos of the first prototype made just with their 3D printer.
I’ll update the development progress here on my blog and Facebook, so be sure to check it out though the update will be very slow.

I’m thinking of bringing it to public using crowd funding some day.

Sora – Simple Clock Concept

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A clock for your desk.

There’s a magnet on the back of the clock, so it stays on the v-shaped stand.

The stand has 7 days printed on it.

Hide the other days with the clock so that only the day of today is revealed.

Only 3 days are printed on one side (I couldn’t arrange more than that), so how about using the back side of the stand for Sunday?

It’s a clock that changes its style every day.

Future AI Search?

未分類, search engine, concept, Google

Since Siri gives you clever replies, why not the same for search engines in their ‘suggest’ lines?

Futuristic Concept Mock-ups for Personal Exhibition

未分類, Gadget, technology, future, inspiration

I’m hoping to hold a personal exhibition in NY or somewhere else for my future concept designs I’ve made. Although the mock-ups are just non-working prototypes, it must be a lot of fun for people to see, feel and touch very futuristic devices that we dream of. With some 3D movies and cool animations, I believe lots of people will visit the exhibition.

(Photoshopped just a bit)

These are some of the first rough mock-ups I made last year. I was planning to bring them to Re:publica in Berlin for my speech there. However on the very same day when the first mock-ups arrived to my house on March 11th, the earthquake happened (I was miraculously at home waiting for the delivery), which caused catastrophic damages not only in this country but places all around the globe, and my business was also affected from it. So I had to hold the plan for some time. And now I’m restarting to make the dream come true.

They are the very first mock-ups and pretty roughly made, so it’s not the level to show anyone yet, but I hope you can picture what it will be like to hold it in your hand.

I’m now looking for a sponsor to make this dream come true. Contact me if you’re interested.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/12309496 w=400&h=265]

Works for Tokyo Motor Show 2011

未分類, Design, Gadget, technology, future, concept, car, lifestyle, mobility, transportation

As I tweeted, I worked on a lot of concept designs for the movies of AGC (Asahi Glass Company) and TOYOTA for Tokyo Motor Show 2011.

Movie by AGC: Glass Can Change The World

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/33200196]

Concept Car

Dashboard UI

Smart House

UI for Glass Fridge / Energy Management Pane

Roll-up Newspaper / Newspaper Graphic

Robot

Car Dashboard Mockup Panel Screens

It was my first time ever to design a car and a robot, but I had lots of fun making them.
Asahi Glass now introduces their great technologies in a booth for “Smart Mobility City 2011” in Tokyo Motor Show.
http://www.agc-smc2011.com/en/

TOYOTA Smart Mobility City 2011 Concept Movie

(I’ll post the movie when it’s officially uploaded on YouTube. This is the old version.)

One of my mobile phone concepts “Glassy Glass” was again picked up and used in the movie.

Dial to Unlock (Concept)

未分類, Design, iphone, technology, concept, mobile

Please email me if there’s anybody who wants to develop this app.
I have other more practical ideas waiting to be developed!

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Kaya – Future Microwave Oven Concept

未分類, technology, future, concept, augmented reality, diet, food

I’m not a cook, but I know what the food should be like for me to eat. I know it shouldn’t be burned or it should be defrosted. I just don’t know exactly how long it should be cooked. I wish there were a microwave oven like this that ‘shows” me what the food will be like after cooking.

But first, I wish a microwave oven was movable so that it could get close to the table when necessary.

Put a dish in it and this oven tells what kinds of foods are in it.

Adjust the ‘look’ of the food displayed on the glass by dragging the button. You can control the cooking time while looking at what it will be like after cooking the adjusted length of time. You’ll know exactly when it boils or burns.

Inspired by a dome tray when I was watching Ratatouille.

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Koriko – iPhone Dock Concept

未分類, apple, Design, Gadget, iphone, technology, future, concept, TUI

I want an iPhone dock that can change its forms reflecting various kinds of notifications needing attention as well as some simple controls for applications. The feelings you can get with that kind of tangible output & input are what touchscreen lacks.