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Turn your iPhone into a desktop

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I was amazed to see how Microsoft’s Play Anywhere works!
That technology could also be applied to something like this, I guess.

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Putting on more makeup than yesterday or not?

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What if your mirror remembers how exactly you looked like when you had a perfect makeup?
Capture your face so that you can compare with it later.

touch screen mirror with image capture

With a few webcams, you can see yourself from back, right and left.

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Future of Internet Search: Mobile version

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(Followed by a previous post “Future of Internet Search“)
This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.

Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the building.
Well, it doesn’t have to be a building, but it can be any object you see. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc. etc. But as a designer myself, I hope it’s able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on.

It’s got a scanner built in, so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in the newspaper, book, magazine, etc.

It would be much easier to read a real book. You can use the dictionary, wikipedia, thesaurus and anything else available on the web. What do you think?

I won the red dot design concept award for this.

Also visit the later series of this gadget.

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″

Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”

See also the iPhone version of this concept.

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iPhone-sized handy scanner

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Would be another helpful bridge between physical and digital world. The touch screen would make this kind of device work much more intuitively.

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Luminous Ring

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Upload New Posts/Photos At A Time

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I’m kind of new to this social networking services, so I’m not sure if there’s a service like this already. What I’m thinking is to upload a new blog post or a photo/image to multiple services AT A TIME FROM THE DESKTOP. Drag and drop the file from the desktop to this application, choose what to do to it, like upload, edit or delete (cancel). You can add the options to multiple services and upload it at a time. I’m skipping all the possible small glitches to adjust, but I hope you get the image of it.

That way, you can visually understand which file/post goes to which services.

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Microwave + MP3 = ?

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If a microwave has MP3 tunes of certain length, say 1 min, 3 min, 5 min, etc., you know WHEN the waiting will be over without looking at the tiny time panel. (The tunes have to be your familiar ones, of course.) And you can have fun cooking!

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