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GMEA, first-ever real game phone
Juniper Foo | May 15, 2006
Having a movable keypad will really screw up your SMS texting sequence. But once again, the GMEA is an unexpected idea from Dima Komissarov's bottomless bag of ideas. The Russian designer has turned the handset's keypad into a version of your popular sliding tile puzzle game, where you have to rearrange the order of the numbers 1 to 15 on a 16-squared field. Similarly, shuffle the name "GMEA" around, and you'll get the picture.
See how it works here
Price: N.A.
Availability: Pending patent
Device: Game phone
Basic specs: N.A.
C'ALL future phone
Juniper Foo | Apr 24, 2006
Think Victorinox's Swiss Army Card Knife Kit, and you're close to what Russian designer Dima Komissarov has dreamt up with his C'ALL handset. Simply imagine an all-in-one card phone that does just about everything, from video calls to MP3 player, to GPS, to car keys, a camera, remote control, and even credit /discount card. Did we also mention that it can double as both a portable Mac and PC? Komissarov has also thrown in fingerprint biometrics for good security measure. Of course, all that amazing goodness is still in the realm of sci-fi right now. But like Star Trek's Holodeck, we just hope this will be during our lifetime.
See as camera phone | video phone | Mac | credit card | GPS
Price: N.A.
Availability: Prototype by Dima Komissarov
Device: Futuristic phone
Basic specs: 54 x 85.6mm
Flash drives with micro pump
Juniper Foo | Apr 21, 2006
Here's a hoot from Russian designer Dima Komissarov. Probably borrowing from the idea of our friendly pufferfish and even the Reebok Pump, these Flashbags literally swell up with the amount of data they take on. Just like that, you can estimate with the naked eye how much more information you can dump into your USB drive. Now why didn't anyone think of this sooner?
More inflatable Flashbag series from Komissarov's idea bag:
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Via CNET News.com
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Availability: Still pending patent
Device: USB flash drive
Basic specs: N.A.
Square-eyes
Juniper Foo | Apr 20, 2006
The Brunel Design awards are here again with great invention ideas that push the envelope. So whatever happened to the class of 2005? At least one held great promise last year when British undergrad Gillian Swan presented a devious concept to combat growing obesity among kids. Called Square-eyes, it's a reward scheme where the more steps one takes, the more TV time one earns. The insoles are embedded with sensors and record the number of steps taken daily. These are then beamed back to a base station via radio signals, and the tally displayed on an LCD screen. Here's what's even more sneaky. Once tube time runs out, the TV automatically switches off until more steps are tallied up. It pays to be a gal here since Swan targeted 12,000 steps for girls and 15,000 for boys. For the record, every 100 steps recorded by the Square-eyes shoes equals precisely 1 minute of TV time.
See the insole upclose | base station
Price: N.A.
Availability: Prototype displayed at the Brunel Design
Device: Shoe insoles
Basic specs: N.A.
The remote control bagel
Juniper Foo | Jan 09, 2006
A.k.a. one darn cool-looking remote, the space-agey Loop from Hillcrest Labs is really a free-space controller. Great for impressing guests when you start waving and pointing the Loop in the air a la David Copperfield, and voila, things happen. Well, mostly on the TV screen that is. There are just two buttons and a scroll wheel, and according to the CNET team at CES 2006, Hillcrest Labs has designed an onscreen user interface that's both simple and intuitive, with an interface that zooms in and out as you move between categories and directories.
See the Loop upclose
Price: N.A.
Availability: Work in progress
Device: Pointer-based remote controller
Basic specs: Spontaneous navigation software
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