petfrog

If there's one word to describe your next smart device, it's "ribbit". Design house Frog Design has leapfrogged into the future of mobile computing with its concept petfrog, which touts itself as "the first wireless communication and computing concept with a totally integrated hardware, software, and content user interface". In simple speak, that's an "everything also have" communicator, including karaoke player thrown in for good measure. Step aside, Kermit.

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Price: N.A.
Availability: About two years down the road
Device:: Concept integrated fusion device
Basic specs: N.A.

Lightning Reaction

Here's a game that will really hurt to lose. Cooked up by the sadistic team at Jumpin' Banana, it's fastest finger wins. Except you don't score a chance to try your luck at the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire pot. Instead, this multi-tentacled fiend--looking like something right out of Doc Octopus' lab--delivers a nasty zap to the unlucky player who's the last to hit the button on his trigger. Seems the bloodthirsty makers have been at it again, recently giving the Laser Tag a whole new pain threshold. Your can check out this latest shocker here.

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Price: US$30
Availability: Shocking Fun
Device:: Party game with a twist
Basic specs: N.A.

Yamano 61-key Hand Roll Piano

More fabric-ated gadgets, this time in the shape of the Hand Roll Piano. Yamano (not to be confused with Yamaha) has quite literally rolled out a 61-key version of its silicon rubber-based piano which you can wrap up like a hand roll and carry with you. This lightweight instrument packs a 1kg lugging weight and is wafer thin at just 2.8cm. Sound comes out of the speaker on the right panel which also houses the batteries. If you're not terribly fussy about tinkering with real ivories, this porta piano should offer you an anywhere, anytime musical fix.

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Price: 19,740 yen (US$183) for 61-key version; 14,490 yen (US$134) for 49-key model
Availability: Yamano
Device: Music instrument
Basic specs: 102.5 x 18.5 x 2.8cm, 1kg, 20 built-in tunes, headphone external speaker output terminal, silicon rubber, ABS resin, AC adapter pouch

Euphori-Lock

Well, we know that this won't stop some people. But ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's combination lock, which slips around the tub's upper lid, also works to keep your Cherry Garcia from roommates with long fingers. What can we say? Everyone needs one of these.

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Price: US$5.50
Availability: Ben & Jerry's
Device:: Food accessory
Basic specs: N.A.

gelfrog

Watch out, Apple. Here comes gelfrog. Looking like something right out of Mars Attacks! ("We come in peace") with its green elastic outer "skin", the organic-looking notebook utilizes super-pliable elastomer to act as a smart skin. The result: An almost durable yet lightweight device that won't be toast if you drop it. The clever folks at Frog Design have factored in chameleon-like functions that include the gelfrog acting as a mobile mirror, a photo slideshow, a video projector, and even running a cloning algorithm that scans the user's outfit and re-projects a matching and complementary pattern. Now when can we get one?

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Price: N.A.
Availability: Concept, read more about it here
Device:: Smart notebook concept
Basic specs: N.A.

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