Festo, an international developer of automation technology, has designed and created Airacuda, a remote controlled pneumatically driven fish. Following its biological model in shape, movement, and in design, the Airacuda is propelled by a mechanical fin drive. Two fluidic muscles ...
Designer Kyle Cherry has introduced a new concept laptop, named Canvas. The Canvas is similar in size to an A3 folio page and is envisioned as a computer for designers and artists. Besides its unusual design, the Canvas has several ...
The Korean Company Unichal recently unveiled a new device called Dixau, which helps readers to improve their understanding of written texts. The device captures images of difficult words, transfers them to a nearby computer (with preloaded software), and applies them ...
Ambient Corporation has demonstrated a “voiceless” phone call. The call was made using a neckband called Audeo, which translates thoughts into speech by intercepting nerve signals. Although the device’s recognition abilities are currently limited to 150 words, is the company ...
Designer Sung-kyu Nam has built a new concept product, combining the desktop table with the personal computer. Nam named his creation DesCom, a combination of the words ‘desk’ and ‘computer’. Samsung hopes to manufacture the DesCom. Most designers’ concept products ...
A team of researchers at Monash University in Australia and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a process that cause keratins to self clean and protect themselves from UV degradation. Keratins are a type of natural protein and the ...
The digital musical instrument TENORI-ON was designed by Yamaha and media artist Toshio Iwai. This 16×16 matrix of LED switches offers a wide variety of performance capabilities. The device features six performance modes, and nine different scales. It has MIDI ...
Nokia, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, recently unveiled the Morph concept at The Museum of Modern Art in New-York. The Morph is featured in the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May ...
Momenta, a concept neck worn PC, is one of the entries in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition. This innovative necklace is designed to capture one’s most memorable moments by using bio-feedback triggers. When you get emotional, your heart rate increases ...
Mr. Du Tran Nguyen, from the Monash University in Australia, is one of the students competing at this year’s Australian Design Awards contest. His concept of an innovative sports glove, called Vie, is designed to take human performance to the ...