Portable Interactive Display
The Portable Interactive Display doesn’t have a catchy name but the student concept does provide a solution to architects and others involved in building design. The concept provides a way for professionals to take all their (digital) building plans and discuss them anywhere.
The suitcase form factor which contains all the components to create an interactive touch surface on any sufficiently large and bright table. A ultra short throw projector provides a 60″ projection on virtually any bright surface, combined with a vision based tracking system this allows touch inputs to be detected on the same surface.
The software provided on the interactive display is programmed to take images and CAD drawings (and also 3D objects eventually) and displays this on the surface. The content can be freely manipulated with natural gestures and allows annotation (drawing, notes) as well.
Sounds almost like a very specific application of
Microsoft’s Surface table but in a portable package.
Designer: Hiep Truong
Portable Large Interactive Display Concept from Hiep Truong on Vimeo.
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Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts
Apparently when it was suggested to build a Home Computer, the trade analysts predicted that there would be a demand for only 2 PCs a year. Times have flown and look where we are now! In a family of four with modest means, we own 2 desktops and 2 Laptops! The point is, we have seen many creative concepts in laptops and PCs on YD over the years. Agreed many are farfetched, but dreaming big is a part of the creative process. Here is a look at Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts that we hope get realized.
10) MacBook Touch by Tommaso Gecchelin
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Highlights: flexibility in form-factor via iSpine technology, flexible OLED screen, and Magic Dock that externalize ports to keep the appearance clean.
9) HP LiM (Less is More) Concept by Jeffrey S. Engelhardt
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Highlights: use of Bamboo fabric across the aluminum frame of the PC, 19″ transparent touch OLED screen along with a wireless keyboard, virtual trackpad.
8 ) Evolve Modular CPU by Vas Obeyesekere of Point Innovation
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Highlights: transforms between mobile and home computing configurations and can expand or contract its module based components to meet any user’s needs.
7) Mac Folder by Tryi Yeh
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Highlights: a re-worked User Interface that resembles the iPod Touch or iPhones’, super-slim multi-touch screen.
6) Dual Screen Computer by Yong-Seong Kim
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Highlights: a large slot behind the LCD display that can accommodate the notebook thus allowing you to use it as a desktop, notebook’s screen transforms into a second display in portrait mode.
5) Canvas by Kyle Cherry
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Highlights: designed for those in the creative arts fields, offers a wide are for workspace.
4) The Napkin PC by Avery Holleman
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Highlights: Uses e-ink and RF technology, designed for group collaborations, has pens like modules that transmit info to the base station PC, processed info is displayed on the napkin which is actually e-ink paper.
3) Book Laptop by Kyle Bean
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Highlights: it showcases the trend that we have become so dependent on technology and the virtual world, that we have forgotten about the REAL one that we live in.
2) B-membrane by Won-Seok Lee
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Highlights: built-in projector that removes the need for a separate monitor, a membrane keyboard that appears when needed, integrated optical drive, projector can beam ambient lights.
1) Sony Vaio Zoom Notebook Concept by Eno Setiawan
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Highlights: thin glass form factor, touchscreen holographic technology, screen is completely transparent and the keyboard goes opaque when switched off.
Self-Aware All-Sports Steady-Cam
Not quite on the level of chwarzenegger or Optimus Prime, but it’s getting there. The Chasercam intelligent sports-camera comes basically in two parts: the camera (with base), and the sensor target. When activated, the camera turns on it’s base and up and down, seeking in all directions the sensor target. What you do is stick one to the person doing the tricks, and one to the person who is chasing the person doing the tricks. Total coverage!
Gotta strive for total coverage. You can’t exactly do that too well with the head-cams of today, where whenever you, the film person, have to watch where YOU are going on your own bike, or skateboard, or snowboard, etc. – you’ll be crashin! Now you haven’t got to worry about that!
With the camera base sitting on top of your head, the camera seeks automatically – and in a steady manner – the target. The target, safely attached to the athlete, is a sure shot for where the action is.
Designer:
Bastian Albinus
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Design Submissions 101: More is Good
Giant Trucks Are No Longer Scary
Behold! The Power of Refraction
Yes! You’ve heard of it in your historical legend class teachings, but you’ve never thought it could be harnessed again in our time! But it has been! The refraction of light, my friend, the very harnessing of waves of brightness through awesome, awesome science. What we’ve got here is an installation proving the power of refraction yet again, this time with singles and bunches of LED lights and laser-cut acrylic to lead the way.
Ruth McDermott, show us!
Behind curtain number one we’ve got history!
In the 18th century in particular, candles were mounted in magnificent candelabra and chandeliers which amplified the light through lead crystal drops cut into prismatic shapes. These designs were based on the principles of reflection, refraction and diffusion which were first written about by Newton and Huygens around 1690.
Behind curtain number two we’ve got factoids!
This project is titled “Isis Sea Fan” The Isis Sea Fan is named after the organic forms it mymics, (sea fans: soft tendrilled coral,) to create a connection between technology and natural forms. As for materials; the material that appears to be glass is actually laser cut optically clear acrylic.
Behind the third curtain we’ve got what I’ve got to say!
These are just shiny as all getout, and I think it would be fantastic to see an entire 2 story wall full of these, refracting and refracting, all the way up and down, side to side on the wall.
Surfaces, Surfaces, Surfaces
This Anti-Theft For Bike Relies On Good Samaritans
Split Snowboard Binding Backs
Snowboard bindings? What! It’s getting into summer when I’m posting this, so it’s a bit strange to even think about snow – but hay! Like a good Minnesotan, in summer I wish for winter, and in winter I wish for summer! These bindings are split down the back, adjusting the cant of the high back for “greater support and control.” Better for your ankles? Better for your mind. But you can’t be too furry! It’ll get caught in there.
Better Than Your Desk بهترین میز کامپیوتر برای شما
A desk made for utilitarian efficiency that isn’t ugly, go figure! The Novanta workstation is some beauty, even if I think it’s a bit chunky. The MDF, aluminum and perforated metal SCREAM “only Macs please” but a ***ier PC like the HP Touchsmart could probably move in without ruffling the neighbors too much. Drawers aside, there’s a bevy of features you won’t find elsewhere – namely the integrated speaker grills and the illuminated tabletop perfect for lightbox work.
Other features include:
Boxy Chairs With Spaces wkngd صندلی و جعبه فضایی
It’s always the recliners and sofas that take away the credit of being innovative in design. Footrests and tables all included! So the Puppo comes as a refreshing change coz it’s a simple chair that you could keep in your dorm (occupies less space), yet gloat that it’s a decent recliner with its footrest and storage-box-space! Just tinker a bit with it’s mechanics.
Designers: Mladen Milosevic & Vuk Dragovic
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Sit Down With a Nice One-Cable Espresso
Returning hero
Andrew Seunghyun Kim – whose been getting designs published with Yanko since 2007, presents this all-in-one screen. It’s the “Espresso” and it’s got one cable. It’s your TV, your multimedia collection, and your home internet display. Built-in DVD player, speakers, and wi-fi. Slots along the right side for plug-n-play add-ons. Available in 2 colors: single-shot or double-shot – for those of you who need that extra jolt. Then- touch screen remote- coffee cup touch charger for the remote.
Touch everything. The remote is reel-similar to what the modern iPod screens look like, along with the fluid covers n’ stuff. The bottom or back-side of the remote has a ridge to resemble the bottom of a coffee cup, which, incidentally, makes it nice to handle. And the coffee cup you see below is the charger for the remote. Just place it on top! Induction!
I encourage all Yanko users to comment on this project here, of course, then explore the rest of Andrew Seunghyun Kim’s designs here on Yanko :
Search “Andrew Seunghyun Kim”, then read Kim’s message board post over at
Core77 – kindly submitted to us by 울트라 쫄핑크 TaoNova. Thanks for all tips!
Designer:
Andrew Seunghyun Kim
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When Disaster Strikes At High Seas
At first I thought I would write a comedy of errors and make a fun post out of this, but regretfully it’s not funny getting shipwrecked or stranded in a dinghy at high seas. The chances of you and Brooke Shields making it to a marooned island are slim, so you may as well rely on your lifeboat, jacket and Reborn Survival Kit till a rescue team arrives. Packaged as a slim torch-like contraption, Reborn actually opens up to become a multi functional device.
What does the Reborn do?
It can transform to become a water collection and purification device, a solar energy stove, a dish antenna, a search light, and food heating equipment.
That’s a lot of functions packed into one thing, which is good coz then you know what to carry along with you when Titanic is sinking!
Designer: Xue Zhichao
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The Story About Drying Dishes
Many of you must be accustomed to a dishwasher but a better part of the world still hand washes the dishes. They either towel dries them or puts them up in racks for air drying. No doubt air-drying is a better method and to max this is the Trio Dish Drier. What’s special about this one, is that it’s got these cute little containers at the bottom of the rack that houses herbs. Essentially, the residual water from the washed dishes trickles down to the plants to water them. Nice!
Designer: Jordan Bailey
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The View from Book Hill نمایی از کتابخانه هیل
Welcome to a proposed extension of the Stockholm Public Library. This project, called “The Book Hill” is one that makes use of what were thought to be limitations in the landscape to create a building that not only holds books, but acts as a landmark for the city. These limits include the Observatory Hill that sits next to the site; giant, beautiful, too steep to be useful, and the library in place; the Asplund library, with its three detached annexes that separate the library into four.
The solution is a snake. A “continuous boulevard” from street level to Observatory Hill top. The most obvious perk of which is the glorious view of the city, not normally accessible without hovercraft or helicopter.
Books? The fiction section will remain in the Asplund Library, while the sciences will run in one continuous “string of pearls” in order from bottom to top along the “Media Boulevard.”
Walking along the Media Boulevard, the visitor will encounter an unfolding of various spatial and programmatic experiences as one passes by the Main Entrance, Auditorium Foyer, Library Café Institute of Children’s Books, Learning Zone and finally the Observatory Restaurant. All of it leaves an impression of a diverse and lively Public Library.
All this intersected by The Short Cut. An axis which acts as an access, the main entrance which exits into the Observatory Hill.
Designers: Jan Yoshiyuki Tanaka & Jakob Steen Christensen of
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Never Stop Folding Bikes Smaller دوچرخه تا شو
Perhaps you are a bike folding aficionado and/or industrial designer of bikes. Perhaps you’re familiar with the recent Yanko bike folding feature. (It’s still in the top 10 posts for the week!) Perhaps you wanted more? Here you go. It’s called the “IziBi” bicycle; it folds so much, so very much you wouldn’t believe it.
Single front and rear suspension. Frame made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer, direct drive system on the back made of aluminum alloy. Front half slides into back half, back half unlatches and folds across front half, pedals fold up. So many folds. So many.
Do you think it’ll hold together? Is this reasonably nice looking? Will people buy it? I’m looking at you, Paul, Migo, Carl, M.S.W., Jessica… You’ve tried the bikes, bought the bikes, and even tried to hustle the bikes.
Will it blend?
Designer: Renato Gschwend
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Foldable Bicycles: How Real Today? انواع دوچرخه ها
Perhaps you’d enjoy such a thing? Consider the following: not from the Twilight Zone, but for your approval: folding bikes. Seen any lately? At Yanko, we’ve had several. Lots of them have parallel features, the most common being the amount of collapsing the bike does. With this most recent inception into the folding hall, the “Antares Lift,” we get front stem, handle bars, seat, and back wheel, all folding up into the bike.
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Above: “Antares Lift” by Hideki Kawata. It’s folded shape is inspired by a tear drop and an orchid leaf. Single-speed drive, LED lights. To fold the bike: lift up center latch and let the wheels roll together to click.
Entered and logged…
In no particular order, the Yanko Bike Folding Archive!
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GrassHopper The Folding Recumbent Bike : 96 x 60 x 70 cm at it’s smallest size. GrassHopper The Folding Recumbent Bike
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A-Bike : Weight: 5.5 kg, folding time: 10 seconds, enclosed chain system (it’s like a secret bonus!) : A-Bike – Folding Bicycle by Daka Design
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GrassHopper (electric) : This version is an electric bike that can be folded down as well as charged, for those times when pedaling is crappy : This Grasshopper Folds and Generates Electricity
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Ready-to-eat by Corina Zuberbuhler
A frame serves as a fastener for three food dishes, which can then be safety transported to the desired location. Using Ready-to-Eat, you can eat whenever and wherever comfortably without a table. Simply place the frame on your knees and start eating.
Designer: Corina Zuberbuhler
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Gateway Building for Ras Al-Khaimah by Snohetta Studio
Sheik Saud and Rakeen of Ras Al-Khaimah has appointed the Norwegian architecture firm Snhetta the prestigious task of creating an iconic gateway building for the new capital city of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The approx. 300,000 m2 complex will contain a Congress Center, Exhibition Halls, Shopping Center, 5+ Star Hotel, 5 Star Hotel, and a 4 Star Hotel.
Architect:
Snohetta Via:
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Reflections – World-class Waterfront Living by Daniel Libeskind
Reflections at Keppel Bay presents the new face to world-class waterfront living with its stunning architecture by master architect Daniel Libeskind. A symphony of six glass towers and 11 villa apartment blocks will house 1,160 luxury homes along a 750-m shoreline, all of which enjoy unparalleled views of the waterfront, golf course and lush surrounds. The towers are of 24-storey to 41-storey heights while the villa blocks range from six-storeys to eight-storeys. Combining heroic forms and classical elegance, the towers rise spontaneously as beacons of light’ at the gateway of Singapore’s southern waterfront hub comprising Keppel Bay, Harbourfront and Sentosa. The towers are crowned with lush sky gardens on sloping rooflines, and are linked by sky bridges, providing pockets of open spaces and platforms with near 360-degree views of the spectacular surrounds.
Architect:
Daniel Libeskind [
Reflections ] [ Via:
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کامپیوتر برای موسیقی دانان توسط نیکولاس گونزالسSoundGate – Computer For Musicians by Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido
Hyundai QarmaQ – Recycled Plastic Skin خورویی بازیافتی ساخت هیوندای
Any concept vehicle with a name derived from the word the Inuit’s use for their dwellings made of Earth, whalebone, and animal skins is bound to be interesting. Hyundai Europe’s Design and Technical Center in Russelsheim, Germany partnered with GE Plastics in the Netherlands to create the QarmaQ a quirky looking Crossover Coup concept.
One of the QarmaQ’s key features is its innovative use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles to create a large portion of the vehicle’s skin. GE says the use of plastics, instead of more traditional metal and glass, gives the vehicle a 130-pound weight savings. That weight loss equates to 20 gallons a year savings in gas, not to mention fewer plastic bottles clogging up the local landfill. These numbers are nothing to scoff when you think of all the cars on the road.
The Green theme extends further as the vehicle use less paint and other chemicals that create massive amounts of greenhouse gases. Hyundai said some of the production techniques used in the QarmaQ could roll out beginning with the 2008 model year.
Design:
Hyundai [ Via:
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BrakeLok – Car Immobilization by Chris Ward
BrakeLok – Car Immobilization by Chris Ward
There is a large market for replacement handbrake covers, especially among young drivers who wish to customize their vehicles. BrakeLok is a handbrake cover which also offers a security solution, whereby the brake cannot be released without the removable button. Once fitted the user simply removes the button from the end of the cover when parked, and the system locks all linear movement, preventing the original button from being able to be pushed. The unit comes with several size fittings to be compatible with a wide range of cars. Click on picture 3 to see how it works.
Designer: Chris Ward
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SkyLift – Boarding System for Aircraft by Hannes Seeberg
SkyLift – Boarding System for Aircraft by Hannes Seeberg
Self-propelled boarding system for narrow, medium and wide body aircraft with a door height between 2200 and 5800mm. Designed for safety, speed and capacity, two elevators and a bridge provide best possible conditions of comfort for passengers. It helps solve problems that occur within passenger staircase – such as falls, bottleneck-effect, security risks and accessibility. All driving and aircraft approach operations are carried out with handheld control panel, ensuring the operator has total all-round visibility.
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Cario – Notebook On The Go by Anna Lopez
Cario – Notebook On The Go by Anna Lopez
A slim line, lightweight concept Notebook for the mobile worker. This notebook gives the user possibility to use it without a notebook bag. As Adjusted for use in car whilst stationary to enable a work space for the business commuter. Inside the car the notebook is designed to fit the interior, Once connected into the cars system, through the notebook the user has easy access to personalize the vehicles environment and settings to their preferences. The Notebook would only work in the car while driving as a HUD (head up display) with the projector, for a safe driving. And turn into workmode while stationary and adjusted on the drivers steering wheel.
Designer:
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Sprout Umbrella by Matthew Swinton چتر جدید
Sprout Umbrella by Matthew Swinton
The canopy and all the hardware is enclosed in the handle. A knob on its face turns to unlock the inner mechanism. The knob slides down the umbrella, forcing the canopy arms out through the top of the shaft. The flexible plastic arms are bent as the exit the handle, pulling the canopy with it. When fully open, the knob is turned back to lock the umbrella open.
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Compasses for Blackboards پرگار
Compasses for Blackboards
The large compasses traditionally used for blackboards in classrooms have suffered from being overly bulky. This makes them difficult to carry around and teachers have the problem keeping the center of a circle in a fixed spot while drawing circles with these oversized compasses. In light of this, we have addressed the problem of portability in the design of this product. Furthermore, the product will come with a digital display of readings for radii and angles so that teachers are able to draw circles and arcs more precisely with greater ease in classrooms.
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Hybrid Alarm Clock by Francesco Costacurta
Hybrid Alarm Clock by Francesco Costacurta
This alarm is a mix between a minute counter used in cooking and a normal alarm. There are two ways of use: like a normal alarm, selecting the hour of waking up or selecting the time of sleeping, 3-5-8 hours. To stop the alarm there is a big red button on the top. It is, at the same time, a pulsing light that can substitute the alarm sound to avoid to wake up other people.
Designer: Francesco Costacurta
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