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axxxr
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Here are some of the concept designs for Gadgets of 2014
Wrist-top hub features:
flexible OLED screen
thumbprint scanner
camera lens
navigation and control buttons
microphone
Training assistant features:
Lens: A hi-res still and video camera also performs retina scans for security authentication.
Supplemental power: MEMS-kinetic cells integrated into the housing capture energy from body movement.
Smart screen: The edge-to-edge display with NXT clear-audio film functions as both loudspeaker and next-to-ear speaker. Users navigate with touch-sensitive surface and customizable buttons or via voice commands.
Accessories: Advanced Wi-Fi allows users to stream content to other devices such as armbands, earbuds, or large screens.
Life recorder features:
Piezoelectric screen: Pulling the touchscreen out halfway activates phone mode: A numeric keypad blisters up on the display. The screen can also be fully extended for watching movies.
Search interface: The SensEye’s filtering system looks for what, where, and when info.
Personal navigator
Multimedia handicam features:
OLED Display: Labels and icons shift according to mode, from filming to editing to videoconferencing.
Telephony: In telephone mode, the caller uses wireless earbuds (not shown), and a photo or videostream of the other party appears here.
Jog wheel shuttle: This controller detaches from the body, allowing it to be comfortably used.
Pull tab: The flexible screen serves as a camera viewfinder and display for text messages and video calls. The screen can also be pulled from the canister like a window shade for on-the-fly computing, emailing, Web browsing, and even video editing.
Security: Biometric-sensing film automatically recognizes the user, ensuring that no one else can use the device. This authentication can also alert the phone network to the user’s whereabouts.
Microphone: Software-controlled directional mike array can be used for targeted audio capture.
Lens: Rotating optics switch the lens focal length between normal, macro, fish-eye, and prismatic.
Upload Presets: Layout preference cards slip into Edit Decision List (EDL) expansion bays. These cards set image and text autoformatting preferences for Web uploading.
Sticky cam:
Sold in six-packs, these cheap wireless lenses can be stuck on any surface and feed video back to the CanCam. Each contains an integrated digital imager and optics, a printed antenna, and a zinc air battery – all mounted on a flexible bed with an adhesive backing.
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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Cool I like futuristic devices
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axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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It will be interesting to see if we ever get to see these designs in these shapes and form factors?
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masseur
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the flexible OLED is the one I've been waiting for and I suspect from what I have read that we'll see that quite a bit sooner than 2014
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axxxr
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Just the thought of a flexilbe OLED phone as a wrist band really excites me.and the possibilites useing this technology are endless.
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Gigs
Joined: Jan 19, 2004
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Its going to take 10 years to converge a pda and cheese grater?
Wow we have fallen behind :/
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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omg... thats the future?
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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as long as i can get my tea in the over from my ride on a monorail sorted ill be happy chappie until that time, i will hae to suffice.
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EastCoastStar
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From: orlando fl US
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haha im glad im not the only one who noticed the cheese grater lookin thing! hahaha
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axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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I don't know about you guys but i see more than a passing resemblense here: 
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parsnip
Joined: Oct 26, 2004
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From: England
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lol i want the sticky cams 
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paulbang
Joined: Apr 01, 2005
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From: Bangalore - starry eyed surpri
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@all i want a phone which manages to tap into other phones so i can call using their accounts for free and they get charged. The phone should be able to make multiple connection taps so i can free calls all the time. The only problem is- what happens when everyone gets this phone
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Rocky B.
Joined: Jan 15, 2005
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From: Leicester, England
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Do you know they're trialling power less LCD screens in the UK. Soon all the paper slips on supermarket shelves will actually be LCD screens which don't need power to retain their shape. Now THAT is the future.
They are already on the way to making digital paper btw, as in flexible screens. I think it's sony doing it actually.
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DJcreamz
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
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On 2005-06-12 19:06:27, paulbang wrote:
@all i want a phone which manages to tap into other phones so i can call using their accounts for free and they get charged. The phone should be able to make multiple connection taps so i can free calls all the time. The only problem is- what happens when everyone gets this phone
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when this happens moorons like you who steal from inocent people will go to prison
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axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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The IDSA (Industrial Designers of America) announced the winners of their 2005 IDEA awards.
The photo shows the Nike eyeD Device Singularity 2014 that got silver in the Design Exploration category.
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Posted: 2004-05-06 19:12
