Mobile phone concept earphone

Mobile phone concept earphone

Kambala is a mobile phone concept designed by Ilshat Garipov which can be transformed into an earphone. With it, you do not need to carry your headset around or worst you forgotten to bring one out. So, with this Kambala, you can just pop the center piece and the earpiece clip pings out, clip it to your ear and you’ve got yourself a phone-earphone. It features multilayered Polymer which hosts all the electronic components is used in its construction and a continuous flexi-screen with plenty of sensors makeup the surface and capable of transmiting the image on the inside of the phone to the outside. More pictures after the jump.

Thimble for the Visually Impaired

Thimble for the Visually Impaired

I generally do not cover “concept” projects because I profoundly believe that all interactive prototypes should be made (and working to some degree). But this particular project, Thimble, a collaboration between Artefact and  Industrial Design Department at the University of Washington, is quite provocative and certainly worth sharing with the FT community.


Created by Erik Hedberg and Zack Bennet, Thimble is a wearable finger glove that gives the visually impaired access to ambient information. Watch the video narrative above to see how it is envisioned to work.

Sustainable Shopping concept helps you get ‘greener’ products

Sustainable Shopping concept helps you get ‘greener’ products

People are now becoming more aware of the climate change the world is currently experiencing. Many sustainable ideas are coming out, and now this sustainable shopping thing? The idea for sustainable shopping was developed through studying shopping patterns, informational needs, and psychological aspects. This handheld device will now compare nutritional values and the sustainability of the product you decided to buy. Aside from those functions, it can also be used as your shopping lists, a price checker, and a digital map as it overlays your grocery store’s layout and plots out everything that is listed on your shopping lists. With these features, this device will surely saves your time when shopping.

New OLED display

New OLED display

One of the main advantages of OLED is that it can be flexible—so flexible, in fact, that it can be wrapped around a pencil. Taking 2007′s .3mm prototype Sony’s made a new one just 80μm-thick.
That’s about ten times the size of a red blood cell, or just a tiny bit thinner than a single hair. The whole OLED measures 4.1-inches in size, and has a 432 x 240 resolution and a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1.
It’s another world first, boasting that it’s the first time an OLED panel can still stream video while being rolled up (around a cylinder with a 4mm radius) and stretched.

Future Desktop Computer Concept

Future Desktop Computer Concept

This 3D hologram video just makes me want to have a desktop like this.
When you’re not using it, it works as a desk lamp.

Bring the black curtain down so that the hologram can be seen more clearly in front of you.
There are tiny projectors installed, giving off 3D hologram in front of the curtain.


A browser window can be resized by actually “pinching” and dragging the tab at bottom right.

It would be fun if a document could be made as if you were using a typewriter. The curled paper hologram comes out of the keyboard.

Touching the 3D objects would be really fun. Dragging, throwing, resizing, etc., but crushing paper to dispose it would be the most interesting.