Articles tagged with: video story
Posted in Designer, Entertainment, Music on 1 July 2008

Now you can consider the possibility of playing music without touching any random musical instrument. No, am not referring to Pacer Suit that convert your moves into music but the case in point is AirPiano. Standing in no competition to air guitar, it has its own unique features. Designed by designer Omer Yosha, its musical interface enables you monitor software instruments just by stirring hands in the air. It is a virtual medium of keys and faders, each dispensed with MIDI letters and all set to be activated. It’s a disgrace that no one can be taken gravely with these things.
Jump over to witness the virtual form of soothing music.
Via GearFuse
Posted in Computer, Designer, Elite Find of the Day, Technology on 30 June 2008

Whilst months back the evolution of interaction table marked a new revolution with little knowledge that soon it would have to face competition with Interactive Scape, a 58-inch touch surface. The latter one is a replica of the Microsoft Surface table that created much of a buzz but is not available for sale until now. But that doesn’t mean that the existence of interactive products is only till news and doesn’t meet reality. Microsoft TouchWall retailed at $100,000 inked a neat deal at Neimann Marcus. It is a clear indication of the fact that there is no restraint to the production of interactive surface and filthy-rich tech-lovers as well.
Similar to Microsoft offerings’, Interactive Scape allows you to compute touchscreen-style by stirring things around its 1080p touchscreen with your fingers and it is also capable of transferring data to and from cell phones via Bluetooth. A glimpse at the table would make you realize its screaming beauty with its Corian surface slapped with various shades. The German makers behind it are demure about its cost, but the pricey factor attached to it is an indicator that it will first feature at retail point-of-sale applications. Well, the growing technology impact and production of products that stands beyond our imagination claims that Gen X would be using these touch-screen interactive forms on daily basis.
If it fails to convince you then free feel to design your own interactive table via Cubit or bring home the voice recognition table designed for conferences by Kage Roi.
Jump after Read more to enjoy the interactive affects of the Scape:




Via Dvice
Posted in Shopping, Speakers, Spirits, Travel on 28 June 2008

The inviting headline is incomplete to build a mystery around its nature of being hi-tech, hence forcing you to read it further. If you have a heart for wine and are engaged in a field job or for that matter have planned holiday for a weeks-time then this Party-A-Cargo can be your savior. The cargo is inclusive of an attached Kegerator, Sound System & Subwoofer. With kegerator escalated on the hips of the Party-A-Cargo, it is a blessing for all the party animals. This fully autonomous tailgate kegerator cargo can stock up to 160 cans satiating your booze desire and bringing an on-the-way music vibes into the environment.
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The locking flap ensures the security of your stock and is available in three different units.

The device features a Kegerator (Jockey Box), CD/stereo, 2 - 6″x9″ speakers, 12-volt power adapter, 10″ subwoofer, Sirius satellite radio, integrated battery charger and all that with a spill over of mere $3,795 whist the medium one and standard one is retailed at $3,395 and $2,895 correspondingly.
Posted in Designer, Fashion, News, Products, Shopping on 24 June 2008

Now the umbrella designers’ are geared up to alter its assumed purposeful nature by moving a step ahead in building its tough appeal. Can you ever imagine an Umbrella as weapon that assures your safety? Something that is hard enough to break a nut into two? Well, now you have every right to think so as the discovery of unbreakable umbrella would fit in every such wild requirement of yours’. Designed fir the self-defense purpose, it is a substitute of a baseball bat in terms of its toughness. On first thought, the impression was it might be resistant to coil but does that serve our purpose?
No, then a deep study made us realize that like everything it has also some substance that can make your life much comfortable via this elite product. It looks like an ordinary umbrella so dare not the passerby tries to play a trick with you and you are ready to give him the shock of his life via an umbrella punch! Priced at $180, the umbrella is light enough to carry and weighs two pounds. It’s legal to own it.
Unbreakable Umbrella is in action here:
Via BoingBoing/ Dvice
Posted in Computer, Technology on 22 June 2008

Crazy about horror movies and with spare time in hand, few German scientists from Technical University of Braunschweig have designed the Nerdiest brain-computer interface ever. It doesn’t intend to place electrodes on your head and looks a large metal helmet packed equipped with sensors that can perceive your brain movement through your locks. They assert that the mechanism is efficient enough to organize an RC car and their next initiative would be to install it in wheelchairs and prosthetics.
You may ink a neat deal with it to scare you little ones coming come Halloween.
Check out the video:
Via Golem
Posted in Computer, Designer on 22 June 2008

If those floating cubic cases and king tut inspired PC casemod fails to interest you then how about keeping fingers on straight geometrics and bring home a spherical PC Mod. Seemingly a travelling Pac-Man, the Orb is an out product of modder’s wish to develop a Pacman or motorcycle-helmet that can open a screen driven by a motor. Doing away the conventional forms of LEDs and windows, its visor is formed using two quarter-spheres, one slightly smaller than the other. Jump over for video:
They are adhesive together at a distance of 5mm of space that supports water cooling system. Great job NQ! The standing PC on its own legs seems to have come from future to break few heads and would guzzle things the minute it staggers ahead.







Posted in Elite Find of the Day, Hotels, News, Technology on 21 June 2008

Flagging the novelty proportion, many latest restaurants in U.K. are revising their way of taking orders. Shunning the need of menu card, they are now in a mood to go hi-tech and are welcoming the accessibility of touchscreens that keep the diners engaged while they hang on for their orders. The e-menu form address a higher level of sophistication along with fast and efficient service with no burden on someone standing on your head to take order. And if you are afraid the germs attached to screen, the Israeli-based restaurant Frame (video) assures that a small number of methodical swabs suffice to provide a germ-free screen. But yes, like everything, it also has few drawbacks. There is a possibility that you might be served with a wrong order if customers happen to make errors while placing order.

Nevertheless, functional or not, this new system in dining is inviting eyeballs and is a reason enough to indulge in some grand service.
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Via Newlaunches/BlogWired/ SelfServiceWorld
Posted in Designer, Electronic Products, Home Decor, Luxury on 21 June 2008

Lately, a brand new Comcast center was opened in Philadelphia and is touted as the tallest building in the city. But this is not all about the center. Located in the lobby of Comcast Center, the Barco video wall consists of 10 million pixels and sports six dx-700 led digitizers, seven encore video processors and three matrixpro routers. Measuring 83.3ft x 25.4ft, the formation of this designer and world’s largest LED screen costs $22 million (inclusive of design, build and install). I wish I could install one in my living room.




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Via DeputyDog
Posted in Automobile, Concept, Eco-friendly on 20 June 2008

With automobile tycoons already battling with the production of automobiles that maintains equilibrium between space and economy, CLEVER or Compact Low Emission Vehicle is a concept vehicle from the Technical University of Berlin that expresses a new meaning to the urban Transport. Running on compressed natural gas, this three-wheeled vehicle (two rear wheels and one front) is 3 feet wide and can accommodate two persons (good opportunity for working couples). The computer-monitored hydraulic rolling system offers an ultimate driving experience with zero lateral forces at sloping position of up to 45degree, likewise riding a bike. Making a fuel utilization of 188 miles per gallon, this 10 ft long, 3.3 ft wide and 4.4 feet high vehicle is ever comes into production then it would cost you $10,000.
Currently, it has to work on its concept so that it can have an edge over its competitor’s creation of Carver One (video below) that has hit UK market at a cost of £27,654.



Via Tuvie/ Inhabitat
Posted in Designer, Furniture on 18 June 2008

Very often we have positioning weird, cool, trendy, steam punk gadgets that dominate your mind with an aim that they harness the nature power adding to our lifestyle. Then be it solar form, wind energy or eco-friendly gadgets, here we came across an Executive desk that’s a critical construal of ‘Kinetic energy at work’. Designed by Dale Mathis, the fully functional Executive Desk offers an absolute blend of art and technology portraying the kinetic interpretation of a desk well harmonized with each accessory right from the keyboard and mouse trays.
A glimpse at the desk in motion would make you realize the expertise of the designer and skills invested into the designer creation that makes it bag the title of the technological object de art. Be the first one to install into your office cubicle by shelling out $21,000.
Via BornRich/GadgetsBlog/ BoingBoing



