Palm Peak – Sprint 4G Design

The iPhone 4 and Palm Pre met half way and the Palm Peak concept was born with the aid of designer Steve Lipson. Before we detail the device, we’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and wish the best of luck to the designers who helped us create this wonderful website.

Palm Peak is supposed to be the thinnest sliding phone, with a mere 10mm thickness level. The handset is made from a block of brushed aluminum alloy, making the Peak a very resilient and elegant piece of machinery and also avoiding any possible signal issues. The display on board is a LED IPS one with a 3.8 inch diagonal and a 960 x 640 pixel resolution.

At the back there’s a 5MP camera with LED flash and support for 720p HD video capture. Palm Peak’s battery provides 45 hours of audio and 11 hours of video playback with a single charge. This is a webOS 2.0 device we’re dealing with, one that comes with a Swype keyboard, 4G WiMAX and 3G EVDO support.

There’s even a price tag imagined for the device, but remember that THIS IS NOT A REAL PHONE! Only a design, concept, whatever…

Samsung Mimeo: Innovative cellphone concept

Mimeo is an innovative cellphone concept that enables the user to make calls and send messages in a more interactive way. The writable bended body of the concept features a signal light on top of the phone and an OLED touchscreen for efficient functioning. On the bottom part, it contains a call button and a write button that enables the user to make calls and make the surface writable. The end contains the stylus which acts as a pen nib when writing with thecellphone. Aside from intuitive and convenient use, the cellphone can become a great icon of style by featuring four different themes for the surface, oak, azure, roseate and breeze, when the phone is not in use.

Kinetic Cellphone Concept for Nokia

British designer Jeremy Hopkins took cellphones to a new level and created unique concept of the phone. His phone called Nokia Kinetic converts digital information into kinetic energy and make receiving a call, text message of email more visual. It has an electromagnet at the base which allow to shift the weight and keep it in an upright position. User checks the screen of the phone and if he wants to miss a call he should simply give a phone a tap, causing the phone to fall back down again and return back to standby mode. "Aimed at the business user, Nokia Kinetic is an unique phone that responds to notifications trough movement".

Water-based Cellphone AQUA

A very futuristic and very original mobile phone was offered by South Korean designer Bon Seop Ku from Samsung company. The device is called AQUA and it looks like it really consists of water. Designer found his inspiration on a wet table, where he thoughtfully drew different figures by his finger. As a result he got a concept Samsung AQUA together with a graphical user interface and water-based display. It is assumed that the user can remove icons from the panel by simply rubbing the display with their hands. The cellphone runs on liquid type battery that apart from being eco-friendly supports the transparency of the screen as well.

Nokia E-Cu concept phone!

London designer Patrick Hyland has come up with a rather zany conceptual handset, borrowing the Nokia name for his design. What makes the Nokia E-Cu (E is for environment, while Cu stands for Copper) so special, you ask? Well, it can be juiced thanks to available heat in your pocket. This is made possible since an integrated thermogenerator will convert heat from any source into electrical energy in order to juice up the handset, regardless of whether it resides in your pocket or is placed on top of a radiator. Does this mean we can now toast our phones over the fireplace while sipping on hot chocolate and munching on marshmallows?

Keeping a phone charged can be a pain, especially at the end of the day when you’re out of the house and dealing with a sliver of battery life. If only a phone could stay charged up all day without you ever having to think about it.

That’s the idea behind the Nokia E-Cu concept, a slim phone that uses an integrated thermogenerator that converts heat into energy. That means it could get a slight charge while sitting in your pocket against your leg and an even bigger charge while placed on top of a radiator.

Just how realistic is this? Probably not so realistic that you’ll see this in stores next year, but I don’t think it’s so out of the realm of possibility that we’ll never see something like this implemented. At least I hope so, as there are few things more annoying than being out and about with a dead cellphone.

BlackBerry Empathy phone concept

Daniel Yoon created one sweet, sweet BlackBerry concept, the Empathy Phone that comes with a mood ring, as shown below. This social networking-focused device delivers biometric data regarding the user’s emotional state, relying on the mood ring accessory.

Imagine sharing your feelings not directly, but via the ring we mentioned. How cool is that? BlackBerry Empathy connects the user straight away to sites like FaceBook and MySpace for quick messaging and status updates. The device also comes with proximity sensors, allowing you to detect the emotions of the folks nearby through an emotion chart with a visual timeline.

Empathy uses movable keys, a translucent tactile keyboard and a flexible OLED display, plus a HUD (heads up display). The keypad on this phone can change color according to the user’s emotions, that are sensed through messages, phones calls and biometric sensors. Does this new take on social networking scare you, or do you find the concept appealing?

MacBook Air 11.6" Smaller Size Apple Product

Apple Inc is set to launch a new 11.6-inch MacBook Air, an Intel Core i-series ultra-low voltage processor and a new iPod Touch in the second half of 2010.

The new generation of devices will be manufactured by Quanta Computer, according to a senior analyst at Digitimes Research.

The 11.6-inch MacBook Air will feature “an even slimmer and lighter design than the previous-generation models.”







* Smaller form factor. Particularly, it will become an 11.6 incher coming from the smallest macbook yet which is 13.3 inch.
* It will use an SSD card instead of the conventional hard-drisk drive (HDD). This was said to be the secret ingredient to make the form factor of the new macbook smaller.
* Since it used an SSD card, its rebooting time will be faster; comparable to Apple’s handheld units (e.g: iPod, iPhone and iPad)
* It may use another type of processor rather than the usual Intel brand. The leak suggests Apple may do a partnership with AMD to launch a newly customized processor for this device, thus making the form factor even smaller.
* Now that the size is smaller and it will use an SSD and AMD type of processor. There’s a big chance that this device will even become cheaper as well.

MacBook Air 11.6

Most Unusual and Coolest Keyboards

Personal computers by nature are ever-evolving. Not only does the technology constantly advance, but so too do the personal touches that people add to their own systems. Customization is one of the cornerstones of the PC, and that alone is very important to the modern PC user.

Listed below are 10 of the Coolest and Most Unusual Keyboards available to PC users. Some of them have been developed by actual manufacturers in order to make the computing experience much more convenient and productive, and others have been created by people who just want to make their computers look a little cooler.

Virtual Laser Keyboard

This virtual keyboard is actually just a laser emitter that creates a light pattern in the shape of a keyboard, and then detects the movements of your fingers in order to determine what you are typing.

Techie Trends Wireless Flexible Keyboard

The Wireless Flexible Keyboard by Techie Trends is a dust & water proof flexible keyboard that can be easily rolled up and carried with you anywhere you go.

Wrist-mounted Keyboard

This keyboard attaches to your wrist with a strap on brace so that you can type text message style with one hand

SafeType Keyboard

The SafeType keyboard is designed to be more comfortable and ergonomic than a standard keyboard.

Maltron Ergonomic Keyboard

This keyboard is designed to naturally fit the shape of the hands and the varying lengths of the fingers in order to prevent stress injuries.

TypeMatrix

The TypeMatrix takes the keys of a standard keyboard and rearranges them in a modular (and supposedly more logical) arrangement in order to optimize the typing process.

Stowaway Ultra Slim Bluetooth Keyboard

The Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard is a compact, portable keyboard that you can connect to your PDA or Blackberry device for convenient full-size typing.

Luxeed Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard

This keyboard has fully illuminated keys and allows you to program the specific colors and frequency at which they light up.

MyKeyo Organizer Keyboard

The MyKeyo is a fully functioning keyboard with a flip up top that reveals internal storage space for storing small personal items and supplies.

DX1 Customizable Keyboard

This keyboard allows you to arrange the individual stick-on keys in any arrangement on the included input tray that you desire, and if you grow tired of it you can easily remove and rearrange them again.

Steampunk-style Keyboard

This is a steam punk-style ergonomic keyboard fabricated from brass. It also features a built-in track pad.