Google's concept phone allows call canceling without lifting a finger

Eduardo Altamirano Segovia

As far as concept phones go, this one has got to be the most unusual amongst the ones we have seen in quite a while. For starters, it’s a Google Android Phone concept. And if that fact wasn’t enough to make it outlandish already, then its bizarre curved-like-a-vase front frame will have you cringing for sure.

What’s Innovative?
Featuring an OLED screen, the G-Phone concept also features an accelerometer that can detect the handset’s position to help you hang up a call or choose “yes-no” or “up-down” options without lifting a finger, which sounds a tad weird because the curved surface of the phone apparently is suppose to enhance the interaction of the screen’s center line with the user’s thumb.

About the Designer:
Eduardo Altamirano Segovia is an award winning professional 3D Artist and is currently based in Mexico City.

Now Blind can use Mobiles

With the rapid growth in mobile technology, mobile phones have become an essential tool of modern existence. And there is no reason that the visually impaired should remain detached from the necessary communication device. Designed by Siwei Liu, the “Tactility” is an innovative mobile phone that allows the blind to join the band of modern mobile phone users. As suggested by its name, the keyboard of the Tactility is based on Braille, so the visually impaired users could make or receive a call on their own. Based around a single function, commonly used for making and receiving the call, the special cellphone attaches a circular ring at the bottom, letting the users hang the phone around their neck for quick and easy accessibility.

Homemade submarine

Having seen a plethora of personal submarines, this one featured here may only seem as sewer outlet off a dirty little canal. But guys, there is a lot more to this than just what you see. This is a small homemade submarine resurrected by a 34 year-old Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli. A fully-functional submarine, this is fitted with a ‘periscope, depth control tanks, electric motors, manometer, and two propellers from old oil barrels.’ Done in two year for a cost of about 30,000 Yuan ($4,385), Tao tested the sub in a lake on the outskirts of Beijing, yesterday. Great work dude, you deserve some applause for this.

Nokia 3d

Nokia has been experimenting to deliver 3D phones for some time now, while we’ve seen a few 3D mobile phones here in our part of the world – there is still no real word as to when the well reckoned Finish manufacturer would actually have it out for us. For now let’s satiate ourselves with this recently revealed prototype device that flaunts a 3D stereo display.

Outfitting the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet with a special screen, made by a concealed third party manufacturer, the device is churned in to 3D display device, clearly differentiated by the naked eye – no special glasses required. This prototype display suggests Nokia’s potential to get 3D to our handhelds, perhaps the expenditure and content may be pulling it back for now.

PC studio

With the growing needs of modern education, technology has become an integral part of contemporary classrooms to complement conventional methods and compete with the best in business. Blending modern style with traditional structure, the “pcStudio” from Zukun Plan is common yet flexible school desks that molds conventional classrooms into a hi-tech computer lab, allowing teachers to control the class pace and organize content to all of the workstations in the classroom. Supporting a digital course structure, the pcStudio lets students download all the assignments onto a small flash drive, which they can install on their home PCs.

With latest developments of a particular subject or topic at their disposal, students can definitely enhance their knowledge and skills not only for examination but for job careers as well. Allowing students to display videos, web pages, text pages or notes, installed by the teacher, the pcStudio functions like a regular PC, enhancing their working computer skills without spending time and money for special computer courses. Moreover, the pcStudio comes with a touch sensitive display that permits the use of a stylus to write papers, solve math equations, highlight text and take notes, creating a digital classroom environment for students.