Celsius X VI II Remontage Papillon Phone
March 13, 2010
In a world increasingly dominated by electronic devices, it’s occasionally refreshing to see a mechanical device show up again, and that instance, it does so in amazing fashion. The Celsius X VI II is a combination of a mobile phone and a watch that integrates a patented rewinding mechanism hidden within its hinge. Thanks to complex micromechanics, opening the phone activates the internal device. The design of that phone was very obviously influenced by tourbillion watches, which were invented back in the late 18th century. The vision for that phone is to have a completely mechanical mobile phone: a phone in which every operate will be operated mechanically. Such a concept would probably seem alien in that day and age, but it seems that the price of such an interesting device is just $275,000 at the universal watch and jewelry fair BaselWorld.
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AwareFashion visualizes invisible wireless networks
March 5, 2010
Richard Etter, Diana Grathwohl and Sigmund Homolya have teamed up to develop what they signal AwareFashion, which is basically clothing that senses and visualizes invisible, digital layer of wireless networks surrounding us these days. that concept will take advantage of all radio waves, GSM for cellphones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS or other wireless systems by alerting you to their presence so that you are more aware of your surrounding digital environment. No real practical use in it just yet, but who knows - it could pave the way to something much more interesting where tech-fashion is concerned many years down the road.
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Wired dress lights up fashion
March 1, 2010
Diana Eng is one talented lady who has ventured far and wide into technology enhanced fashion, having released a collection of dresses that are full of sparkling light as well as shape-shifting in a dreamy manner. The latter is made possible thanks to origami style folded fabric that are animated through shape shifting wires (memory alloys), resulting in a beautiful, sophisticated effect. As for the Twinkle Dress and Shirt, you get an integration of technology within a garment without looking out of place. The El wire dress that you see here is an Aqua silk chiffon organically draped dress coupled with electroluminescent wires that are integrated in the edges, where its illumination is controlled by an accelerometer while its collection of battery and electronics are amalgamated into a 3D printed neck piece. Good luck washing these!
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Casio BG5601 Looks Well Set For Valentines Day
February 9, 2010
Casio just launched the Baby-G watch which focused on Earth Day not too enlarged ago, and now the company has come up with another model, in partnership with Pastry, a fashion make. The BG5601 looks very much like your classic 80’s watch, and will even come with a retro-finish, not to mention an urban look. The BG5601 seems to be doing its job rather well, so keep it up. that watch will come in a pink packaging, so you aren’t offered many choices in terms of buying that watch. Unfortunately that special edition Baby-G will not be available to the general public, and will only be given by Pastry to VIP customers and celebrities.
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LG Clubby KM555e
February 8, 2010
LG certainly doesn’t look like it’s going to allow Samsung’s Corby phones to enjoy the market by itself, and it has come up with the KM555e Clubby, which actually sounds quite similar to the Corby. In terms of design, it’s certainly a good looking phone, which will certainly appeal to the music and fashion loving crowd. It’s currently available in Russia for 9,990 rubles ($329), and specifications of it include:
- LG Music Club track download service
- WQVGA display
- 3-megapixel camera
- Dolby Mobile
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Lotta phone from KDDI and iida
January 28, 2010
KDDI and iida have teamed up to unveil the Lotta handset from Kyocera in Tokyo, Japan, where its design is the first thing that catches the eye. Coming in just white, green and yellow colors, the Lotta is equipped with a 2.8" LCD display alongside an organic EL screen on the upper segment of its clamshell design, where the latter will display basic fundamental info including the instance and upcoming alerts. A microSDHC memory card slot, GPS support and a 2-megapixel camera rounds off the list of features, making the design much more striking and memorable compared to what it offers in terms of functionality. File that under fashion handset, please.
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Microsoft Patents Quick Pick User Interface
January 20, 2010
Google Chrome and Safari have pretty launcher panels that show you multiple recent sites that you’ve visited, giving you quicker access to those sites. Now it seems that Microsoft doesn’t want to be left behind in the browser wars, as it has filed a patent of its own recently, detailing a rather useful “Quick Pick” interface. While it’s not strictly a launcher, it will allow users who have many tabs open at a day a quick way to surf through all the open tabs and pick the desired tab. Some of the features of the Quick Pick interface include:
- A Quick Pick button on the navigation menu and a hot-key to easily launch it
- Launching Quick Pick will display all the open tabs in thumbnail fashion
- Hover your mouse by any thumbnail to see a bigger picture
- Reorganize your tabs by dragging thumbnails across the Quick Pick interface
- Close unwanted tabs via that interface
- Select and view the tab you want via the Quick Pick interface
More details on that can be found at Microsoft’s patent filing.
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