Fio
Fio is a champaign glass with 4 horizontal lines marked on the glass. When making a toast, make the liquid inside at one of the lines so that the sounds when the glasses meet are in harmony. Making a toast will be much more fun and I’m sure we’ll clink the glasses more than twice.
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Don’t Move My Cheese
It may help you find your wine glass easily.
By biting off a part of the cheese, you can make it more original.
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Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired
Speech balloons in comic books show very well how the characters speak. If we could instantly visualize how people speak, wouldn’t it be nice for the hearing-impaired? It means they can SEE our voices.
Stressed words are rendered larger than those spoken less loudly.
Arrows of the balloons show from where it’s spoken (of course).
A scream is shown in a balloon with jags.
Imitation sounds are also rendered, but with other colors than spoken words.
When spoken to from out of the screen, it shows the words with the direction the voice is from.
A pair of glasses with the same functions could replace the device if we could figure out a good way not to block visual information.
Also visit the other series of this gadget.
Part1:”Future of Internet Search: Mobile version”
Part2:”Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications”
Part3:”Look at What You Don’t See Through Glass”
Part4:”Future of Mobile Search for Diet”
Part5:”Future of Mobile Search- Search Beyond Time”
Part6:”Future of Mobile Search- Power of Visualization”
Part7:”Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1″
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Glass Pencil Sharpner
It’s a small pencil sharpner made of glass.
The converging lens at the top gives you a good look at how much the pencil has been sharpened.
And wouldn’t it be fun if the pencil crumbs looked floating in the air? Some people make even art out of pencil crumbs, so I think keeping them nicely would be much better than disposing right after the pencil is sharpened.
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Lupa
“Lupa” is loupe in Spanish, Czech, etc.
It’s fun to design a mobile phone based on a certain concept.
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Glassy Glassy
The previous mobile phone concept seems popular, so I made a few more designs with double glassy layers. Your fingerprints would have to be cleaned off so often, but I want to have one like these.
It was used in the TOTOTA official near future mobility life short movie!
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