Sign Language Interpreter
The camera captures the motion image of the speaker’s hand gesture. It translates it into an oral language and gives out the translated words.
(the camera capturing the image)
You can pre-choose what kind of voice you’d like it to speak in. I’ll pick up tat of George Clooney’s. 🙂
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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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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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Wild Fold
With Samsung Flexible OLED, how we fold a mobile phone could be limitless especially if it could work as a touch screen.
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Hot Topic Or Not
Is the post you’re reading hot? Then, there must be lots of people watching it.
If not, there are few.
It would be more fun if the characters are pointing at the often clicked areas in the browser.
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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!
Double Layered Transparent Screen
It would give a feeling of “depth”, I guess.
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Oops!
I just noticed I’ve forgotten to include one image in the post “My Dream Mac #2 (Macbook Touch Concept)”. Sorry!
Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1
I’m pretty sure companies like Ikea would quickly start to use this device this way if it became really available.
Also visit the later 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”
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Looking Glass for iPhone: App Integration
Mail, iCal, phone, Map with GPS, Google Docs, etc. etc. with real time scan search
See also #1 of this concept.
Looking Glass for iPhone
Minority Report-like data exchange like this?
“Looking Glass” concept has been introduced in the following posts:
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”
Future of Mobile Search- Power of Visualization
Visual aid for any book. It means any book can be a picture book.
If it could be wirelessly in sync with your mobile phone or other mobile devices, visualized data exchange could be done like Microsoft Surface, but with this device, you wouldn’t have to stick with 2D.
Also visit other posts 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”
Part7:”Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1″
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Future of Mobile Search- Search Beyond Time
This is the fifth post about this gadget.
Getting data of a weather forecast, maybe this might be possible.
When you wonder what the scene you’re looking at was like in the past, you can see it.
This might be off-topic, but it would be nice if it could work in sync with Google Maps like this.
Also visit other posts 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”
Part6:”Future of Mobile Search- Power of Visualization”
Part7:”Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1″
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Desktop Holography #1
the real “desktop help” with the images projected in the air
Maybe you can ‘touch’ the projected images: move, rotate, expand/shrink, etc.
I don’t know if/when this can be realized, though.
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GPS Maglite for Emergency
GPS installed maglite which works as an image projector
Projects a map with the user’s location and other information.
The generator part can be detached from the body when used by two people. It’ll be easier to make the light stable.
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Future of Mobile Search for Diet
Mainly because I don’t usually care about nutrition when I eat, this kind of function would be helpful for people like me.
Also visit other posts 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”
Part5:”Future of Mobile Search- Search Beyond Time”
Part6:”Future of Mobile Search- Power of Visualization”
Part7:”Future of Mobile Search: Virtual Shopping #1″
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Look at What You Don’t See Through Glass
Here are some more examples of how you might be able to use the device I introduced before.
(“Future of Internet Search: Mobile version” and “Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications“.)
You can even see flowers that are not actually blooming.
There are a lot more ideas drawn in my Moleskine, so I’ll introduce them later.
Also visit other posts of this gadget.
Part1:”Future of Internet Search: Mobile version”
Part2:”Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications”
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″
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications
I think the following ideas should enhance the functionality of the device I introduced. Many applications like these will be developed that have never been possible.
Indoor guide
Works in a building, airport, station, hospital, etc.
Automatic simultaneous translation
Search keyword
Helpful when you want to find out a word from a lot of text
Also visit other posts of this gadget.
Part1:”Future of Internet Search: Mobile version”
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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Turn your iPhone into a desktop
I was amazed to see how Microsoft’s Play Anywhere works!
That technology could also be applied to something like this, I guess.
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Putting on more makeup than yesterday or not?
What if your mirror remembers how exactly you looked like when you had a perfect makeup?
Capture your face so that you can compare with it later.
With a few webcams, you can see yourself from back, right and left.
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Future of Internet Search: Mobile version
(Followed by a previous post “Future of Internet Search“)
This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.
Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the building.
Well, it doesn’t have to be a building, but it can be any object you see. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc. etc. But as a designer myself, I hope it’s able to tell me a name of a font of the type I see, the size, color (in RGB), and so on.
It’s got a scanner built in, so you can use it this way when you want to check the meaning of a word in the newspaper, book, magazine, etc.
It would be much easier to read a real book. You can use the dictionary, wikipedia, thesaurus and anything else available on the web. What do you think?
I won the red dot design concept award for this.
Also visit the later series of this gadget.
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″
Part8:”Speech Balloons for the Hearing-Impaired”
See also the iPhone version of this concept.
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iPhone-sized handy scanner
Would be another helpful bridge between physical and digital world. The touch screen would make this kind of device work much more intuitively.
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