Tomorrow's Coolest Tech 17
conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on some of the Coolest Products currently being developed. It includes a product from Plantronics Bijoux, a headset that looks like jewelery. The earbuds fit snugly and the speakers hang around the neck. "The set is as stylish as any pair of earrings and a matching pendant." Another product making the list, ultrathin MicroMedia Paper as a basic media-player."
Speaker? (Score:2)
It's a telephone headset: the speakers are in the earbuds, it is the microphone that hangs down.
Re:Speaker? (Score:1)
Re:Speaker? (Score:1)
(I'm kidding. I just can't resist a big fat meatball over the plate.)
Nokia Strapup phone bracelet downright Laputian (Score:4, Informative)
-- Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
Some more cool vaproware (Score:3, Interesting)
Planned: 2025
Philips Momento reinvents "random access" video (Score:2)
The team at Philips Design came up with the ide
Great Gadgets (Score:1)
Is it just me, or does the 'snowglobe' video device conjure up images of "Help me Obi-Wan"?
Re:Great Gadgets (Score:2)
You can almost feel the ball to drop to the floor, break and recall thought to be long-erased family pics of your evil uncle, posing with your wife and daughter whom he later murdered.
Philips Illusion home-entertainment system (Score:3, Funny)
For example, if you want to increase the volume, gesture upward. If you want to fast-forward a DVD, wave it to the right. The faster you move, the quicker your action will be.
Until someone throws an electric pencil across the system's on/off sensitive airspace. Lose the wand and go with hand gestures and substitute "Harry Potter" with "Zaphod Beeblebrox".
Last slide (Score:1)
Looks bulky (Score:1)
I can't wait for smellovision and... (Score:3, Funny)
Headset (Score:3, Funny)
Are buttons really that hard? (Score:2)
And the braclet thing- not only is that a recipie or mistaken messages, it'd get you blacklisted from my phone on the first time.
Re:Are buttons really that hard? (Score:1)
How about something long the lines of :
"Adaptive Motion-based Detection for Multi-User Collaborative Controls"
(with application to television viewing)
VapidVapourVare (Score:1)
Yeah thats right don't confuse with existing prototypes, beacuse Lunar Design's MicroMedia Paper is in the does not yet exist stage only.
Flexiable/foldable electronic paper, capable of full color video has been in the concept stage for a long time.
The other products look damm fine though.