Our wallets are slowly making their way onto our smartphones. A number of mobile wallet and payment apps are now available, making it easier to purchase every thing from our daily coffee to our latest fix of comic books through our smartphones. Artefact, a product design studio based in the U.S., believes that there is a better place for our […]
Concepts
Concept Sunday: The Soviet Union’s Lenin tablet of 2019
What if the Soviet Union had not collapsed in 1991? What if the Communist state had decided to get into the business of manufacturing its own smartphones and tablets? That’s the scenario proposed by deviantART‘s George D’araanka who has come up with what a Soviet-built tablet might look like in the year 2019. The Soviet Union was not known for […]
Concept Sunday: BlackBerry Classic concept
BlackBerry will launch the BlackBerry Classic later this year. The new smartphone, formerly known as the BlackBerry Q20, will very much be a bridge device between BlackBerry’s older generation devices and its new BlackBerry 10 ones. Announced at Mobile World Congress, the QWERTY keyboard device with a 3.5-inch display will bring back the classic function keys, ‘Menu,’ ‘Back,’ ‘Send’ and […]
Concept Sunday: Apple-branded iBeats headphones
Apple this week announced plans to acquire both Beats Music and Beats Electronics for US$3 billion. While the acquisition is more than just about headphones and speakers, Apple is likely to integrate the Beats Audio brand into its own product lines. Could we see a line of iBeats accessories in the near future? That’s what CURVED/labs, the company that also […]
Concept Sunday: Google Nexus Play entertainment system
The Google Nexus may be on its deathbed but as this concept suggests, there could still life in the program in showcasing what Android could do beyond the usual smartphone and tablets. The Google Nexus Play is billed as an Android entertainment system that is part gaming console and part TV controller. Looking like many gaming controllers, it incorporates a curved […]
Concept Sunday: Apple iWatch by Rolex
Apple is widely expected to jump into the wearables space later this year with a smartwatch of its own. Dubbed the iWatch, expectations are high that Apple will unveil a device that stands head and shoulders above the current crop of devices. What if it employed Rolex to help with that ambition? That’s the idea behind the iWatch by Rolex […]
Concept Sunday: The circular Sero smartphone
Let’s face it, smartphones are stuck in a bit of design rut. As much as manufacturers try to distinguish their devices one from another with the use of different materials, chamfered bezels, and various other small touches, most smartphones today all use a candybar slab form factor and share much in common. Flexible displays and other components promise to break […]
Concept Sunday: Another look at the Apple iWatch
The Apple iWatch is one of the most anticipated devices of 2014. Apple has yet to confirm such a device but it has hinted a number of times that it will enter the wearable space in the near future. Recent rumours have suggested that Apple will unveil two iWatch devices, one with a 1.3-inch flexible AMOLED display and another with […]