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<-120x240 Vertical Banner - left->The Red Dot Design Award registering period is ending on January 18 and we are anxious to see the final list of participants and the winners, but we’ll have to be patient until then and in the mean time to take a look at last year finalists.



I want to present you the winner of Best of the Best Design Concept in Entertainment category of last year event, which is the E-Paper from Chocolate Agency Chinese company.
Unlike the LG Phillips E-Paper known to you from CES 2008, Chocolate E-Paper is still a futuristic concept but more spectacular than the one existent.

Why? Because it is lighter, thinner, suppler and cheaper to produce, but it also saves more power.
With such characteristics, Chocolate E-Paper would be used in creating different shapes for everyday use products like round devices to be worn as bracelets on your wrist and computer or TV displays.



In bracelet shape, this E-Paper would be adjustable in length and will also have removable inserts, while a kinetic power generator would be a long and reliable energy source for it.
Chocolate Agency proposed three basic uses of their E-Paper and these are: E-Paper MP3/MP4 player bracelet, E-Paper GPS bracelet, and E-Paper Digital Photo Frame cube.

Imagine an E-Paper display in the shape of a bracelet on your wrist that could play your favored music anytime, anywhere, allowing you to browse pictures and videos with the touch of your fingers!
What if it would have GPS functions displaying an interface accessible through motion, having accelerometers, and allowing you to modify the options and explore the map virtually just by waving the hand around?

If we wouldn’t need either a GPS or the MP3/MP4 player, at least we’d like to have a digital photo frame in the shape of a cube that would allows us to play with the fingers through the interface’s options and build new graphical interactions that change in time based on the multiple slideshows technology.



This glass cube that you see in the video would be capable of displaying three images at a time that interact with the play of reflections, and is made of a material with aluminum compound, while three sides are the E-Paper displays.
It would be powered by a built-in battery with an induction dock.

When two cubes are one after the other, the adjacent sides connect themselves forming a panoramic image display.
Imagine now what a large and beautiful image you would obtain by putting 50 cubes together!

Now you might want to check this extraordinary P-Per cell phone concept from the same designers team.

It seems that in the near future we’ll be able to use special software that will help us understand better our dogs.
The specialists are working on this project right this moment are those from ELTE University in Budapest, Hungary, lead by ethologist Csaba Molnar.




Its complex software is still in developing phase and after the preliminary tests it proved it can analyze dog bars in order to translate them to humans, based on the dogs’ emotional reactions in six situations: the dog being alone, when it sees the ball coming, when it fights or plays, the moment of encountering with a stranger, and when it is just walking.

The computer software managed to distinguish the emotional reactions in 43% of the cases, while humans accomplished that in 40% of the cases.

The researchers team is working to improve the software and algorithms but I personally couldn’t base my decisions concerning dogs, on a software created by people who are seeing the dogs’ communicating system that simple.

Hoverit is a company headquartered in UK that introduced revolutionary furniture built by hand with extraordinary precision and the capability o defying the gravity.
How? With the use of magnetic forces for the bed part and its base.




The Launger does not bring only an innovative and spectacular design built in CAD software but it is also very comfortable and practical due to the built-in permanent magnets that help in muscular and back problems and even headaches.



Hoverit says that The Lounger gives you the feeling of floating on a cloud, and on the other hand, it is easy movable due to the small castor wheels.

This is a limited edition and the persons interested in ordering one model can customize it or get the clear acrylic version through which they can see every component.



The levitation is produced by the magnets in the base and on the lounger.

Yes there are plenty of computer cases models to choose from, but none is as cool as this one.



Coming from the designer Ross McBride it is a new concept of desktop PC case that personifies the unit and gives you the impression that it is always serious and thinking at something deep.
We are used to personalize our room, phones and the desktop, so why not to try it with the cases too.

Check the picture and tell us if you would get one of these.

This is a cool concept designed by Lee Young Don as a clothespin but meant to measure the electromagnetic field of power cables when attached.




With such a device you could easily monitor your electronic equipments on the built-in LCD display, and know how much power they are consuming even when they are not in use.
This is also the way in which it recharges itself.



The data is displayed in laymen terms and shows information about the amount of power used to allow you understand how much power you are wasting and realize how to save it.