Lenovo may be rethinking the tablet computer. Again. The company that brought us the Yoga convertible design and the Yoga Book virtual keyboard seems to have a new idea for a 2-in-1 tablet called the Lenovo Blade. According to a description at the iF World Design Guide Award website, the Blade is a multi-purpose tablet […]
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Razer’s three-screen gaming laptop would probably get awful battery life (but it’s still awfully impressive)
Razer is showing off a concept for a gaming laptop with three displays at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It’s called Project Valerie, and it may never come to market: not all the crazy concepts Razer unveils ever make it to market. But there’s a working prototype of Project Valerie that can be used […]
WhammyPhone prototype: Bend your smartphone to make music
Researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab unveiled a flexible smartphone prototype earlier this year that didn’t just have a screen that could bend… it uses the bending motion as a form of input for doing things like flipping through eBook pages. Now the Human Media Lab is going one step further with the introduction […]
Voting is open for ZTE’s crowd-sourced gadget contest (Project CSX)
ZTE plans to launch a new product in 2017, but the company doesn’t actually know what it’ll be yet. That’s because the Chinese consumer electronics company is running a competition where users vote on a set of concepts submitted by other users. The crowd-sourced gadget campaign is called Project CSX, and last month the list […]
ZTE’s CSX crowd-sourcing finalists: eye-tracking phone, robotic glove, underwater VR headset
ZTE has been asking the public to help it come up with ideas for new products, and now the company has announced three finalists from its Project CSX effort to crowd-source product design. Those finalists include a phone designed to be easy to use without touching it, thanks to an eye-tracking system, a smart glove […]
Turing’s “Outer Blueprint” for phones with ridiculous features
Against all odds, and following numerous delays, the folks behind the Turing Phone started shipping handsets this summer. The company’s first phone is a 5.5 inch smartphone with a Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB of RAM, and Sailfish OS software. It’s designed for security and has no USB port or headphone jack, presumably because those present vulnerabilities […]
Sony unveils Future Lab T interactive smart table concept
Sony introduced a Future lab program in March, to showcase prototypes of hardware concepts that may or may not eventually come to market. The company is now taking applications for beta testers who want to try out the Future Lab N wearable “voice interaction system” for hands-free interactions with a phone. And now Sony has unveiled a […]
Cubimorph concept shows a modular, shapeshifting smartphone
Some companies may be developing modular smartphones with swappable components. But a team of researchers at the University of Bristol’s Bristol Interaction Group have a different idea for modularity: they’ve developed a phone that changes shapes depending on what you’re using it for. The concept is called Cubimorph, and while it’s not a real phone […]
Doppio dual-screen smartwatch concept (video)
Two screens are better than one (sometimes) when you’re using a desktop computer. But what about a laptop? You can get secondary displays for those too. Let’s go smaller: what about smartwatches? Maybe one day you’ll be able to get a dual-screen version of that too. Doppio is a smartwatch concept that incorporates two displays […]
FlexCase concept gives smartphones a second, flexible ePaper display
There have been a number of attempts in recent years to give smartphones a secondary display. Yotaphone’s smartphones have a color screen on one side and an E Ink screen on the other. And the InkCase line of products attempt to deliver a similar experience by building an ePaper display into a smartphone case. But the […]