
Is this what the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft announced yesterday will produce? New pictures of a concept of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 phone have emerged on the web, potentially showing what Nokia could bring to the OS.


CES isn’t just about the product announcements, but also a showcase of new and innovative forms of technology that could come soon. Like this one – a company called Tobii has today announced the Tobii Gaze interface, which lets you your eyes to maneuver your computer.

Is this what the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft announced yesterday will produce? New pictures of a concept of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 phone have emerged on the web, potentially showing what Nokia could bring to the OS.

Meeting people from another country is great and all, but we all want to converse in our own language – I might prefer English rather than speaking in Japanese as I am not as fluent when speaking the latter language. Well, Samsung’s concept is attempting to bridge that language barrier that claims to have real-time translation of the conversation.

Concepts challenges the traditional boundaries of many things – and we have previously covered those who challenged designs in watches, batteries, and even your kitchen appliances. But what about the smartphone? A Danish student, Kristian Larsen, has done just that with an Android-powered, three-screen smartphone.

Ever needed a battery at the last minute? Well, one can now be in your pocket at all times. A new concept found by Yanko Design has merged the AA battery and a USB drive, allowing you to power your devices and store files with ease.

Razer has partnered up with Intel to bring a brand new concept – something we love to see at CES. Called the Switchblade, it is an Atom-powered laptop that not only redefines the keyboard for laptops, but also redefines gaming on laptops.

Yes, that does look cool. A researcher, in an attempt to advance the state of artificial intelligence in computers towards a human-esqe approach, has built a shoulder-strap computer simply using a cheap pear of video glasses that were hacked to a fit one lens of the glasses.

Yes, what you are seeing is a brain, and while we left you pondering with a brain cupcake for zombies, turns out it will protect your noggin as well. Don’t worry, it is all fake. Yes, this is just an image of a brain that has been stuck on a motorcycle helmet. There are also other styles in the series, including the Black 8 ball, someone’s bald head, a bum, a breast with pierced nipple, a tennis ball and a cracked walnut.

With all the Apple news this week, why not distract ourselves with concepts – because we know we love the darn things. Electrolux has a design competition going on and has announced its eight finalists yesterday, with one of the finalists coming from Australia (well, more precisely, Melbourne).

Believe it or not, this is actually a watch. No joke. Called the Zonal – and yes, I don’t even know what that means exactly – it is essentially a watch that depicts time in red segments of a squircle, or a rounded square. The top right one tells the hours, while the bottom left tells the time in increments of five. The bottom right tells the one minute increments of that five minutes.

A new prototype from a group of German companies could have found a replacement to the touchscreen – using hand gestures? Called the Gesture Cube, the prototype will be able to translate hand movements that are close to the screen (or screens) into commands for the device.

We love concepts here at TECHGEEK.com.au, and this one is something that I really do want. This is the HTC Evolve, a 10-inch tablet running the Google Android OS, and features a stylus, another touchscreen pane for applications and the usual USB and headphone jacks.
Over here, we love concepts, mainly for their novelty value because they won’t likely be manufactured for the mass market, but they push the boundaries of what we deem normal; and we have posted on the blog an iPod wristwatch and a faceless watch, but a bracelet?
It’s brilliant, yet its obviously not something Apple would make. This is a concept of what one Japanese designer thought the iPod shuffle should be like, and it looks like a iPod nano wristwatch – without the widescreen. What’s weird is that it is totally practical, as wearing it on your wrist is kind of better than wearing it on your shirt – just make sure you don’t look like a metrosexual.